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Events
1279 BC – Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River – Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans.
1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool s gold, used to pave streets in London.
1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1678 – The Godiva procession through Coventry begins.
1759 – The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolutions adopted in the Province of North Carolina
1790 – Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
1813 – In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) – Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade.
1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the English. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian s 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1902 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
1910 – Creation of the Union of South Africa.
1911 – R.M.S. Titanic launched.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an integral part of the Republic of China, whose sovereignty therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1931 – 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1941 – A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
1943 – Zoot Suit Riots begin
1961 – Republic of South Africa created.
1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1970 – The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
1981 – Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It was one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1985 – 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1985 – Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) became a Schedule I drug in the United States.
1987 – Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station starts broadcasting in Greece.
1997 – The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick.
2008 – Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.
2010 – Space Shuttle Endeavour will have it s last launch and will be retired.

Births
1443 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1469 – Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
1535 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
1557 – Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
1613 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
1640 – Michal Wisniowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
1656 – Marin Marais, French composer (d. 1728)
1732 – Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg (d. 1812)
1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1754 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
1773 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (d. 1853)
1801 – Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
1818 – John Albion Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
1819 – Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
1835 – Hijikata Toshizo, Japanese military leader (d. 1869)
1838 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
1852 – Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
1857 – Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
1860 – Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
1863 – Francis Younghusband, British explorer (d. 1942)
1872 – Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944)
1882 – Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
1883 – Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
1885 – Alois Hudal, bishop, helped Nazis escape trial (d. 1963)
1887 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 – Michel Kikoine, Belarus painter (d. 1968)
1892 – Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968)
1892 – Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician (d. 1934)
1894 – Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
1898 – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
1901 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1905 – Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993)
1908 – Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
1908 – Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000)
1909 – Aurore Gagnon, French Canadian victim of child abuse (d. 1920)
1911 – Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
1914 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
1916 – Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1997)
1921 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (d. 2006)
1921 – Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer
1922 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
1923 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
1930 – Clint Eastwood, American film director and actor
1931 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 – Shirley Verrett, American soprano
1932 – Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
1933 – Henry B. Eyring, LDS apostle, son of award-winning chemist Henry Eyring
1935 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1938 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer (d. 2003)
1938 – John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1938 – Peter Yarrow, American folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
1939 – Terry Waite, British humanitarian
1940 – Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator
1941 – Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Sharon Gless, American actress
1943 – Joe Namath, American football player
1945 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (d. 1982)
1945 – Bernard Goldberg?, American journalist
1946 – Ted Baehr, American media critic
1946 – Steve Bucknor, West Indian Cricket Umpire
1947 – Junior Campbell, British musician and songwriter (The Marmalade)
1948 – John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
1948 – Duncan Hunter, American politician, 2008 presidential candidate
1949 – Tom Berenger, American actor
1949 – Nancy Shade, American soprano
1950 – Gregory Harrison, American actor
1952 – Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic)
1953 – Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor
1954 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (d. 2000)
1954 – Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer
1956 – Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk)
1955 – Tommy Emmanuel, Australian Guitarist CGP
1957 – Jim Craig, American hockey player
1959 – Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver
1960 – Greg C. Adams, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Chris Elliott, American comedian
1961 – Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Lea Thompson, American actress
1962 – Corey Hart, Canadian musician
1962 – Sebastian Koch, German actor
1963 – Hugh Dillon, Canadian musician and actor
1963 – Viktor Orbán, Hungarian politician
1963 – Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003)
1964 – Leonard Asper, Canadian businessman
1964 – Scotti Hill, American rock guitarist
1964 – Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.)
1965 – Brooke Shields, American actress and supermodel
1966 – Jeremy Hotz, Canadian stand-up comedian
1966 – Nick Scotti, American actor and singer
1967 – Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
1967 – Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality
1967 – Kenny Lofton, American baseball player
1967 – Vampiro, Canadian professional wrestler
1972 – Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 – Sarah Murdoch, English model
1972 – Karl Geary, Irish actor
1972 – Dave Roberts, American baseball player
1973 – Dominique Van Roost, Belgian tennis player
1974 – Chad Campbell, American golfer
1974 – Zsolt Erdei, Hungarian light heavyweight boxer
1974 – Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
1976 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
1976 – Matt Harpring, American basketball player
1977 – Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
1977 – Theodoros Baev, Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player
1977 – Debbie King, English TV presenter
1977 – Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1977 – Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player
1977 – Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
1977 – Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete
1977 – Joel Ross, British disc jockey
1977 – June Sarpong, British television presenter
1977 – Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
1977 – Petr Tenkrát, Czech ice hockey player
1980 – Craig Bolton, Australian rules footballer
1980 – Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1981 – Jake Peavy, American baseball player
1982 – Jonathan Tucker, American actor
1983 – David Hernandez, American singer
1983 – Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer
1983 – Reggie Yates, English television presenter
1984 – Nate Robinson, American basketball player
1984 – Jason Smith, Australian actor
1985 – Ian Vouyoukas, Greek basketball player
1986 – Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
1986 – Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
1986 – Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress
1988 – Hope Partlow, American singer

Deaths
1246 – Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England
1349 – Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297)
1408 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)
1410 – King Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)
1495 – Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415)
1558 – Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)
1567 – Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (b. 1522)
1594 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
1680 – Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650)
1740 – King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1688)
1747 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1799 – Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
1809 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
1809 – Jean Lannes, French marshal (b. 1769)
1831 – Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
1832 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (b. 1779)
1846 – Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
1847 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)
1848 – Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)
1908 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (b. 1839)
1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (b. 1821)
1931 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
1945 – Odilo Globocnik, Austrian nazi (b. 1904)
1957 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
1960 – Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882)
1960 – Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
1961 – Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
1962 – Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874)
1967 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
1970 – Terry Sawchuk, hockey player (b. 1929)
1972 – Walter Freeman, American physician (b. 1895)
1976 – Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1977 – William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)
1978 – József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
1983 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
1986 – Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank), American artist (b. 1918)
1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1987 – John Abraham (director), Indian film director
1993 – Spuds Mackenzie, American advertisement dog
1994 – Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (b. 1909)
1996 – Timothy Leary, American professor and LSD advocate (b. 1920)
1997 – James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (b. 1905)
1998 – Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (b. 1912)
2000 – Tito Puente, American musician (b. 1923)
2000 – Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2001 – Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 1907)
2004 – Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941)
2004 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2006 – Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator (b. 1970)
2006 – Miguel Berrocal, sculptor (b. 1933)
2006 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2006 – Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances
The Godiva procession.
World No Tobacco Day.
Syaday (Discordianism) (5th day of the season of Confusion, honors Apostle Sri Syadasti).
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint Petronella
Nuclear Energy day in Argentina, Commemorates the foundation of the CNEA

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Events
1416 – The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 – Hundred Years War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
1434 – Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Borek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1635 – Thirty Years War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed.
1642 – From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson s wife of bigamy.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern Memorial Day) is observed in the United States for the first time (By Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic John A. Logan s proclamation on May 5).
1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
1876 – Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1879 – New York City s Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1879 – An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
1922 – In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
1925 – In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
1941 – World War II: Germany captures Crete.
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
1942 – World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened today in Auckland, New Zealand.
1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1961- Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic.
1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1967 – At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.
1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1969 – Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1972 – In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1982 – Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany s admission in 1955.
1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.

