Today's 1 May Major Events in History

305 Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor

408 Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius dies, leaving his son Theodosius II aged seven as emperor

• 1006 Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus
• 1048 Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1308 Albert I, King of Germany, is assassinated by his nephew John of Swabia [the Parricide], for cutting John out of his right to inherit
• 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton: The Kingdom of England recognizes the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state, ending the Wars of Scottish Independence
• 1394 Ekiho exorcises the Zen temple and its surroundings of an old badger

Columbus Pitches Westward Voyage

1486 Christopher Columbus proposes his plan to seek a western route to India during an audience with the Spanish monarch Isabella I; she grants full support three years later

• 1598 Jacob van Neck's merchant fleet departs for Java, modern day Indonesia
• 1606 Spanish Queirós expedition is the first European expedition to reach Espíritu Santo, Vanuatu, although its members believe they have discovered Terra Australis, the supposed southern continent [1]
• 1625 Portuguese and Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia) from the forces of the Dutch West India Company
• 1682 Louis XIV and his court inaugurate the Paris Observatory
• 1704 Boston News-Letter publishes first newspaper advertisement
• 1707 Acts of Union come into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain
• 1709 Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe first opens its doors in Mexico City on the site of two apparitions of the Virgin; now a basilica and the holiest church in Mexico

Treaty of Szatmár

1711 Habsburg Emperor Charles VI and Hungarian nobles, including Sándor Károlyi, sign the Peace of Szatmár, ending the rebellion led by Francis II Rákóczi

• 1715 Brandenburg-Prussia joins the Russian-led anti-Swedish alliance by declaring war on Sweden during the Great Northern War
• 1718 Spanish Catholic missionaries establish Mission San Antonio de Valero (now known as Alamo), the fist of several settlements in what is now San Antonio, Texas
• 1725 Spain and Austria sign trade treaty

Species Plantarum

1753 Publication of "Species Plantarum" by Carl Linnaeus, the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature

• 1756 France and Austria sign the First Treaty of Versailles, an alliance that guarantees Austrian neutrality in a war between Britain and France
• 1757 Austria and France divide Prussia
• 1759 British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West Indies, capturing it from France

Cook Charts the St Laurence

1760 Publication of James Cook's first significant mapping effort, "A New Chart of the River St Laurence, from the Island of Anticosti To the Falls of Richelieu"; later critical to British defeat of the French at Quebec City [1]

• 1776 German philosopher Adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of the Illuminati
• 1778 Battle of Crooked Billet: British forces surprise and inflict a heavy defeat on the Pennsylvania militia led by John Lacey in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, during the American Revolution

Battle of Nuʻuanu

1795 King of Hawaiʻi Kamehameha I defeats Kalanikupule and conquers island of Oʻahu at Battle of Nuʻuanu [approx. date]

• 1822 John Phillips is elected the first mayor of Boston
• 1834 Belgian parliament accepts railway laws

1840 "Penny Black," the world's first adhesive postage stamp is issued by the United Kingdom

Whig Convention

1844 Whig Party nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate at the Whig Convention in Baltimore

• 1846 Austrian explorer Ida Laura Pfeiffer (48) begins her first trip around world, leaving by boat from Hamburg bound for Rio de Janeiro
• 1848 The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
• 1850 John Geary becomes the first mayor of San Francisco
• 1851 First public flushing toilets the 'Monkey Closets' unveiled by George Jennings as part of The Great Exhibition at Hyde Park, London, costing one penny
• 1851 Great Exhibition opens at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London

Deutsches Wörterbuch

1852 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm publish the first volume of their German dictionary, Deutsches Wörterbuch, which is not completed until 1961

• 1852 The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation
• 1853 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes, a major urban infrastructure development
• 1853 Argentina adopts its constitution
• 1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to the US Navy in Rivas
• 1861 General Lee orders Confederate troops under T. J. Jackson to Harper's Ferry

