- 4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
Council of Frankfurt
794 Charles the Great (aka Charlemagne) opens general synod in Frankfurt
- 987 Hugh Capet (Hugh the Great) crowned King of the Franks in Noyon
- 1204 King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen
Genghis Khan Sacks Peking
1215 Peking, then a city of over one million under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, falls to the Mongols under Genghis Khan and is looted for a month
- 1283 Albert I, son of Rudolf I of Hapsburg made sole ruler of the Duchies of Austria and Styria under Treaty of Rheinfelden, removing his brother Rudolph II as co-ruler (leads later to Rudolph's son murdering his uncle)
- 1459 Pope Pius II opens the Council of Mantua to call for a new crusade against the Ottoman Empire - crusade never amounts to much (Council disbanded January 1560)
- 1485 Matthias of Hungary takes Vienna from Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III
- 1495 First written record of Scotch whisky appears in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is listed as the distiller
1543 Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius publishes "De humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body in seven books)" a major step forward in understanding human anatomy [date is representative as exact date of publication unknown]
- 1568 Duke of Alva oversees beheading of 18 nobles in Brussels as part of Council of Troubles/Council of Blood
- 1608 Valse Dimitri forms his 2nd Russian anti-government
- 1638 First earthquake recorded in the US occurs in Plymouth, Massachusetts
- 1641 France and Portugal sign anti-Spanish covenant
- 1649 Russian Tsar Alexis throws English merchants out of Moscow
- 1657 1st Quakers arrives in New Amsterdam (NY)
- 1660 Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Secret Treaty of Dover
1670 English King Charles II and French King Louis XIV sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, agreeing to a joint attack on the Dutch Republic and Charles II's conversion to Catholicism
1676 Battle of Öland: Allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea during the Scanian War (1675–79)
- 1679 The Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog
- 1746 French troops conquer Antwerp
1774 Boston Port Act: Following the passage of the act, the British government orders the Port of Boston closed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
- 1789 1st US congressional act becomes law (on administering oaths)
- 1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
- 1794 Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win.
- 1796 Last of Britain's troops withdraws from USA
- 1796 Tennessee admitted as 16th US state
- 1809 Allardyce Barclay begins a wager to walk 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours; each hour, he walks a mile round trip from his home
- 1813 Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship"
- 1831 British explorer James Clark Ross discovers the magnetic North Pole on the west coast of Boothia peninsula [1]
- 1834 HMS Beagle for anchor in Port Famine, Magallanes Street
- 1835 6th national black convention (Philadelphia)
- 1843 It snows in Buffalo and Rochester, NY, and Cleveland, Ohio
Sojourner Truth Hears the Spirit
1843 Sojourner Truth hears the Spirit of God and changes her name from Isabella Baumfree, leaving NY to begin travelling giving speeches against slavery [1]
- 1845 A homing pigeon completes an 11,000 km trip from Namibia to London in 55 days
Neue Rheinische Zeitung
1848 Revolutionary newspaper "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" is founded in Cologne by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and the Communist League
- 1855 US adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery
- 1857 Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) is published.
- 1861 1st skirmish in US Civil War at Fairfax Court House, Virginia
- 1861 British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War
- 1861 Skirmish at Arlington Mills, Virginia
- 1861 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange
- 1862 2nd/last day of battle at Fair Oaks/7 Pines Virginia (11,165 casualties)
- 1862 African Slave Trade Treaty Act: Bilateral treaty between the US and UK abolishing the slave trade in all US possessions
General Lee Assumes Command
1862 General Robert E. Lee assumes command after Joe Johnston is injured at Seven Pines
- 1864 -Nov] Shenandoah Valley campaign
- 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm)
- 1864 Confederate cruiser Georgia sold to a British merchant in Liverpool
- 1866 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
- 1866 Renegade Irish Fenians from US invade Fort Erie, Ontario
- 1868 Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
- 1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed allowing the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico
Electric Vote Recorder
1869 Thomas Edison granted his first patent for the Electric Vote Recorder (U.S. Patent 90,646)
- 1872 Charles Albanel's expedition sets off for Hudson Bay overland accompanied by sixteen Amerindian canoeists (they will be the first Europeans to reach it overland about 25 days later) [1]
- 1877 Society of American Artists forms
- 1877 US troops authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico
1879 Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed serving with British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War. He is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire.