Births
1010 – Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1423 – Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1623 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
1653 – Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
1713 – Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1718 – Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
1719 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
1814 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1819 – William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
1820 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
1845 – King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1858 – Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1871 – Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
1875 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
1878 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1879 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
1881 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1882 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
1886 – Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1892 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1895 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
1896 – Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977)
1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
1901 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
1902 – Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)
1903 – Countee Cullen, American writer (d. 1946)
1906 – Bruno Gröning, German mystic (d. 1959)
1907 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
1910 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
1910 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist
1912 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
1918 – Guadalupe Pita Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1918 – Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
1919 – René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1920 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
1922 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
1926 – Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
1927 – Clint Walker, American actor
1928 – Agnès Varda, French director
1928 – Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
1930 – Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930 – Robert Ryman, American painter
1932 – Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist
1934 – Aleksei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut
1934 – Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach
1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor
1936 – Ruta Lee, Canadian actress
1937 – Harry Statham, American basketball coach
1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor
1939 – Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
1940 – Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 – James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1943 – Gale Sayers, American football player
1944 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
1945 – Norman Eshley, English actor
1947 – Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian golfer
1948 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1949 – P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
1950 – Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
1950 – Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
1951 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
1951 – Zdravko Colic, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
1951 – Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
1955 – Jake The Snake Roberts, American wrestler
1955 – Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
1958 – Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
1958 – Ted McGinley, American actor
1958 – Steve Israel, American politician
1958 – Ted McGinley, American actor
1959 – Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
1961 – Harry Enfield, British comedian
1961 – Bob Yari, Iranian-born American film producer
1962 – Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
1962 – Tonya Pinkins, American actress
1964 – Wynonna Judd, American country singer
1964 – Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
1965 – Billy Donovan, American college basketball coach
1966 – Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1967 – Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans)
1968 – Zacarias Moussaoui, French convicted terrorist
1968 – Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author
1970 – Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress
1970 – Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
1971 – Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1972 – Manny Ramírez, Dominican Republic baseball player
1972 – Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
1973 – Leigh Francis, British comedian
1974 – Cee-Lo, American musician
1974 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1974 – Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
1974 – Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
1974 – David Wilkie, American ice hockey player
1975 – Brian Fair, American singer
1975 – Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
1976 – Radoslav Nesterovic, Slovenian basketball player
1976 – Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
1976 – Margaret Okayo, Kenyan athlete
1977 – Akwá, Angolan footballer
1977 – Rachael Stirling, British actress
1978 – Eric Searle American Musician
1978 – Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1979 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1980 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer
1981 – Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
1981 – Andrey Arshavin, Russian Footballer
1981 – Blake Bashoff, American actor
1981 – Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
1981 – Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
1981 – Remy Ma, American rapper
1981 – Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
1982 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1984 – Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
1984 – Jordan Palmer, American football player
1989 – Kevin Covais, American singer
1990 – Dean Collins, American actor
1992 – Andrew Rymer, American Blogger

Deaths
1159 – Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 – King Ferdinand III of Castile
1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian (b. 1379)
1431 – Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 – Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 – Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop
1574 – King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
1576 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
1696 – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 – Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)
1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b. 1694)
1865 – John Catron, United States Supreme Court Justice
1868 – Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823)
1901 – Victor D Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1912 – Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
1925 – Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1939 – Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1941 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 – Georg Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
1953 – Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1955 – Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)
1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)
1961 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)
1964 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian nuclear physicist (b. 1898)
1964 – Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 – Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
1975 – Michel Simon, French actor (b. 1895)
1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1975 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1980 – Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1981 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
1993 – Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914)
1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader
1994 – Marcel Bich, French industrialist (b. 1914)
1994 – Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
1995 – Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b. 1911)
1995 – Bobby Stokes, former English footballer (b. 1951)
2000 – Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2000 – Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
2003 – Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
2005 – Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
2005 – Tomasz Pacynski, Polish writer (b. 1958)
2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2006 – Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
2006 – David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
2008 – Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)

Holidays and observances
Region Day of Canary Islands
Geologist s Day (in Brazil)
Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday).
United States – Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May).
Saint Ferdinand III
Saint Isaac of Dalmatia
Saint Joan of Arc
Anguilla – Anguilla Day; Commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution which took place on May 30th, 1967.

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Events
363 – Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 – Battle of Legnano, in which the Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1414 – Council of Constance.
1453 – Byzantine-Ottoman Wars: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih capture Constantinople after a siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1660 – English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthday – see below) is restored to the throne of Great Britain.
1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
1727 – Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1780 – Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton massacres Colonel Abraham Buford s continentals allegedly after the continentals surrender. 113 Americans are killed.
1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1864 – Emperor Maximilian of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1867 – The Austro-Hungarian agreement known as Ausgleich (the Compromise) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph is crowned King of Hungary.
1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 – Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1903 – May coup d etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky s ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.
1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
1919 – Einstein s theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington s observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje founded
1924 – AEK Athens FC is established on the anniversary of the siege of Constantinople by the Turks.
1932 – World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin s White Christmas, the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
1948 – Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
1950 – St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia .
1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay s (adopted) 39th birthday.
1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1968 – Manchester United win the European Cup, the first English Club to do so.
1969 – General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1972 – 26 people are killed and dozens more injured when three Japanese gunmen open fire on crowds at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff ever to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: At the European Cup final in Brussels, Belgium, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses after Liverpool F.C. fans breach a fence separating them from Juventus F.C. fans.
1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1988 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1990 – Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian SFSR by the Russian parliament.
1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
2001 – International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
2004 – The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2004 – The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22.
2005 – France resoundingly rejects the European Constitution.

Births
1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian general (d. 1632)
1627 – Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer and Princess(d. 1693)
1630 – Charles II of England (d. 1685)
1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
1716 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (d. 1800)
1722 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (d. 1773)
1736 – Patrick Henry, American patriot, statesman, and orator (d. 1799)
1773 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter (d. 1895)
1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
1863 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
1880 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
1892 – Alfonsina Storni, Argentine writer (d. 1938)
1893 – Max Brand, American author and war correspondent (d. 1944)
1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born writer and film director (d. 1969)
1897 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
1903 – Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
1905 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor (d. 1994)
1906 – T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
1907 – Hartland Molson, Canadian businessman and senator (d. 2002)
1911 – Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film star (d. 1989)
1913 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1914 – Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1915 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1917 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1920 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1922 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect, major contributor to musical modernism (d. 2001)
1924 – Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (d. 1999)
1926 – Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
1927 – Jean Coutu, Quebec businessman (Jean Coutu Group)
1932 – Richie Guerin, former basketball player
1932 – Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1937 – Charles W. Pickering, American judge
1937 – Irmin Schmidt, German musician (Can)
1938 – Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner
1939 – Al Unser, Sr., American race car driver
1940 – Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
1942 – Pierre Bourque, Former mayor of Montreal
1942 – Kevin Conway, American actor
1943 – Robert W. Edgar, Theologian
1945 – Gary Brooker, musician (Procol Harum)
1946 – Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
1947 – Gene Robinson, American ecclesiastic
1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor
1948 – Nick Mancuso, Italian-Canadian actor
1949 – Brian Kidd, English footballer
1950 – Rebbie Jackson, American musician
1951 – Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
1953 – Danny Elfman, American musician (Oingo Boingo)
1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
1955 – John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin
1955 – Sut Jhally, Kenyan-born American educator
1955 – Ken Schrader, American race car driver
1956 – LaToya Jackson, American musician
1957 – Jeb Hensarling, American politician
1957 – Ted Levine, American actor
1958 – Annette Bening, American actress
1958 – Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
1959 – Rupert Everett, English actor
1959 – Adrian Paul, English actor
1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American musician
1962 – Eric Davis, American baseball player
1962 – John D. LeMay, American actor
1963 – Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1963 – Tracey E. Bregman, American actress
1963 – Ukyo Katayama, Japanese racing driver
1963 – Lisa Whelchel, American actress
1967 – Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
1967 – Mike Keane, Canadian hockey player
1969 – Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1970 – Natarsha Belling, Australian news presenter
1971 – Eric Lucas, Quebec professional boxer
1972 – Közi, Japanese visual kei artist
1972 – Stanislas Renoult, French singer
1973 – Anthony Azizi, American actor
1973 – Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1973 – Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1974 – Myf Warhurst, Australian radio presenter on Triple J and TV personality on Spicks and Specks
1974 – Marc Gené, Spanish Formula One driver
1975 – Melanie Brown, English musician and actress
1975 – Anthony Wall, English golfer
1976 – David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1976 – Caçapa, Brazilian footballer
1976 – Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player
1976 – Yusuke Iseya, Japanese model and actor
1977 – Antonio Lebo-Lebo, Angolan footballer
1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
1978 – Adam Rickitt,British/New Zealand actor
1979 – Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
1979 – Arne Friedrich, German football player
1979 – John Rheinecker, Major League Baseball player
1979 – Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan (d. 2004)
1981 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
1982 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
1982 – Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
1982 – Matt Macri, American baseball player
1983 – Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
1986 – Dylan Postl, American professional wrestler
1986 – Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican/American fashion model
1986 – Valy Hedjasi, Afghan singer
1987 – Alessandra Toreson, American actress
1987 – Kelvin Maynard, Dutch football player
1989 – Danielle Riley Keough, American actress
1990 – Dave Morton, American guitarist
1991 – Kristen Alderson, American actress