New Orleans Occupied

1862 Major General Benjamin Butler's Union forces complete the occupation of New Orleans, after facing no resistance

• 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, 29,000 injured or died
• 1863 Battle of Port Gibson: Union victory, Confederates outnumbered about 8,000 to 23,000 (Mississippi)
• 1863 Confederate congress passes resolution to kill black soldiers
• 1863 Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled first opens its doors in New York City, oldest orthopaedic hospital in the United States
• 1863 The "Confederate National Flag" replaces the "Stars and Bars"
• 1864 Atlanta campaign in Georgia begins during US Civil War
• 1864 Union forces clash with Confederates at the Battle of Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
• 1873 Emperor Franz Joseph opens the 5th World's Exposition in Vienna
• 1873 US issues the world's first government postal card
• 1875 238 members of the "Whiskey Ring" are accused of anti-US activities, one of the largest corruption scandals in US history
• 1875 Alexandra Palace in London reopens after burning down in 1873
• 1883 Bob Rogers is acknowledged as the first American pro sports trainer when he is hired by the NY Athletic Club
• 1883 First National League baseball game in Philadelphia since 1876, Providence Greys beat Philadelphia Quakers, 4-3
• 1883 The International Colonial and Export Trade Exposition is held from May 1 to October 1 in Amsterdam
• 1884 Catcher Moses Walker is acknowledged as the first African-American to play major league baseball joining the Toledo Blue Stockings
• 1884 Construction begins on Chicago's first skyscraper (10 stories)
• 1885 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
• 1886 Nationwide demonstrations and strikes demanding an eight-hour workday begin in the US
• 1889 Second International Congress calls for the first International Workers' Day on May 1 in honor of the Chicago protests of 1886

Young's 1st Cleveland Game

1891 Legendary pitcher Cy Young wins first game played at Cleveland's League Park; Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3

• 1892 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
• 1893 World's Columbian Exposition showcasing technological innovations (original Ferris wheel, first moving walkway) opens in Chicago to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the "New World"

PM Charles Tupper

1896 Seven days after Parliament is dissolved, Charles Tupper is sworn in as the sixth prime minister of Canada

Fire When you are Ready!

1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as the US routs the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay

• 1900 Scofield Mine disaster: a premature blast collapses a mine tunnel, killing at least 200 in Scofield, Utah
• 1901 Chicago White Sox outfielder Herm McFarland hits first grand slam in American League history in 19-9 win at home against Detroit; Tigers commit 12 errors
• 1901 The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York, and runs until November 2

Edward VII Visits Paris

1903 King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Paris, where he is feted in a first step toward improving Anglo-French relations, culminating in the signing of the Entente Cordiale on 8 April, 1904

• 1906 Philadelphia Phillies Johnny Lush (20) pitches no-hitter in 6-0 win over Brooklyn Superbas in Washington Park in Brooklyn, New York; the team's last no-hitter until 1964
• 1907 Belgium government of De Trooz forms
• 1908 World's most intense rainfall (2.47 inches in 3 minutes) occurs in Portobelo, Panama
• 1912 The Beverly Hills Hotel opens on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California
• 1913 Longacre Theatre opens at 220 W 48th Street in New York City

Dictator Yuan Shikai

1914 Yuan Shikai's cabinet replaces China's provisional constitution with a constitutional compact granting the President dictatorial powers over China's military, finances, foreign policy, and the rights of Chinese citizens

Lusitania Leaves NY

1915 British liner Lusitania leaves New York for Liverpool on its last fateful journey

• 1915 German submarine torpedoes US tanker Gulflight

Beatty Promoted to Admiral

1919 British naval officer David Beatty is promoted to Admiral of the Fleet

• 1920 Belgium-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
• 1920 Legendary slugger Babe Ruth hits his first home run for the New York Yankees in a 6-0 win over his former club, the Boston Red Sox
• 1920 Longest MLB game by innings: Brooklyn Robins and Boston Braves tie, 1-1, in 26 innings
• 1920 Roermond Football Club (1936 KNVB Cup) is established in Netherlands
• 1922 Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitches a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers

Nazis Disrupt May Day

1923 Adolf Hitler and Ernst Rohm attempt to break up socialist May Day demonstrates, inviting Nazis from as far away as Nuremberg to take part in the violence

• 1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes President of Greece

Mercedes-Benz

1924 German automobile manufacturers Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie begin their first joint venture, later merging into Mercedes-Benz

Chinese Military Academy

1924 Sun Yat Sen establishes the Republic of China Military Academy on Changzhou Island in Guangdong, first classes held on June 16