- 1880 The first pay telephone service in the United States is installed in New Haven, Connecticut
- 1880 US census is 50,155,783
- 1881 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange
- 1881 Ridden by outstanding English jockey Fred Archer, Iroquois wins the Epsom Derby to become the first American-owned and bred horse to win a European classic race
- 1886 The railroads of the Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot rail gauge to standard gauge, beginning May 31
- 1888 California gets its 1st seismograph
- 1890 US census at 62,622,250
- 1893 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
- 1898 Hotelier Caesar Ritz opens the Ritz Hotel in Paris, the first hotel with electricity on every floor and separate bathrooms [1]
- 1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition opens in Omaha
- 1900 British army occupies Pretoria, South Africa
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition
1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
- 1907 -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
- 1908 John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of US, which took 357 days
- 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
- 1910 Sportclub Enschede soccer club forms in Enschede, Netherlands; merge with Enschedese Boys to form FC Twente in 1965
- 1911 1st Inter-Empire Sports Championships close in London
- 1911 1st US group insurance policy written in Passaic, New Jersey
- 1912 Dutch soccer club Stormvogels forms in Ijmuiden; merges with VSV to form Telstar in 1963
- 1913 The Serbian government concludes a ten-year treaty with Greece against Bulgaria; Serbia wishes to pursue Macedonian aspirations with Greece's help
- 1916 US Senate confirms Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court of the United States, by a vote of 47 to 22, over 4 months after his nomination
- 1917 Boston Braves first baseman Hank Gowdy is first active MLB player to enlist for service in World War I; only player to fight in both World War I & II
Billy Bishop Reclaims Record
1918 Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircraft over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden
- 1918 Chicago White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs; Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a rare game winning triple play
- 1919 Rhineland Republic forms in Wiesbaden
- 1920 Adolfo de la Huerta becomes President of Mexico
- 1920 Dutch soccer club RKSV forms in Volendam; merges with FC Volendam in 1977
Mussolini Threatens Revolt
1922 Over 50,000 Fascists gather for a meeting in Bologna where Mussolini warns that he will lead a full-scale revolt against a government favoring 'anti-Fascist reaction'
- 1922 Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded
- 1923 New York Giants rout Philadelphia Phillies, 22-5 at the Baker Bowl; first time in 20th century a MLB team has scored in every inning
Gehrig Begins Record Run
1925 Future NY Yankees Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig pinch hits for shortstop Pee-Wee Wanninge in a 5-3 loss to Washington; first of record 2,130 consecutive games
- 1926 Ignacy Mocicki elected President of Poland
- 1927 Peace Bridge between US and Canada opens
- 1933 Century of Progress world's fair opens in Chicago
1935 Compulsory driving tests and license plates introduced in the United Kingdom
- 1936 "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
- 1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY
- 1937 Chicago White Sox pitcher Bill Dietrich no-hits St Louis Browns, 8-0 at Comiskey Park, Chicago
- 1937 Edith Wharton suffers a heart attack and collapses at the French country home of Ogden Codman
- 1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
- 1939 British submarine "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard
1st Major Fight on Television
1939 First major boxing match on US television is the heavyweight bout from NY's Yankee Stadium between former world champion Max Baer and Lou Nova; Nova wins by TKO in 11th round
- 1939 First night MLB game takes place at Philadelphia's Shibe Park; Phillies lose 5-2 to Pittsburgh Pirates
- 1939 Retired German Colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
- 1940 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
- 1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery returns to London
- 1940 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
- 1941 12.59" (31.98 cm) rainfall, in Burlington, Kansas (state 24-hr record)
- 1941 British troops occupy Baghdad, Iraq
- 1941 Future Hall of Fame outfielder Mel Ott hits his 400th career HR and his 1,500th RBI to help New York Giants to a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds
- 1941 Germany bans all Catholic publications
- 1941 Germany occupies Crete after Allied evacuation
- 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, 13 passengers, included actor Leslie Howard, and 4 crew die
- 1943 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Rip Sewell patents his "eephus" or "blooper ball" pitch; uses pitch on way to a 20-win campaign
1944 Allied generals Bernard Montgomery, George S. Patton, Omar Bradley, Miles Dempsey and Harry Crerar meet in Portsmouth, England just prior to D-Day
- 1944 Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots
- 1944 Washington Senators MLB outfielder Stan Spence goes 6-for-6 in an 11-5 win over the St. Louis Browns; collects 5 singles and a home run
- 1945 WLB-AM in Minneapolis Minn changes call letters to KUOM
- 1947 OPA, which issued WW II rationing coupons, disbands
- 1947 The development of photosensitive glass, which had occurred ten years previously, is announced publicly
- 1948 Israel & Arabs agree to a cease fire
- 1949 British government grants Cyrenaica (East-Libya) independence
- 1949 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1950 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