Deaths
1259 – King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
1379 – King Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
1405 – Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of France
1425 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
1453 – Constantine XI Palaeologus, last Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)
1500 – Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer
1546 – David Beaton, Scottish Catholic cardinal
1593 – John Penry, Welsh Protestant leader (b. 1559)
1660 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician (b. 1615)
1691 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
1790 – Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (b. 1718)
1796 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (b. 1720)
1814 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
1829 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
1847 – Emmanuel, marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (b. 1766)
1866 – Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
1868 – Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
1882 – Vasily Perov, Russian painter (b. 1833)
1892 – Bahá u lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá í Faith (b. 1817)
1896 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
1903 – Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (b. 1864)
1903 – Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
1910 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
1911 – William S. Gilbert, English dramatist (b. 1836)
1917 – Kate Harrington, American teacher, writer and poet (b. 1831)
1919 – Robert Bacon, American politician (b. 1860)
1935 – Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
1939 – Ursula Julia Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic saint (b. 1865)
1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
1946 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, Commandant of Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905)
1948 – Dame May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
1951 – Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891)
1953 – Man Mountain Dean, American professional wrestler (b. 1891)
1958 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1970 – John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
1972 – Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (b. 1902)
1972 – Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1973 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
1977 – Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
1979 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress and studio founder (b. 1892)
1979 – John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (b. 1916)
1982 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
1983 – Arvids Pelše, Soviet Latvian statesman (b. 1899)
1989 – John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
1994 – Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b. 1912)
1996 – Tamara Toumanova, Ballet star and actress (b. 1919)
1997 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (drowned) (b. 1966)
1997 – George Fenneman, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
1998 – Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate (b. 1909)
2002 – Mildred Benson, American writer (b. 1905)
2003 – David Jefferies, British motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
2004 – Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (b. 1912)
2004 – Samuel Dash, American Congressional counsel (b. 1925)
2005 – George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
2005 – Hamilton Naki, South African medical assistant (b. 1926)
2006 – Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
2006 – Jacques Bouchard, Quebec advertising executive (b. 1930)
2007 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
2007 – Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian Politician (stroke) (b. 1927)
2007 – Posteal Laskey, American convicted murderer widely believed to be the Cincinnati Strangler of natural causes (b. 1938)
2008 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
2008 – Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
2008 – Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances
Bahá í Faith: Ascension of Bahá u llah
Nigeria: Democracy Day
United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day.
Blessed Adhemar
Saint Erwin
Saint Maximinus of Trier
Saint Theodosia
Saint Alexander of Alexandria
Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers

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Events
585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1774 – American Revolutionary War: the first Continental Congress convenes.
1830 – President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1863 – American Civil War: the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts, to fight for the Union.
1892 – In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1918 – The Democratic Republic of Armenia declares its independence.
1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic declares its independence
1926 – 28th May 1926 coup d état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.
1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1934 – The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 – Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik. This is the first allied infantry victory of World War II.
1942 – World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
1952 – Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park s Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
1952 – The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1955 – Henry Bolte becomes Premier of the state of Victoria.
1961 – Peter Benenson s article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1970 – The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
1974 – Northern Ireland s power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1978 – Second round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta. The election is won by incumbent Sangoulé Lamizana.
1979 – Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and is not released until August 3, 1988.
1987 – A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa, falls to the Ethiopian People s Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ? of total population.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton s former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions.
1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci s masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
1999 – Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a dramatic car chase.
2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq s interim government.
2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

Births
1140 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (d. 1207)
1371 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
1524 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1574)
1582 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (d. 1662)
1588 – Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
1641 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath (d. 1693)
1660 – King George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (d. 1754)
1692 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (d. 1752)
1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
1759 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet (d. 1852)
1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
1818 – Pierre Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)
1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
1837 – George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
1837 – Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (d. 1919)
1858 – Carl Rickard Nyberg, Swedish inventor (d. 1939)
1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist (d. 1917)
1878 – Paul Pelliot, French sinologist (d. 1945)
1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian activist (d. 1966)
1883 – Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (d. 1978)
1884 – Edvard Beneš, Czech politician (d. 1948)
1886 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
1888 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953)
1888 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1942)
1889 – Richard Réti, Austrian-Czech chess grandmaster (d. 1929)
1892 – Sepp Dietrich, German SS officer (d. 1966)
1900 – Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1908 – Ian Fleming, English author (d. 1964)
1909 – Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
1910 – T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
1910 – Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
1911 – Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
1911 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (d. 1986)
1912 – Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
1915 – Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (d. 2001)
1916 – Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
1917 – Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)
1918 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 1990)
1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
1922 – Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
1923 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
1923 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor and politician (d. 1998)
1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
1931 – Carroll Baker, American actress
1936 – Betty Shabazz, American civil rights activist (d. 1997)
1936 – Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
1938 – Jerry West, American basketball player
1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican musician
1941 – Beth Howland, American actress
1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 – Terry Crisp, Canadian hockey coach
1943 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American politician
1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer and actress
1944 – Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
1944 – Gary Stewart, American singer (d. 2003)
1944 – Billy Vera, American actor and musician
1944 – Faith Brown, British actress
1945 – John Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1945 – Hunter Patch Adams, American doctor
1945 – John N. Bambacus, American politician
1946 – Satchidanandan, Indian poet
1946 – Skip Jutze, American baseball player
1947 – Sondra Locke, American actress
1947 – Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Egyptologist
1947 – Lynn Johnston, Canadian cartoonist
1949 – Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1950 – Ian Bradley, British writer and academic
1950 – Jim Harris, American professional wrestler
1952 – Russell J. Wintner, American film executive
1953 – Arto Lindsay, American guitarist and singer
1954 – John Tory, Canadian politician
1954 – Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d. 1988)
1955 – John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1955 – Mark Howe, American ice hockey player
1956 – Julie Peasgood, British actress
1956 – Jerry Douglas, American dobro player
1956 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1980)
1957 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
1957 – Ben Howland, American college basketball coach
1959 – John Morgan, British etiquette expert (d. 2000)
1960 – Mark Sanford, 115th Governor of South Carolina
1961 – Roland Gift, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
1962 – Brandon Cruz, American actor
1962 – James Michael Tyler, American actor
1963 – Houman Younessi, Iranian-born scientist
1963 – Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
1964 – Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer
1964 – Christa Miller, American actress
1964 – David Baddiel, British comedian and television presenter
1964 – Phil Vassar, American country music singer
1965 – Chris Ballew, American musician
1967 – Glen Rice, American basketball player
1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer
1969 – Mike DiFelice, American baseball player
1969 – Justin Kirk, American actor
1970 – Morgan Fox, Canadian model and 1990 Playboy playmate
1970 – Ian Cashmore, English actor and paranormal investigator
1970 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1971 – Isabelle Carré, French actress
1971 – Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater
1972 – Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
1972 – Guidoni Junior Doriva, Brazilian footballer
1974 – Alicia Minshew, American actress
1975 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
1976 – Liam O Brien, American voice actor
1976 – Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
1976 – Glenn Morrison, Rugby League Player
1977 – Jeremy Borash, American professional wrestling announcer
1977 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
1979 – Jesse Bradford, American actor
1979 – Ronald Curry, American football player
1979 – Joeri Jansen, Belgian athlete
1979 – Monica Keena, American actress
1980 – Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
1980 – Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
1981 – Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
1981 – Daniel Cabrera, Dominican baseball player
1982 – Alexa Davalos, American actress
1982 – Jhonny Peralta, Dominican baseball player
1983 – Steve Cronin, American soccer goalkeeper
1983 – Humberto Sanchez, Dominican baseball player
1984 – Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
1985 – Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter
1986 – Charles N Zogbia, French footballer
1986 – Joseph Cross, American actor
1986 – Michael Oher, American football player at Ole Miss
1986 – Berrick Barnes, Australian Rugby player
1988 – David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player