• 1925 Future Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Jimmie Foxx makes his MLB debut at 17 for Philadelphia A's; pinch-hits a single in 9-4 loss v Washington
• 1926 Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige (19) debuts in the Negro Southern League for Chattanooga
• 1926 British coal miners go on strike
• 1927 Imperial Airways is the first British airliner to serve cooked meals
• 1927 Pitcairn Airlines, later Eastern Air Lines, begins service
• 1928 Fascist Erich Wichman attacks socialist VARA-radio transmitter while drunk
• 1928 Hailstones kill six children and injure 10 in Klausenburg, Romania
• 1928 Hawaiian celebration Lei Day begins
• 1928 Rotterdam soccer club Black White '28 is established (2000 Women's KNVB Cup); declared bankrupt 2004
• 1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen, Netherlands
• 1929 Police kill 19 and injure at least 250 May Day demonstrators in Berlin
• 1930 The planet Pluto is officially named by 11-year-old English schoolgirl Venetia Burney
• 1931 Norway claims uninhabited Peter I Island in the Bellingshausen Sea near Antarctica
• 1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running association with CBS radio, various programs continue until 1945
• 1931 The Empire State Building opens in New York City as the world's tallest building until the World Trade Center surpasses it in 1970
• 1932 First Suriname union congress held in Paramaribo
• 1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act: Philippine Legislature accepts the US proposal for independence (realized in 1946)
• 1935 Canada's first silver dollar enters circulation, featuring King George V

Selassie Escapes Ethiopia

1936 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italy invades

Neutrality Act Signed

1937 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, banning travel on belligerent ships and imposes an arms embargo on warring nations

1939 Batman first appears in Detective Comics #27

• 1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for "The Yearling"
• 1940 Summer Olympics scheduled for Helsinki, Finland, are cancelled by the Finnish Olympic Committee because of WWII

Citizen Kane

1941 "Citizen Kane," directed by Orson Welles and starring himself, Joseph Cotten, and Dorothy Comingore, premieres at the Palace Theater in New York City

• 1941 General Mills introduces CheeriOats, an oat-based, ready-to-eat cold cereal; renamed Cherrios in 1945
• 1941 US savings bonds go on sale to help finance the war effort
• 1942 Radio Orange (Oranje) urges listeners to defy the Nazi-imposed order requiring Jewish people to wear the Star of David
• 1943 Food rationing begins in the United States during World War II
• 1943 German plane sinks the British ship SS Erinpura in the Mediterranean with the loss of 799 lives
• 1943 SS General Hanns Albin Rauter announces that all Jews will be 'removed' from the occupied Netherlands
• 1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to American Martin Flavin for his novel "Journey in the Dark"
• 1944 Surprise attack on Weteringschans, Amsterdam, fails
• 1945 About 1,000 residents of Demmin, Germany, commit suicide as the Soviet Red Army occupies the town
• 1945 Arthur Seyss-Inquart flees to Flensburg, Germany
• 1945 Australian and Dutch troops land on Tarakan, off the coast of Borneo
• 1945 Radio Budapest resumes shortwave broadcasting in Hungary after World War II
• 1945 Soviet army reaches Rostock

• 1946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year" by the American Mothers Committee of the Golden Rule Foundation in New York
• 1946 Start of the three-year Pilbara strike by indigenous Aboriginals in Western Australia for better wages and conditions [1]
• 1946 The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy
• 1947 Cleveland Indians abandon League Park (venue for weekday games) to play all MLB games at Municipal Stadium
• 1947 General Hoyt Vandenberg, ends his term as the second head of the CIA
• 1947 Radar for commercial and private planes are first demonstrated
• 1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter becomes the third Director of the CIA and the first director of the agency after the dissolution of its predecessor, the CIG
• 1948 Idaho Senator Glen Taylor is arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door labeled "for Negroes"
• 1948 North Korea proclaims itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Auspicia Quaedam

1948 Pope Pius XII publishes the encyclical letter Auspicia quaedam, calling for public prayers for world peace and for a resolution to the problems of Palestine

• 1949 Athletics' Elmer Valo is the first AL baseball player to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
• 1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, Neptune's second-largest moon
• 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks is the first African American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Annie Allen"
• 1950 Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans the traditional May Day parade
• 1950 New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic of China

• 1950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, Michigan (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1951 600,000 people march for peace and freedom in Berlin, Germany
• 1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces a new church choir
• 1951 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Mickey Mantle hits first career home run in 8-3 win v White Sox in Chicago; Minnie Miñoso homers in Sox debut
• 1952 Mr. Potato Head is first introduced by toy company Hasbro
• 1952 Trans World Airlines introduces tourist class
• 1952 US Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
• 1954 Dutch Roman Catholic bishops publish Episcopal Mandate forbidding membership in the socialist trade union
• 1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form the American Motors Corporation [1]
• 1954 The Unification Church (HSA-UWC) is founded by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul
• 1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller tosses his record 12th 1-hitter in Indians' 2-0 win v Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Stadium