- 1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
- 1951 International Cheese treaty signed
- 1951 Massey Commission issues its landmark report in Canada, advocating for funding wide range of cultural activities (resulted in the founding of the National Library of Canada) [1]
Church Bans Gides Completed Works
1952 The Catholic Church places André Gide's "Labor" on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (List of Prohibited Books)
- 1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 Czech distance runner Emile Zatopek breaks his own 10,000m world record, clocking 28:54.2 in Brussels, Belgium
- 1955 Tunisian nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba returns to Tunisia after imprisonment and exile in France
- 1957 Don Bowden becomes first American to run a sub-4 minute mile (3:58.7) at the Pacific Association AAU Meet in Stockton, California
- 1958 Belgian christian-democrats win parliamentary election
- 1958 The Riverside International Raceway in Southern California opens with three 500-mile races in one weekend; Eddie Gray wins the Crown America 500 for NASCAR Grand National cars
- 1959 Constitution of Tunisia promulgated (National Day)
- 1959 Two-time defending champion Monterrey, Mexico ruled ineligible to compete in Little League Baseball World Series for using players outside predetermined geographical area
- 1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, West Vrirginia (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 FM multiplex stereo broadcasting 1st heard
- 1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes
- 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
- 1963 "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17
First Prime Minister of Kenya
1963 Jomo Kenyatta is sworn in as the first prime minister of the Dominion of Kenya
- 1964 Rolling Stones arrive in New York's Kennedy International Airport for 1st US tour, greeted by about 500 fans
- 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson at Bell Labs detect 3 K cosmic microwave background radiation, helping confirm the Big Bang theory (1978 Nobel Prize) [1]
- 1965 Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236
- 1965 Robert Manry begins his 78 day voyage to sail a 13.5-foot yacht "Tinkerbelle" across the Atlantic Ocean
- 1966 2,400 people attend White House Conference on Civil Rights
- 1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic for the second time
- 1966 Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW
1967 EMI releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" nation-wide in the UK; it goes to number one for 22 weeks in the UK
- 1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C.
- 1968 Simon & Garfunkel's single "Mrs. Robinson" from "The Graduate" hits #1 (first rock song to win a Grammy for Record of the Year)
- 1968 St. Louis Cardinals side-arming left-hander Joe Hoerner ties NL record for most consecutive strikeouts by a relief pitcher, fanning the final 6 batters to earn a 6-5 victory over the New York Mets
- 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
Everything Is Beautiful Hits #1
1970 "Everything Is Beautiful" single by Ray Stevens hits #1
Kuhn Reprimands Bouton
1970 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn reprimands Houston Astros pitcher Jim Bouton for writing the memoir *Ball Four*, a candid season-long diary that Kuhn deems "detrimental to baseball"
- 1970 Soviet Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
Amazing Grace
1972 Atlantic Records releases "Amazing Grace," a live double-album by American singer Aretha Franklin, recorded at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles; a critical and commercial success, wins 1973 Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel Performance, selling over two million copies in the US becoming best seller of her career, as well as highest selling live gospel music album of all time
- 1972 Dmitri Shostakovich's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
- 1972 Iraq nationalizes Iraq Petroleum Company's (IPC) concession owned by British Petroleum, Royal Dutch-Shell, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Mobil and Standard Oil of New Jersey
- 1972 Tswanaland becomes Bophuthatswana in South Africa
- 1973 Eight OPEC countries raise price of petroleum by 11.9 percent
- 1973 George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" album goes gold, 2 days after its US release
- 1973 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"
- 1974 "My Girl Bill" by Jim Stafford hits #12
- 1974 Arab oil ministers decide to end most restrictions on exports of oil to the United States but continue embargo against the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, and Rhodesia
- 1974 Bundy victim Brenda Ball disappears from Burien, Washington
- 1974 Chemical plant explodes in Flixborough Lincolnshire killing 28 in UK
- 1974 The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
- 1975 California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan records his record equalling 4th MLB career no-hitter in beating the Baltimore Orioles, 1-0
- 1975 Cars in the Netherlands required to have seatbelts
- 1975 Ronnie Wood replaces Mick Taylor as Rolling Stones guitarist, who was asked to leave
- 1976 Great Britain and Iceland end the "cod war"
- 1977 British Virgin Islands adopts constitution
- 1977 Dutch soccer club FC Volendam is established as a result of split up with RKSV; 6-time Eerste Divisie champions
- 1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
- 1978 England cricket fast bowler Chris Old becomes only third man to capture 4 wickets in 5 balls in a Test, as Pakistan dismissed for 164 in 1st Test at Edgbaston; Old 5 for 70
- 1978 Future England cricket captain David Gower makes his Test debut in 1st Test against Pakistan in Birmingham; England win by an innings and 57 runs
Menten Affair
1978 High Council destroys judgment against Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten
- 1978 The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed
- 1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe Rhodesia's 1st black Prime Minister, the first leader of a black-led government in 90 years
- 1979 Los Angeles passes its first homosexual rights bill
- 1979 Ted Coombs begins 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to New York City
- 1979 Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
- 1979 Wings release single "Old Siam, Sir"
- 1980 ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
- 1980 Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in California
- 1980 First baseman Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Brooklyn / LA Dodgers home run in a 9-5 loss at home to the Atlanta Braves
- 1980 First transmission of the Cable News Network or CNN
- 1981 Jaffna Public Library, repository of Tamil culture and one of the largest libraries in Asia, is burnt to the ground by a Sinhalese crowd
- 1982 Oakland A's left fielder Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases in 3-2 win over Boston Red Sox to become fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a MLB season
- 1984 Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
- 1984 KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
- 1984 Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
- 1984 Russian super heavyweight weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev snatches world record 211 kg
- 1985 "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
- 1986 40th Tony Awards: "I'm Not Rappaport" (play) & "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (musical) win
Most Combined Wins by Brothers
1987 Cleveland Indians pitcher Phil Niekro beats Detroit Tigers, 9-6 for his 314th MLB victory; combines with Joe Niekro (216) for most combined wins by brothers in baseball history (530)
- 1988 "Morton Downey Jr Show" debuts in TV syndication
- 1988 Train crash kills two in Zeeland, Netherlands
- 1989 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
- 1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
- 1990 Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a record high of 2,900.97
- 1992 E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
- 1992 Snowfall in Colorado
- 1992 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Chicago Blackhawks, 6-5 for a 3-1 series win; 2nd consecutive title for Penguins
- 1993 Brooklyn NY begins recycling
- 1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News
- 1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
- 1993 Melchior Ndadaye elected President of Burundi
- 1993 Phoenix Suns guard Dan Majerle sets a then NBA Playoff record by sinking 8 three-pointers during the Suns’ 120-114 win over Seattle in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals
- 1994 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
- 1994 Indiana guard Reggie Miller drills an NBA Playoff record 5 three-pointers in the 4th quarter of the Pacers’ 93-86 win over host New York Knicks in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals
- 1994 US General Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
- 1995 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
- 1995 Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers' scoreless inning streak ends at 39 in a 6-3 win over the Minnesota Twins
- 1996 American actor Woody Harrelson is arrested in Lee County, Kentucky, after he symbolically planted four hemp seeds to challenge the state law which did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana
- 1996 H. D. Deve Gowda becomes Prime Minister of India, serving until April 1997
- 1996 Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
- 1997 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
- 1997 51st Tony Awards: "Titanic" (musical) & "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" (play) win
- 1997 After a huge 7-month buildup, Donovan Bailey of Canada beats American superstar Michael Johnson in 150m race in Toronto; disappointingly, Johnson pulls up at 110m mark with quadriceps injury
- 1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, 12-year-old grandson sets her apartment on fire; she dies three weeks later because of severe burns
- 1997 LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero's bat breaks, revealing it is corked
- 1998 Australian Susie Maroney becomes first person to swim from Mexico to Cuba across shark and jellyfish-infested waters of the Yucatan Straits; swims 123-miles in 38 hours 33 minutes in a cage
- 1998 European Central Bank is founded in Brussels to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy
No Angel
1999 British singer Dido's debut album, "No Angel", is released in the United States
- 2000 The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
- 2001 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal (1972-2001), assassinated by his son Dipendra in the Nepalese Royal Massacre at 55 [1]
- 2001 Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv
- 2001 Nepalese Royal Massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his parents, two siblings, and five other family members during dinner at the Narayanhiti Palace, in Katmandu
Holyfield vs. Rahman
2002 In a battle of former heavyweight boxing champions in Atlantic City, Evander Holyfield beats Hasim Rahman by TKO; fight stopped 1:40 into 8th round because of giant welt above Rahman's left eye
- 2003 The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam
- 2005 The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection
- 2005 The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
Jack Kevorkian Released
2007 Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for the 1998 second-degree murder of Thomas Youk
- 2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
- 2008 Jason Koumas captains Wales for the first time
- 2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.
