Warrant for Christopher Marlowe
1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe
Napoléon Proclaimed Emperor
1804 Napoléon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate
- 1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement to manufacture his invention, the lawn mower. Saturdays are ruined forever.
- 1899 World Goodwill Day: 26 nations meet at the First Hague Peace Conference
1952 Professor Willard Libby says England's prehistoric monument of Stonehenge dates back to 1848 BC
- 1953 American pilot Jacqueline Cochran (47) becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier
- 1969 Apollo 10 launches from Kennedy Space Center and later transmits the first live color television pictures of Earth from space
- 1970 The Beatles' final released LP, "Let It Be," is released in the US
- 1972 American basketball player John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
Braveheart
1995 "Braveheart" directed by and starring Mel Gibson and Sophie Marceau premieres at the Seattle Film Festival (Best Picture 1996)
- 1999 "Millennium," the Backstreet Boys' third studio album, is released; it becomes one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 30 million copies sold
- 2001 101-year-old Harold Stilson becomes oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one when he aces the 108-yard, par-3, 16th hole at Deerfield CC, FL
- 2024 706 people called Kyle gather in Kyle, Texas, attempting to break the record for a gathering of people with the same name (record is 2,325 Ivans 2017) [1]