1955 Showgirl Linda Lawson is crowned "Miss-Cue" in the Atomic Pageant, after the Operation Cue test is repeatedly delayed by high winds

• 1956 A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system," marking the official discovery of Minamata disease
• 1957 Flevo Boys Football Club is established in Emmeloord, the Netherlands

King's First Radio Broadcast

1957 Larry King makes his first radio broadcast on station WAHR (1490 AM) in Miami Beach, Florida

• 1957 US gives Poland credit of $95 million
• 1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches an altitude of 121 miles (195 km)
• 1958 Ambonese rebellion bombs Ambon, conquers Morotai
• 1958 Arturo Frondizi sworn in as President of Argentina

Patterson vs. London

1959 Floyd Patterson scores 11th round KO of Englishman Brian London in Indianapolis; his 4th World Heavyweight Boxing title defence

• 1959 West Germany introduces a 5-day work week
• 1960 India's Bombay State formally dissolves as the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra are formed

Soviets Shoot Down US Spy Plane

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers's U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union

No Time for Elections

1961 Fidel Castro declares that there will be no more elections in Cuba, saying, "The revolution has no time for elections"

• 1961 First US airplane hijacked to Cuba, National Airlines Convair 440

Pulitzer Prize

1961 Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Harper Lee for her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"

• 1961 Tanganyika gains independence from the UK and joins the Commonwealth
• 1962 First French underground nuclear test in the Sahara at Ecker, Algeria

Area Redevelopment Act

1962 US President John F. Kennedy authorizes the Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)

A Bunny's Tale

1963 Gloria Steinem's exposé, "A Bunny's Tale," about the working conditions for waitresses or Bunnies at New York City's famed Playboy Club, is published in Show magazine

• 1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from the Netherlands
• 1963 Jim Whittaker becomes the first American to summit Mount Everest
• 1964 First BASIC program runs on a computer at Dartmouth College
• 1965 Battle of Dongyin, a naval conflict between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, takes place
• 1965 Stanley Cup, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Dick Duff has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-0 in Game 7 to take title 4-3
• 1966 Last British concert by the Beatles at Empire Pool in Wembley, London
• 1966 Radio RSA: The Voice of South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
• 1966 United States attacks Cambodia for the first time in the Vietnam War

• 1967 Bernard Malamud wins the Pulitzer Price in Fiction for "The Fixer"
• 1967 Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of the Dutch Central Bank

PBS Funding

1969 Children's educational television host Fred Rogers testifies before US Senate Subcommittee on Communications to secure funding for creation of PBS

• 1969 Houston Astros hurler Don Wilson blanks Reds, 4-0 for second career no-hitter, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati

Clouds

1969 Reprise Records releases "Clouds," the second studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell

• 1969 Trucking magnate Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for a professional sports record of $16.15 million
• 1971 Amtrak begins operations with its first train running from New York City to Philadelphia
• 1971 Rolling Stones release single "Brown Sugar"
• 1972 North Vietnamese troops successfully occupy Quảng Trị city
• 1972 Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Wallace Stegner for his novel "Angle of Repose"
• 1972 Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres as the first national full-service radio network aimed at African Americans
• 1976 Empress Lilly, a replica paddle steamer, is dedicated at Walt Disney World in Florida
• 1977 36 people are killed in Taksim Square in Istanbul during Labor Day celebrations
• 1977 American golfer Debbie Austin wins the Birmingham Classic, the first of 5 LPGA Tour victories in a 4-month span
• 1977 American golfer Gene Littler wins the Houston Open, his 29th and final PGA title
• 1977 French runner Chantal Langlacé sets female world marathon record (2:35:15.4) in Oyarzun, Spain
• 1978 Ernest Nathan Morial becomes the first African American mayor of New Orleans

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

1978 Jackie Chan's breakthrough film "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" directed by Yuen Woo-ping, is released in Hong Kong

• 1978 Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura becomes the first person to reach the North Pole in a solo expedition

Elton John Rocks Israel

1979 British pop superstar Elton John performs in Israel for the first time, kicking off a mini tour of five shows in six nights