Deaths
576 – Saint Germain of Paris (b. 496)
1357 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
1556 – Saito Dosan, Japanese daimyo
1672 – John Trevor, English politician (b. 1626)
1747 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
1750 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1719)
1805 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (b. 1743)
1808 – Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (b. 1720)
1811 – Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1816 – Ras Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord
1828 – Daikokuya Kodayu, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1843 – Noah Webster, American author, politician, and lexicographer (b. 1758)
1849 – Anne Brontë, English author (b. 1820)
1864 – Simion Barnutiu, Romanian philosopher and liberal politician (b. 1808)
1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1916 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
1927 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
1940 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
1947 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1907)
1948 – Unity Mitford, English fascist sympathizer (b. 1914)
1953 – Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
1968 – Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut-born Soviet sniper (b. 1908)
1971 – Audie Murphy, American actor and war hero (b. 1924)
1971 – Jean Vilar, French actor (b. 1912)
1972 – King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1975 – Ezzard Charles, Heavyweight champion (b. 1921)
1976 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
1978 – Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
1981 – Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Archbishop of Warsaw (b. 1901)
1982 – Lt Col H . Jones VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
1983 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1909)
1984 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise) (b. 1926)
1988 – Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer and actor (b. 1917)
1994 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
1994 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (b. 1916)
1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (b. 1948)
2001 – Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2001 – Joe Moakley, American politician (b. 1927)
2002 – Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
2003 – Oleg Makarov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
2003 – Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (b. 1934)
2006 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920)
2007 – Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2008 – David Mitton, Scottish-born director (b. 1938)
2008 – Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Germain of Paris
Augustine of Canterbury
William of Gellone
Bernard of Menthon
Lanfranc
Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918).
National Flag Day in the Republic of the Philippines

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Events
927 – Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies.
1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death.
1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1647 – Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland.
1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
1812 – South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army.
1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1895 – Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy.
1896 – The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damages (1997 USD).
1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
1907 – A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
1908 – Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
1930 – The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
1933 – The Century of Progress World s Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1939 – DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an unlimited national emergency.
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
1957 – Toronto s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n Roll music format.
1958 – The F-4 Phantom II first flight.
1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1962 – The Centralia, Pennsylvania mine fire starts.
1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
1975 – The Dibble s Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 (the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom).
1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
1995 – In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 – First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Miloševic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

Births
1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)
1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
1576 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
1601 – Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
1623 – William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
1651 – Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
1652 – Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)
1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
1756 – King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
1818 – Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
1819 – Julia Ward Howe, American composer (d. 1910)
1820 – Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
1827 – Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
1836 – Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
1837 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
1860 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
1864 – Ante Trumbic, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
1867 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
1871 – Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
1876 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
1878 – Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
1879 – Karl Bühler, German linguist and psychologist (d. 1963)
1879 – Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
1884 – Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
1891 – Claude Champagne, French-Canadian composer (d. 1965)
1893 – Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian (d. 2005)
1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
1897 – John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1900 – Uladzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
1904 – Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
1911 – Hubert H. Humphrey, American politician (d. 1978)
1911 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
1911 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
1912 – John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)
1912 – Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
1912 – Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
1913 – Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
1915 – Herman Wouk, American writer
1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician
1921 – Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor
1923 – Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1923 – Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
1925 – Tony Hillerman, American writer
1930 – John Barth, American novelist
1930 – William S. Sessions, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1933 – Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (d. 2008)
1934 – Harlan Ellison, American author
1935 – Lee Meriwether, Miss America and actress
1935 – Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
1935 – Mal Evans, British Beatles assistant (d. 1976)
1936 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
1936 – Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
1937 – Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)
1939 – Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
1942 – Lee Baca, American law enforcement official
1943 – Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
1943 – Bruce Weitz, American actor
1944 – Christopher Dodd, American politician
1944 – Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
1946 – Lewis Collins, English actor
1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)
1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
1948 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
1951 – Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
1954 – Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
1954 – Jackie Slater, American football player
1955 – Richard Schiff, American actor
1955 – Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
1956 – Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
1957 – Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1957 – Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic Games gold medalist swimmer
1958 – Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
1958 – Linnea Quigley, American actress
1961 – Peri Gilpin, American actress
1962 – Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
1962 – Steven Brill, American film writer and director
1964 – Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality
1965 – Todd Bridges, American actor
1967 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
1968 – Frank Thomas, American baseball player
1969 – Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
1969 – Dondre Whitfield, American actor
1969 – Todd Hundley, American baseball player
1970 – Tim Farron, British politician
1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor
1970 – Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
1970 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor
1971 – Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician
1971 – Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
1971 – Kaur Kender, Estonian author
1971 – Lisa Left Eye Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
1971 – Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
1971 – Monika Schnarre, Canadian model
1972 – Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
1972 – Todd Demsey, American golfer
1973 – Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
1974 – Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon s Call)
1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football player
1975 – André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 – Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
1975 – Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
1975 – Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
1976 – RJD2, American hip-hop producer
1976 – Anita Blonde, Hungarian porn star
1977 – Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
1977 – Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
1977 – Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer
1978 – Adin Brown, American soccer player
1979 – Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
1981 – Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
1981 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
1981 – David Mauro, American painter
1981 – Miloy, Angolan footballer
1981 – Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot distance runner
1983 – Bobby Convey, American footballer
1984 – Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
1984 – Blake Ahearn, NBA basketball player
1985 – Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
1990 – Ekaterina Zaikina, Russian figure-skater

Deaths
366 – Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
735 – Bede, English historian and theologian
866 – Ordoño I of Asturias, King of Asturias (b. 831)
927 – Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria
1039 – Dirk III, Count of Holland
1444 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
1525 – Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
1564 – John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
1610 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
1615 – Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1661 – Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)
1675 – Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
1690 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
1702 – Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
1707 – Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
1781 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (b. 1760)
1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
1840 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
1896 – Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
1910 – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
1919 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848)
1926 – Srecko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
1941 – Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1889)
1941 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1894)
1947 – Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1949 – Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley s Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
1953 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
1963 – Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
1967 – Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
1973 – P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor,singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
1984 – Vincent James McMahon, was a U.S. professional wrestling promoter.
1986 – Isma il Raji al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
1987 – John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1989 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
1992 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
1993 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
2000 – Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
2001 – Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2006 – Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
2006 – Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
2006 – Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
2006 – Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
2007 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
2007 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
2008 – Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)

Holidays and observances
Feast day of the following saints in the Christian Church:
Augustine of Canterbury
Saint Julius the Veteran
Pope John I
Hildebert
Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg
Eutropius
Mother s Day in Bolivia (Día de la Madre)
Children s Day in Nigeria

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Events
451 – The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1328 – William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under German Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
1647 – Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.
1736 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
1770 – The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.
1828 – Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
1868 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
1889 – Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1894 – Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1896 – James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (???? ??????) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
1917 – A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 people and injuring 689. It was the world s longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
1928 – The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece.
1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he spoke for 10 hours.
1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place.
1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
1972 – Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
1972 – The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank.
1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City s World Trade Center.
1981 – The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
1992 – Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
1998 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2002 – Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
2003 – Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
2004 – The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.