- 2009 General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the fourth largest bankruptcy in US history
- 2012 Johan Santana throws first no-hitter in the New York Mets' 50-year MLB history when he beats the St. Louis Cardinals, 8 - 0
- 2013 Bayern Munich defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 to win the DFB-Pokal and become the first German treble-winning team
- 2015 Cruise ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze River, less than 50 survive
- 2016 Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel is completed, the world’s longest at 57 km and at a cost of €11 billion, the most expensive
US Quits Paris Climate Agreement
2017 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
Beren and Lúthien
2017 “Beren and Lúthien,” compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father J.R.R. Tolkien's archives is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
PM Giuseppe Conte
2018 Law professor Giuseppe Conte is sworn in as Italian Prime Minister as head of a populist coalition
- 2018 Rouzan al-Najjar, a 22 year-old Palestinian medic is shot and killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, causing widespread condmnation
Rajoy Ousted in Vote
2018 Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy forced out of office by a no-confidence vote in parliament, filed by Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez
- 2018 US unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, lowest since 2000
- 2019 Mexican-American boxer Andy Ruiz Jr produces a huge upset when he stops English champion Anthony Joshua in 7 at Madison Square Garden; wins IBF, WBO, IBO and WBA world heavyweight titles
- 2019 Price of a movie ticket rises in Japan for the first time in 26 years from ¥1,800 to ¥1,900, while some cinemas keep the price the same
- 2020 US President Trump threatens to employ the military to quell protests across the country sparked by the death of George Floyd then walks with staff to St. John’s Church
- 2021 Malaysia begins a full two-week lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge with record 9,020 news cases recorded May 29
- 2021 Prehistoric carvings, between 4,000 and 5,000 years old depicting deer, found in Scotland for the first time at Kilmartin Glen, Argyll
Biden Visits Tulsa
2021 US President Joe Biden visits Tulsa, Oklahoma, marking 100 year anniversary of racial massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood
- 2021 US President Joe Biden's administration suspends oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing Donald Trump's decision
- 2022 Turkey officially changes its name to Türkiye at the United Nations and internationally [1]
- 2022 US Coast Guard Admiral Linda Fagan assumes the post of Commandant, becoming the first female commander of a US military branch
- 2023 US Congress passes bipartisan legislation raising $31.4 trillion debt ceiling avoiding a default, after deal struck between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy [1]
- 2024 World's largest-ever election ends in India after six weeks with 642 million people voting in the country's general election, including a record 312 million women [1]
Freedom Flotilla
2025 Freedom Flotilla ship Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza, Palestine, sets sail with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, and 10 other volunteers [1]
- 2025 Operation Spider Web: Ukrainian Security Service launches over 100 remotely piloted drones at military airfields across Russia targeting long-range bomber aircraft [1]
- 2025 Paris Saint-Germain football club fans cause chaos across France following the club's victory in the Champions League; two people die, 201 are injured, four stores are looted, hundreds are arrested in clashes with riot police, and one police officer is left in a coma [1]
- 2025 Right-wing Karol Nawrocki is elected President of Poland with 50.89% of the popular vote, defeating Rafał Trzaskowski [1]