• 1979 Greenland's Home Rule Act is introduced, transferring responsibilities from Denmark to Greenland
• 1979 Marshall Islands becomes self-governing and independent from the US with the adoption of its constitution
• 1980 American Book Awards: William Styron's "Sophie's Choice" wins Fiction, Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff" wins General Nonfiction
• 1981 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 1.3 for the TRS-80 Model III

Billie Jean King Comes Out

1981 Tennis player Billie Jean King acknowledges her relationship with Marilyn Barnett, becoming one of the first prominent female athletes in the US to come out

• 1981 US Senator Harrison Williams Jr. is convicted on all counts of bribery during the FBI Abscam sting operation
• 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, opens to a crowd of 87,000

• 1984 Great Britain conducts a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
• 1984 Mick Fleetwood, drummer and leader of Fleetwood Mac, files for bankruptcy
• 1984 NFL Draft: Nebraska University wide receiver Irving Fryar first pick, by New England Patriots
• 1985 Communist Combatant Cells (CCC) bomb attack on the Federation of Belgian Enterprises kills two firefighters in Brussels

• 1985 William Hoffman's "As Is" premieres in NYC

1986 TASS, the Russian news agency, finally reports on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster

• 1986 Will Steger's expedition reaches the North Pole

Beatification of Edith Stein

1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born nun killed in Auschwitz

• 1988 After scoring 50 points in Game 1, NBA Eastern Conference playoff series, Michael Jordan has 55 in Chicago Bulls 106-101 win vs Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 2; first to score 50+ points in consecutive playoff games
• 1988 Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, kills three British servicemen and wounds three more
• 1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio theme park officially opens to public in Lake Buena Vista, Florida
• 1989 American jockey Chris Antley's record 64-day consecutive winning streak ends when he fails with 5 mounts at Aqueduct, NY; streak includes 147 winners from 486 mounts
• 1989 Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins: US Supreme Court rules that employers bear the legal burden of proving nondiscriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting

World Wide Web

1989 Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN, submits his initial proposal for the World Wide Web (WWW)

• 1990 Craig Lucas' stage drama "Prelude to a Kiss" moves to the Helen Hayes Theatre, NYC; runs for 440 performances

Rickey Breaks Stolen Base Record

1991 A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals all time MLB record 939th base in 7-4 win vs New York Yankees in Oakland

• 1991 Skin-Spit-Skin, featuring lesbian, gay, and heterosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 people in New York City
• 1991 Texas Rangers starter Nolan Ryan pitches MLB record 7th no hitter; beats Toronto, 3-0; at 44, Ryan is oldest to throw no-hitter
• 1992 Danielle Steel’s historical romance novel “Jewels” is published
• 1992 Eric Houston kills four people at Lindhurst High School in California, where he failed history four years earlier

1992 Los Angeles Dodgers postpone 3 MLB games due to racial riots over the infamous Rodney King beating

• 1992 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th MLB career base in A's 7-6 win at Detroit
• 1993 Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated along with 21 others by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber in Colombo
• 1994 American broadcast journalist Charles Kuralt (On the Road) retires from CBS after 37 years

Ayrton Senna's Fatal Crash

1994 Three-time World Formula 1 Drivers champion Ayrton Senna of Brazil is killed in a 309 kmh crash whilst leading the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola in Italy

• 1994 Tornadoes and hailstorms hit Fujian Province in southern China, causing flooding and killing 86 people
• 1995 "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" single released by John Michael Montgomery (Billboard Song of the Year 1995)

Operation Flash

1995 Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence

• 1995 Future Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh scores career best 200 including 231 partnership with brother Mark (126) in 4th Test win over West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica
• 1995 Montreal Canadiens lose 2-0 at Buffalo to miss Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 25 years
• 1996 Miami Heat beaten, 112-91 to Chicago Bulls to be swept 3-0 in round 1 of NBA Eastern Division playoffs; first time in his 14 years as head coach Pat Riley ousted in the opening round
• 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego, California on KIOZ 105.3 FM
• 1997 Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality

Labour's Landslide Victory

1997 Tony Blair is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after the Labour Party wins in a landslide

SpongeBob SquarePants

1999 Animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants," created by Stephen Hillenburg, debuts on Nickelodeon

Bonds Splashes Into Bay

2000 Barry Bonds is first MLB player to hit a homer into San Francisco Bay as Giants beat Mets, 10-3; hits 35 there during his SF career

EDSA III Revolt

2001 President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares a state of rebellion after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm toward the presidential palace during the height of the EDSA III rebellion