Births
1264 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
1478 – Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
1669 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
1689 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
1764 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
1799 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
1822 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
1863 – Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)
1865 – Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)
1867 – Mary of Teck, wife of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1873 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1886 – Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
1893 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
1893 – Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
1899 – Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)
1904 – George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)
1904 – Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
1907 – Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)
1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
1908 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
1909 – Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994)
1909 – Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (d. 2002)
1909 – Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (d. 1969)
1911 – Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
1912 – János Kádár, Prime minister of Hungary (d. 1989)
1912 – Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)
1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
1914 – Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer
1915 – Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
1915 – Antonia Forest, British children s author (d. 2003)
1916 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)
1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary
1918 – Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
1923 – James Arness, American actor
1923 – Roy Dotrice, British actor
1926 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor
1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
1926 – Miles Davis, American musician (d. 1991)
1932 – Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)
1935 – Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress
1938 – William Bolcom, American composer
1938 – Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess
1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
1938 – Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader
1939 – Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster
1940 – Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician
1940 – Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)
1941 – Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003)
1941 – Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player
1941 – John Kaufman, sculptor
1943 – Erica Terpstra, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
1944 – Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author
1945 – Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)
1946 – Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach.
1946 – Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)
1948 – Stevie Nicks, American songwriter
1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor
1949 – Pam Grier, American actress
1949 – Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
1949 – Hank Williams Jr., American singer
1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut
1951 – Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
1952 – David Meece, Christian musician
1953 – Kay Hagan, American politician
1953 – Michael Portillo, British politician
1954 – Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist
1954 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006)
1955 – Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
1955 – Wesley Walker, American football player
1956 – Frédéric Dutoit, French politician
1957 – Margaret Colin, American actress
1957 – François Legault, French Canadian politician
1957 – Kristina Olsen, American musician
1957 – Roberto Ravaglia, Italian racing driver
1957 – Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
1959 – Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1959 – Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer
1960 – Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese racing driver
1960 – Rob Murphy, American baseball player
1961 – Tarsem Singh, Indian film director
1962 – Genie Francis, American actress
1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor
1964 – Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer
1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American musician
1965 – Hazel Irvine, British television presenter
1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
1967 – Phil Doyle, Australian writer
1967 – Kevin Moore, American musician (OSI)
1968 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
1968 – Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler
1968 – Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish film director
1968 – Steve Sedgley, English footballer
1969 – John Baird, Canadian politician
1969 – Musetta Vander, South African actress
1970 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
1971 – Timothy Allen, British Photojournalist
1971 – Matt Stone, American television producer
1972 – Patsy Palmer, British actress
1974 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
1975 – Nicki Aycox, American actress
1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player
1976 – Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1977 – Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)
1977 – Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
1977 – Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
1978 – Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter
1979 – Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
1979 – Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player
1979 – Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler
1981 – Robert Copeland, Australian Rules Football
1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
1981 – Isaac Slade, American musician The Fray
1982 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
1982 – David Reed, British writer and comedian
1984 – Andrea Smith, American artist/painter
1988 – Joel Selwood, Australian footballer
1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress

Deaths
604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
818 – Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
946 – King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
1055 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet
1595 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
1647 – Alse Young, American witch
1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
1685 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
1703 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
1742 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
1814 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, officially named the Guillotine (b. 1789)
1818 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
1831 – Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1840 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
1883 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
1902 – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
1907 – Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835)
1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
1926 – Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (b. 1879)
1933 – Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
1943 – Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
1948 – Theodore Morell, Hitler s personal physician (b. 1886)
1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1918)
1968 – Little Willie John, American singer (b. 1937)
1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
1969 – Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
1976 – Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, disappeared
1977 – William Powell, American singer (The O Jays) (b. 1942)
1978 – Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
1979 – George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
1989 – Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
2001 – Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
2001 – Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
2006 – Kevin O Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
2007 – J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances
Australia – National Sorry Day
Poland – Mother s Day
Georgia – National Day

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Events
1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
1810 – In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
1837 – The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan s H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1914 – The United Kingdom s House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin s theory of evolution.
1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People s Republic.
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955 – In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
1961 – King Hussein of Jordan marries Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 – The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 – The Celtic Football Club becomes the first British, Scottish and Northern European football club to win the European Cup
1977 – Star Wars is released. It rapidly becomes a cult classic and is the start of a six-movie franchise.
1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1995 – The Bosnian Serb Army kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of Tuzla.
1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People s Republic of China s nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 – 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 – China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
2002 – A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2003 – Néstor Kirchner becomes President of Argentina after defeating Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
2007 – The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire for the second time.

Births
1048 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
1334 – Emperor Suko (d. 1398)
1458 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
1606 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, Virginia politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1841)
1803 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
1818 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
1845 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
1846 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
1846 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
1848 – Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher (d. 1924)
1852 – William Muldoon, wrestler (d. 1933)
1856 – Louis Franchet d Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
1865 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1877 – Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
1878 – Bill Bojangles Robinson, American entertainer (d. 1949)
1879 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher (d. 1964)
1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
1886 – Philip Murray, U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader (d. 1952)
1886 – Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
1887 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
1892 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and later president (d. 1980)
1897 – Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
1898 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher, TV personality (d. 1971)
1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
1900 – Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
1903 – Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
1908 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
1909 – Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
1909 – Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
1912 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
1913 – Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
1917 – Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian
1917 – Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
1918 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 – Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
1922 – Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
1924 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
1925 – Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
1927 – Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
1929 – Warren Frost, American actor
1931 – Georgi Grechko, Russian cosmonaut
1931 – Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
1931 – Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director
1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
1932 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian writer
1933 – Ray Spencer, English footballer
1933 – Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago
1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
1935 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
1938 – Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress
1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer
1943 – John Poli Palmer, British rock musician (Family)
1944 – Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
1944 – Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1944 – John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality
1944 – Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
1946 – David A. Hargrave, RPG designer
1948 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
1948 – Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
1951 – Bob Gale, American screenwriter
1952 – Al Sarrantonio, American writer
1952 – Gordon Smith, American politician, junior senator from Oregon
1952 – Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive
1953 – Eve Ensler, American playwright
1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
1953 – Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
1955 – Alistair Burt, British politician
1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
1956 – David P. Sartor, American music composer
1956 – Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1957 – Edward Lee, American writer
1957 – Robert Picard, French Canadian ice hockey player
1958 – Paul Weller, British musician
1959 – Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
1959 – Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 – Julian Clary, British television personality
1960 – Amy Klobuchar, American politician, junior senator from Minnesota
1960 – Anthea Turner, British television personality
1962 – Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
1964 – Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
1964 – David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
1966 – Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player
1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
1969 – Stacy London, American fashion consultant
1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian guitar player (Megadeth)
1970 – Joey Eischen, American baseball player
1970 – Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses
1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
1970 – Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu
1971 – Marco Cappato, Italian politician
1971 – Justin Henry, American actor
1972 – Octavia Spencer, American actress
1973 – Demetri Martin, American comedian
1973 – Molly Sims, American model and actress
1973 – Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer
1974 – Frank Klepacki, American musician
1974 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player
1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
1976 – Tarik Glenn, American football player
1976 – Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor
1976 – Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes)
1977 – Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ
1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer
1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
1979 – Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice-hockey player
1979 – Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
1980 – Jae Hee, South Korean actor
1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
1982 – Luke Webster, Australian rules footballer
1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
1982 – Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
1983 – Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
1984 – Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
1984 – Luke Ball, Australian rules footballer
1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, 2005 Miss World
1984 – Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Shawne Merriman, American football player
1984 – Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
1985 – Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
1986 – Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
1986 – Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
1986 – Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
1987 – Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
1987 – Yves De Winter, Belgian goalkeeper
1990 – Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
1993 – Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets

Deaths
709 – Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (b. c. 639)
735 – Bede, English historian and monk
967 – Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
992 – Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (b. c. 935)
1085 – Pope Gregory VII
1261 – Pope Alexander IV
1452 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
1595 – Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
1667 – Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
1681 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
1693 – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
1741 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
1786 – Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
1789 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
1797 – John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
1805 – William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
1848 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
1849 – Benjamin d Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
1899 – Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)
1912 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
1917 – Maksim Bahdanovic, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
1919 – Madame C. J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
1924 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
1926 – Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
1927 – Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
1930 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
1934 – Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
1935 – Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
1940 – Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
1942 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American Cellist (b. 1902)
1943 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
1951 – Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec Rice Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899)
1968 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
1979 – John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
1981 – Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
1983 – Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1983 – Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
1986 – Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)
1988 – Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1994 – Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)
1995 – Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
1996 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (b. 1929)
1996 – Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
2000 – Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
2003 – Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
2004 – Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
2005 – Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
2005 – Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
2005 – Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
2005 – Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
2006 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (b. 1931)
2008 – J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)

Holidays and observances
Argentina – Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810)
Africa Day commemorating the 1963 fouding of he AU s precursor, OAU
Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe – African Liberation Day
Lebanon, Liberation Day (2000)
The former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Day of Youth
Ancient Latvia – Urbanas Diena observed
Saint Urban s Day (d. 240)
Saint Bede the Venerable (d. 735)
Saint Augustine of Canterbury
Saint Pope Gregory VII (d. 1085)
Towel Day
Nerd Pride Day

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Events
1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 – Lambert Simnel is crowned as King Edward VI at Dublin, Ireland.
1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott s Mills, Maryland.
1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 – Samuel F. B. Morse sends the message What hath God wrought (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland.
1846 – Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1856 – John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1881 – Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first personage from the theatre to be knighted.
1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1901 – Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1941 – World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy.
1943 – Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1949 – The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade.
1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha s Parinibbana.
1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for disturbing the peace after disembarking from their bus.
1961 – Cyprus enters the Council of Europe.
1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1973 – Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords.
1976 – The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
1976 – In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world s best wines.
1980 – The International Court of Justice calls for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran. The hostages would not be freed until the following January.
1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
1988 – Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
1989 – Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
1990 – A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1999 – Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.
2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 – Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel s worst-ever civil disaster.
2001 – The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.
2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2004 – Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.

Births
15 BC – Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. 19)
1494 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
1522 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
1544 – William Gilbert, English natural philosopher (d. 1603)
1616 – John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)
1671 – Gian Gastone de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
1686 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor and thermometer maker (d. 1736)
1689 – Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1794 – William Whewell, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1866)
1803 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (d. 1866)
1810 – Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
1810 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
1836 – Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
1854 – John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (d. 1934)
1863 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
1868 – Charles E. Taylor, First aircraft maintenance professional (d. 1956)
1870 – Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
1870 – Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
1878 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer (d. 1972)
1879 – H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese s and founder (d. 1956)
1885 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948).
1886 – Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
1887 – Edward Mick Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)
1891 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971)
1895 – Samuel Irving Newhouse, American publisher (d. 1979)
1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
1899 – Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)
1900 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete and politician (d. 1954)
1900 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1901 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1968)
1905 – Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1908 – Sam Giancana, American gangster (d. 1975)
1909 – Wilbur Mills, American politician (d. 1992)
1911 – Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (d. 1986)
1914 – Giuseppe Valdengo, Italian baritone (d. 2007)
1916 – Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat (d. 2002)
1923 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
1925 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish-born entertainer (d. 1994)
1926 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
1928 – William Trevor, Irish writer
1930 – Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor
1931 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor
1932 – Arnold Wesker, English dramatist
1933 – Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1934 – Jane Byrne, American politician
1934 – Barry Rose, English choir-trainer and organist
1935 – Joan Micklin Silver, American director
1936 – Harold Budd, American musician
1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian
1938 – David Viscott, American psychiatrist (d. 1996)
1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
1941 – George Lakoff, American linguist and political activist
1942 – Ali Bacher, South African Cricket player and administrator
1943 – Gary Burghoff, American actor
1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer
1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress
1946 – Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Russian-born Polish athlete
1947 – Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive
1949 – Jim Broadbent, English actor
1950 – Larry Seidlin, American judge
1953 – Alfred Molina, London-born Spanish-Italian actor
1955 – Rosanne Cash, American singer
1955 – David Leonard, American musician
1956 – Michael Jackson, Northern Irish clergyman
1959 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish hockey player (d. 1985)
1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
1960 – Guy Fletcher, British keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1960 – Doug Jones, American actor
1962 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003)
1963 – Ivan Capelli, Italian racing driver
1963 – Michael Chabon, American author
1963 – Joe Dumars, American basketball player
1963 – Kathy Leander, Swiss singer
1963 – Rich Rodriguez, American football coach
1964 – Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer
1964 – Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – John C. Reilly, American actor
1965 – Shinichiro Watanabe, Japanese anime director
1966 – Eric Cantona, French footballer
1966 – Ricky Craven, American NASCAR driver
1966 – Russell Kun, Nauruan politician
1967 – Carlos Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
1967 – Eric Close, American actor
1967 – Steve McDonald, American bassist (Redd Kross)
1968 – Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter
1969 – Rich Robinson, American musician (Black Crowes)
1970 – Tommy Page, American singer
1971 – Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
1972 – Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer
1973 – Bartolo Colón, Dominican baseball player
1973 – Dermot O Leary, English television presenter
1973 – Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
1973 – Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer
1974 – Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian
1974 – Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
1974 – Sébastien Foucan, French actor and free-runner
1975 – Marc Gagnon, Canadian short track speed skater
1975 – Maria Lawson, British Singer
1975 – Yannis Goumas, Greek footballer
1976 – Alessandro Cortini, Italian musician
1976 – Catherine Cox, Australian netballer
1976 – Bob Maesen, Belgian flatwater canoer
1977 – Kym Valentine. Australian actress
1978 – Brian Ching, American footballer
1978 – Bryan Greenberg, American actor
1978 – Brad Penny, American baseball player
1978 – Johan Holmqvist, Swedish hockey player
1979 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
1979 – Frank Mir, American UFC fighter
1980 – Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1981 – Marketa Janska, Czech model and Playboy Playmate
1982 – Issah Ahmed, Ghana football player
1982 – DaMarcus Beasley, American footballer
1983 – Ben Yahtzee Croshaw, Anglo-Australian videogame creator and critic
1984 – Sarah Hagan, American actress
1984 – Brodney Pool, American football player
1985 – Tim Bridgman, British racing driver
1986 – Jordan Metcalfe, English actor
1986 – Mark Ballas, professional dancer
1987 – Guillaume Latendresse, French-Canadian hockey player
1988 – Billy Gilman, American singer
1989 – Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (d. 2005)
1990 – Joey Logano, American racecar driver
1991 – Erika Umeda, Japanese singer
1992 – Travis T. Flory, American actor
1995 – Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein

Deaths
1153 – King David I of Scotland (b. 1084)
1351 – Abu al-Hasan Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. c. 1297)
1408 – Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)
1425 – Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)
1456 – Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)
1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (b. 1473)
1612 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman (b. 1563)
1627 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (b. 1561)
1632 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
1725 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1682)
1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1749 – Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman
1792 – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (b. 1718)
1806 – John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)
1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, American Civil War officer (b. 1837)
1872 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (b. 1794)
1876 – Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
1879 – William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist and publisher (b. 1805)
1881 – Samuel Palmer, English artist (b. 1805)
1883 – Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808)
1908 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1821)
1919 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet (b. 1870)
1941 – Lancelot Holland, British admiral, died in sinking of the HMS Hood (51) (b. 1887)
1945 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1947 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
1948 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1949 – Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)
1950 – Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)
1959 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
1963 – Elmore James, American musician (b. 1918)
1969 – Willy Ley, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1906)
1972 – Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (b. 1915)
1974 – Duke Ellington, American composer and musician (b. 1899)
1984 – Vincent J. McMahon, American pro wrestling promoter (b. 1914)
1991 – Gene Clark, American singer and songwriter (The Byrds) (b. 1944)
1991 – Miriam di San Servolo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese racing driver (b. 1956)
1995 – Harold Wilson, British politician (b. 1916)
1997 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
2000 – Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
2002 – Wallace Markfield, American writer (b. 1926)
2003 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
2004 – Henry Ries, American photographer (b. 1917)
2004 – Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
2004 – Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (b. 1900)
2005 – Carl Amery, German writer (b. 1922)
2005 – Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (b. 1913)
2005 – Vivian Liberto, first wife of Johnny Cash (b. 1934)
2006 – Henry Bumstead, American art director (b. 1915)
2006 – Michal Zyczkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
2007 – Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (b. 1922)
2008 – Dick Martin American comedian (b. 1922)
2008 – Robert Knox British actor (b. 1989)