• 2002 Padres closer Trevor Hoffman sets MLB record for saves for one team (321) in 4-3 win v Chicago Cubs in San Diego

Mission Accomplished

2003 In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California

• 2004 Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union and celebrate at the residence of the Irish president in Dublin
• 2004 Giants outfielder Barry Bonds sets MLB record for being intentionally walked 4 times in a 9-inning game during 6-3 defeat of Florida in SF
• 2005 17-year old Lionel Messi scores his 1st senior league goal for FC Barcelona in 2-0 win against Albacete Balompié, at the Spotify Camp Nou in Barcelona
• 2006 The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow

Kate Moss for Topshop

2007 British model Kate Moss launches a clothing line with chain Topshop

God is not Great

2007 Christopher Hitchens publishes his bestseller "God is not Great" making a case against organized religion

• 2007 The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally becomes a matter of controversy
• 2008 The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention
• 2009 Carol Ann Duffy becomes the first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly LGBTQ person appointed as British Poet Laureate

Kochhar Leads ICICI

2009 Chanda Kochhar takes over from K. V. Kamath as CEO and Managing Director of ICICI Bank

• 2009 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden
• 2010 Canadian singer Bryan Adams is given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts
• 2010 Car bomb fails to detonate in Times Square, New York City, in an attempted terrorist attack
• 2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI
• 2012 China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
• 2012 Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion
• 2013 15 people are killed by multiple bomb attacks across Iraq
• 2013 16 people are killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia
• 2013 A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eyes
• 2013 Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand
• 2014 Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
• 2015 Expo 2015 opens in Milan, Italy (closes 31st October)

Corgan Buys the NWA

2017 "The Smashing Punpkins" singer Billy Corgan agrees to purchase the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)

• 2017 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Mark Selby defends title beating John Higgins of Scotland, 18-15; his third world crown
• 2018 Chinese authorities label British cartoon "Peppa Pig" subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website

Footballer of the Year

2018 Liverpool's Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah becomes the first African player to be named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year

• 2018 Scotland is the first country in the world to introduce a minimum price on alcohol
• 2018 Violent May Day protests in Paris by far-left Black Blocs group result in 200 arrests
• 2019 Argentine forward Lionel Messi scores twice for his 600th goal for FC Barcelona in a 3-0 home win over Liverpool in a Champions League semi final
• 2019 Evidence reveals that early humans from ancient Denisovan species lived at high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau 160,000 years ago

Emperor Naruhito

2019 Naruhito officially succeeds his father Akihito as the Emperor of Japan after the latter abdicated due to ill health

• 2019 New York City officially names a street Sesame Street at the intersection of West 63rd Street and Broadway in honor of the show's 50th anniversary
• 2019 Two-time South African Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya loses appeal against proposed rules to limit her testosterone levels; medically reducing levels the only way to continue competition
• 2019 UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson fired over leaking information about Huawei deal from a UK National Security Council meeting by Theresa May
• 2019 US Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee, defending his handling of the Mueller Report

Assange Sentenced to Jail

2019 Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching his bail conditions in London

• 2020 Armed protesters against stay-at-home-orders gather at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, as Governor Gretchen Whitmer reinstates State of Emergency

Trudeau Bans Assault Weapons

2020 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 types of assault-style weapons in response to recent Nova Scotia shooting

• 2020 Prison riot leaves more than 40 dead and many injured at Los Llanos jail, near Guanare city, Venezuela

Musk's Expensive Tweet

2020 Tweets by Elon Musk saying Tesla's share price is too high wipe $14 billion off the carmaker's value

• 2021 India is the first country to record more than 400,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day (401,993) [1]
• 2022 First of two sets of human remains revealed by receding Lake Mead, US's largest reservoir, near Las Vegas likely linked to mob activity in the 1970s and 80s [1]

Lavrov's anti-Semitic Outburst

2022 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Adolf Hitler "had Jewish blood" in interview on Italian TV, prompting outrage from Israel [1]

Pelosi Visits Ukraine

2022 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads surprise congressional delegation to Ukraine to met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy [1]

Godfather of AI Sounds Alarm

2023 Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," resigns from Google to speak out about the dangers of AI, including job loss and the possibility that many may "not be able to know what is true anymore" [1]

Russian Losses Mount

2023 US White Houses estimates Russia has lost 100,000 troops so far in 2023 invading Ukraine, with 20,000 killed; half of those losses from Wagner mercenaries [1]