Holidays and observances
Canada: Victoria Day, on this date if it falls on a Monday or the Monday before it. In Quebec, it is known as National Patriotes Day (Journée nationale des patriotes).
Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in Eastern Orthodox tradition. In addition, the following secular observances are recognized, in the association with the works of Cyril and Methodius Day
Republic of Macedonia: Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners Day
Bermuda: Bermuda Day.
Eritrea: National Day.
Aldersgate Day (Methodism).
Saint Sarah is celebrated in Camargue, France by the Roma people (or Gypsies).

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Events
1430 – Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1568 – The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years War.
1609 – Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.
1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years War.
1701 – After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.
1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.
1788 – South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.
1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (The Liberator).
1844 – Declaration of the Báb: During the previous night, the Persian Prophet the Báb announced his revelation, founding Bábísm. He announced to the world the coming of He whom God shall make manifest. He is considered the forerunner of Bahá u lláh, the founder of the Bahá í Faith.
1846 – Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1863 – The Siege of Port Hudson takes place.
1873 – The Canadian Parliament establishes the North West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner.
1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
1911 – the New York Public Library is dedicated.
1915 – World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
1923 – Launch of Belgium s SABENA airline.
1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, The Karnival Kid, is released.
1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
1934 – The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the Battle of Toledo, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 26 sailors. The remaining 32 crewmen and one passenger are rescued the following day.
1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, committs suicide while in Allied custody.
1945 – World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
1949 – The Federal Republic of Germany is established and the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is proclaimed.
1951 – Tibetans are forced to sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People s Republic of China.
1958 – Explorer 1 ceases transmission.
1960 – Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion announces that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured.
1967 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran and blockades the port of Eilat at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping, laying the foundations for the Six Day War.
1970 – A fire breaks out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
1977 – Two terrorist actions unfold in The Netherlands: several dozen hostages are taken on board a train, and about 100 others (mostly children) are held at a school. The train siege lasts until June 11.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1996 – 1996 Everest Disaster : The deadliest year for climbers of Everest
1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75% voting yes.
2002 – The 55 parties clause of the Kyoto protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.
2003 – The euro exceeds its initial trading value as it hits $1.18 for the first time since its introduction in 1999.
2004 – Part of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport s Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2008– The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries. UFC 93: Henderson vs. Franklin.

Births
1052 – King Philip I of France (d. 1108)
1100 – Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1606 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
1617 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692)
1707 – Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
1718 – William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (d. 1783)
1729 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)
1734 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician/hypnotist (d. 1815)
1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (d. 1801)
1790 – Jules Dumont d Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1795 – Charles Barry , English architect (d. 1860)
1810 – Margaret Fuller, American journalist and feminist (d. 1850)
1820 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
1820 – Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)
1824 – Ambrose Burnside, American Union Civil War general (d. 1881)
1834 – Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1844 – `Abdu l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá í Faith (d. 1921)
1848 – Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (d. 1896)
1865 – Epitácio Pessoa, President of Brazil (d. 1942)
1875 – Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
1879 – Dezso Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)
1884 – Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 – Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1889 – Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
1890 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966)
1891 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
1893 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
1895 – Billy Smith The first footballer ever to score directly from a corner kick. (d. 1956)
1896 – Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
1898 – Scott O Dell, American author (d. 1989)
1900 – Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
1906 – General P.N. Thapar, The Fifth Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
1908 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1908 – Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (d. 1934)
1910 – Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
1910 – Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and painter (d. 1999)
1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
1910 – Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
1912 – Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
1912 – Betty Astell, English actress (d. 2005)
1912 – John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
1913 – Ruth Fernandez Puerto Rican singer
1917 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (d. 2008)
1918 – Denis Compton, English cricketer (d. 1997)
1919 – Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer
1920 – Helen O Connell, American singer (d. 1993)
1921 – James Blish, American author (d. 1975)
1921 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician (d. 2008)
1923 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist
1923 – Walter Wolfrum, German fighter pilot
1925 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1925 – Mac Wiseman, American musician
1928 – Jeannie Carson, English actress and comedian
1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002)
1928 – Nigel Davenport, English actor
1928 – Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1929 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1930 – Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
1931 – Barbara Barrie, American actress
1933 – Joan Collins, English actress
1934 – Robert Moog, American inventor (d. 2005)
1936 – Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
1936 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor
1938 – Peter Preston, English journalist and author
1939 – Reinhard Hauff, German film director
1939 – Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1942 – K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director
1942 – Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1943 – General Norman Johnson, American singer (Chairmen of the Board)
1944 – John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
1945 – Padmarajan, Indian film director (d. 1991)
1946 – Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
1946 – H. Paul Shuch, American SETI scientist
1947 – Bernard Comrie, English linguist
1947 – Ann Hui, Hong Kong film director
1947 – Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
1948 – Reggie Cleveland, Canadian baseball player
1951 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
1951 – Antonis Samaras, Greek politician
1952 – Anne-Marie David, French singer
1952 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer
1955 – Luka Bloom, Irish singer/songwriter
1956 – Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician
1956 – Mark Shaw, New Zealand rugby footballer
1956 – Buck Showalter, American baseball player and manager
1957 – Mark Arnold, American actor
1957 – Jimmy McShane Northern Irish singer and front man of Baltimora, (d. 1995)
1958 – Mitch Albom, American writer
1958 – Drew Carey, American actor, comedian, and game show host
1958 – François Feldman, French singer
1961 – Karen Duffy, American actress
1962 – Imran Anwar, Pakistani Internet pioneer and American TV personality
1963 – Wally Dallenbach Jr., American race car driver and announcer
1963 – Gregg Opie Hughes, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
1964 – Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1965 – Tom Tykwer, German film director
1965 – Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Real Madrid footballer
1966 – Graeme Hick, English cricketer
1966 – Gary Roberts, professional ice hockey player
1967 – Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
1967 – Phil Selway, English drummer (Radiohead)
1968 – Guinevere Turner, American actress
1970 – Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin
1970 – Nanette Burstein, American director/producer
1970 – Bryan Herta, American race car driver
1970 – Blake Schwendiman, American author
1971 – Laurel Holloman, American actress
1972 – Rubens Barrichello, Brazilian formula one driver
1974 – Ken Jennings, American game show contestant
1974 – Matt Hindle, Canadian bobsledder
1974 – Jewel, American singer
1974 – Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1974 – Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1975 – Kim Sung-soo, South Korean actor
1976 – Kelly Monaco, American actress
1976 – Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
1978 – Mike González, American baseball player
1978 – Carolyn Moos, American model and professional basketball player
1978 – Scott Raynor, American drummer (blink-182)
1979 – Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Kirk Saarloos, American baseball player
1979 – Rasual Butler, American basketball player
1980 – Lane Garrison, American actor
1980 – Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer
1981 – Gwenno Saunders, Welsh dancer and singer (The Pipettes)
1982 – Cyrill Gloor, Swiss footballer
1982 – Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
1982 – Tristan Prettyman, American musician
1983 – Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and film-maker
1983 – Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)
1983 – Alex Shelley, American professional wrestler
1984 – Adam Wylie, American actor
1985 – Ross Wallace, Scottish footballer
1986 – Ruben Zadkovich, Australian footballer
1987 – Walker Lane, American Musician
1988 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer

Deaths
1125 – Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1081)
1304 – Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
1523 – Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (b. 1466)
1524 – Ismail I, Shah of Persia (b. 1487)
1662 – John Gauden, English bishop and writer (b. 1605)
1670 – Ferdinando II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
1691 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (b. 1622)
1701 – Captain Kidd, Scottish pirate (b. 1645)
1752 – William Bradford, English-born printer (b. 1663)
1754 – John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b. 1704)
1783 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (b. 1725)
1786 – Móric Benyovszky Hungarian count (b. 1746)
1813 – Geraud Duroc, French general (b. 1772)
1825 – Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
1841 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
1846 – Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish politician (b. 1778)
1855 – Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797)
1857 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (b. 1789)
1868 – Kit Carson, American trapper, scout, and Indian agent (b. 1809)
1886 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
1893 – Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (b. 1805)
1895 – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist and physicist (b. 1798)
1906 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (b. 1828)
1908 – François Coppée, French poet and novelist (b. 1842)
1920 – Svetozar Boroevic, Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
1934 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (b. 1909)
1934 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (b. 1910)
1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
1945 – Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (b. 1900)
1965 – Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)
1966 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
1967 – Lionel Groulx, French Canadian priest and historian (b. 1878)
1975 – Moms Mabley, American comedian (b. 1894)
1981 – Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
1981 – Rayner Heppenstall, English novelist (d. 1911)
1981 – George Jessel, American actor (b. 1898)
1981 – David Lewis, Canadian labour lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
1986 – Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)
1989 – Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian theatre director (b. 1915)
1991 – Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1992 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (b. 1939)
1994 – Ray Candy, American professional wrestler (b. 1951)
1994 – Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (b. 1929)
1996 – Patrick Cargill, English actor (b. 1918)
1996 – Rob Hall, New Zealand high altitude climber (b. 1941)
1996 – Scott Fischer, American high altitude climber (b. 1955)
1999 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer (b. 1912)
2003 – Jean Yanne, French actor and director (b. 1933)
2004 – Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (b. 1919)
2006 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (b. 1949)
2006 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
2006 – Frits Bernard, American activist (b. 1920)
2006 – Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
2008 – David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)
2008 – Utah Phillips, American folksinger and activist (b. 1935)

Holidays and observances
Bahá í Faith: Declaration of the Báb
World Turtle Day
Discordianism: Day of Disunity
Aaron the Illustrious in the Syriac Orthodox Church
Saint Desiderius
Saint Guibert of Gemblours

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Events
334 BC – The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
1176 – Murder attempt by the Hashshashin (Assassins) on Saladin near Aleppo.
1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1455 – Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1807 – Most of the English town of Chudleigh destroyed by fire
1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
1826 – The HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage, carrying Charles Darwin.
1840 – The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1842 – Farmers Lester Howe and Henry Wetsel discover Howe Caverns when they stumble upon a large gaping hole in the ground.
1843 – Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
1844 – Persian Prophet The Báb announces his revelation, founding Bábism. He announces to the world the coming of He whom God shall make manifest. He is considered the forerunner of Bahá u lláh, the founder of the Bahá í Faith.
1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas).
1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
1872 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was officially opened
1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their Flying-Machine.
1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
1915 – Five trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1942 – Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
1947 – Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
1958 – Start of Sri Lankan riots of 1958, this riot was a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils.
1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
1963 – Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an end to poverty and racial injustice in America.
1967 – The L Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
1969 – Apollo 10 s lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon s surface.
1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
1990 – The Windows 3.0 operating system is released by Microsoft.
1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.

Births
1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force s first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
2002 – In Washington, DC, the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
2004 – Felipe, Prince of Asturias, of the Spanish Royal Family marries Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano.
2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one resident.
2006 – Results from the Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006 are announced. 55.4% of voters vote to become independent from the Serbia and Montenegro Union.
2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between 22 May and 31 May 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.

Deaths
1381 – Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian Saint (d. 1457)
1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
1724 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
1808 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
1823 – Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (d. 1889)
1841 – Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
1844 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
1849 – Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
1874 – Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
1879 – Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
1885 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
1891 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
1902 – Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
1904 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
1907 – Hergé, Belgian comic-book creator (d. 1983)
1907 – Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
1908 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (d. 1970)
1908 – Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
1910 – Johnny Olson, American game-show announcer (d. 1985)
1911 – Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist and pianist (d. 2007)
1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1914 – Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
1914 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
1914 – Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (d. 1994)
1917 – Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
1917 – Nathan Davis, American actor
1917 – Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer
1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
1922 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, actor, and composer
1925 – James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel laureate
1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
1927 – Phil Tucker, American director
1928 – T. Boone Pickens, Jr., American businessman
1930 – John Barth, American writer
1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
1930 – Kenny Ball, British musician
1934 – Peter Nero, American musician
1934 – Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
1935 – Ron Piché, Quebec baseball player
1936 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor
1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
1940 – Bernard Shaw, American television journalist
1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor
1941 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
1941 – Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician
1941 – Martha Langbein, German athlete
1942 – Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist
1942 – Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk)
1942 – Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
1943 – Tommy John, American baseball player
1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor
1946 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager
1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
1948 – Richard Baker, American politician
1950 – Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
1950 – Bernie Taupin, English songwriter
1952 – Bernhard Brinkmann, German politician
1953 – Doris Barnett, German politician
1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
1955 – Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money)
1955 – Dale Winton, British radio DJ and television presenter
1955 – Jerry Dammers, English musician (The Specials)
1955 – Chalmers Spanky Alford, American jazz guitarist (d. 2008)
1956 – Al Corley, American actor and producer
1956 – Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician
1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
1957 – Gary Sweet, Australian actor
1959 – Steven Morrissey, English singer
1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
1961 – Ann Cusack, American actress
1962 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1964 – Ashley Renee, American fetish model
1966 – Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
1966 – Jose Mesa, Dominican baseball player
1967 – Brooke Smith, American actress
1967 – John Vanderslice, American musician
1968 – Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
1970 – Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
1971 – Manuel Ortiz, Mexican professional wrestler
1972 – Anna Belknap, American actress
1972 – Annabel Chong, Singapore actress
1972 – Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
1973 – Julián Tavárez, Dominican baseball player
1973 – Danny Tiatto, Australian footballer
1974 – John Bale, American baseball player
1974 – Sean Gunn, American actor
1974 – A. J. Langer, American actress
1975 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice-hockey player
1975 – Tracy Brookshaw, American professional wrestler and valet
1975 – Salvador Ballesta, Spanish footballer.
1977 – Alastair Ralphs, Canadian professional wrestler
1977 – Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
1977 – Dre Bly, American football player
1977 – Vinnie Potestivo, American TV Producer
1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
1978 – Katie Price, British model
1979 – Nadia Khan, TV Presenter
1979 – Maggie Q, American actress
1980 – Rhett Fisher, actor/musician
1980 – Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer
1980 – Chad Tracy, American baseball player
1981 – Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler
1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
1982 – Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
1982 – John Bobek, American actor
1983 – John Hopkins, Anglo-American motorcycling racer
1984 – Joe Lauzon, American martial artist
1985 – Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice-hockey player
1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1985 – Caridee English, American model
1987 – Novak Ðokovic, Serbian tennis player

Holidays and observances
337 – Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
748 – Empress Gensho of Japan (b. 680)
1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406)
1457 – Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
1538 – John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
1745 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
1760 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
1795 – Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
1859 – King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
1885 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (b. 1869)
1910 – Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
1932 – Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
1939 – Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
1965 – Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
1975 – Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
1989 – Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
1997 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
1998 – José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
2003 – Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
2005 – Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2006 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
2006 – Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
2008 – Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)

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