Month: May 2023

1659 – Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague
1902 – Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1931 – French Championships Men’s Tennis: Jean Borotra wins his only home title; beats fellow Frenchman Christian Boussus 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
1934 – The Barmen Declaration is published by a group of
church leaders in Germany including Karl Barth to help Christians withstand the challenges of the Nazi party
1935 – 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in Balochistan, British India (now Pakistan) killing an estimated 40,000 people
1937 – Second largest crowd in Polo Grounds history (61,756) sees Brooklyn Dodgers beat NY Giants, 10-3, ending Carl Hubbell’s record consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1941 – German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach and swimming pools
1967 – Bayern Munchen of West Germany wins 7th European Cup Winner’s Cup against Rangers of Scotland 1-0 in Nuremberg
1982 – “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 63 performances
2018 – Uganda’s parliament imposes tax on social media to stop gossip

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1848 – William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1908 – Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1924 – Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1938 – New York Yankees sweep arch rival Boston Red Sox, 10-0 and 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1949 – NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1958 – Indianapolis 500: Jimmy Bryan wins a race best known for a massive first-lap, 15-car pileup that results in death of fan-favourite driver Pat O’Connor
1962 – 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1987 – Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 – North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1999 – Super Rugby Final, Carisbrook, Dunedin: Canterbury Crusaders retain title with a 24-19 win over Otago Highlanders; flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens kicks 3 penalties, a conversion and dropped goal for the winners

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1176 – Battle at Legnano: Lombard League beats Frederick Barbarossa and the Holy Roman Empire
1328 – French King Philip VI of Valois crowned at the Cathedral in Reims, France
1940 – In WWII, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France
1965 – American long jumper Ralph Boston sets then world record 27′ 4 3/4″ (8.35m) at Modesto, California
1977 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt. becomes first driver to win Indy 500 four times; last time winning car built entirely within US; Janet Guthrie first female to qualify, lasts 27 laps
1980 – Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
1983 – Indianapolis 500: Tom Sneva wins his first Indy 500; represents record 7th Indy victory for chief mechanic George Bignotti
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2004 – The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia kill 22
2016 – Indianapolis 500: American driver Alexander Rossi of Andretti Herta Autosport runs out of fuel on the final lap but coasts across line for the victory in 100th running of the race

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1934 – The Glyndebourne festival in Sussex, England, inaugurated
1937 – Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic
1940 – British-French troops capture Narvik, Norway
1949 – French Championships Women’s Tennis: Margaret Osborne duPont wins her second French singles crown; beats Nelly Adamson Landry of France 7-5, 6-2
1955 – 80th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Nashua wins in 1:54.6
1957 – WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 – Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, NY
1965 – Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
1968 – MLB: NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
2011 – UEFA Champions League Final, London: FC Barcelona beats Manchester United, 3-1; 4th title for Barça

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1199 – John crowned King of England after the death of his brother Richard I
1856 – Doctor William Palmer (the Rugeley Poisoner) found guilty of poisoning in Stafford, England
1898 – Arthur Pinero’s “Trelawney of the Wells” premieres in London
1920 – Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1931 – 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplane at Langley Field, Virginia
1952 – European Defense Community forms
1982 – New owners headed by John McMullen buy NHL’s Colorado Rockies and move the team to the New Jersey Meadowlands under the new name NJ Devils
1997 – Indianapolis 500: Dutchman Arie Luyendyk wins from pole position for his second Indy victory; Treadway Racing finishes 1-2 with Luyendyk’s teammate Scott Goodyear runner-up
2015 – Golden State Warriors win the NBA Western Conference
2018 – IPL Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai: Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets; Shane Watson top scores, 117 no (57); SK’s 3rd IPL title

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1887 – Racetrack betting becomes legal in NY state
1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat
1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law restricting immigration
1962 – “All American” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
1973 – British composer Michael Tippett’s 3rd Piano Sonata premieres
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)
1993 – 1st UEFA Champions League Final: Marseille beats Milan 1-0 at Munich
2012 – A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvinkaa kills 2, wounds 7
2013 – 66th Cannes Film Festival: “Blue Is the Warmest Colour” directed by Abdellatif Kechiche wins the Palme d’Or. The two main actresses in the film, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux also awarded
2020 – US restricts travel from Brazil as the country posts world’s second highest number of recorded cases of COVID-19

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1571 – Pope Pius V forms The Holy League to fight the Ottomans with other Catholic maritime states including Spain, Venice, Naples and Sicily
1868 – Australian Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins v Surrey Gentlemen
1943 – Agnes Moorehead appears in “Sorry, Wrong Number” on the radio program “Suspense”, her most successful appearance
1965 – Dave Davies of The Kinks knocked unconscious in an on stage scuffle with drummer Mick Avory at Cardiff’s Capital Theatre
1968 – Rolling Stones release song “Jumping Jack Flash”
1968 – Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7
1983 – Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show
2019 – First ever albino panda footage in the wild released (taken in April) from China’s Wolong National Nature Reserve
2021 – Coup in Mali as military Colonel Assimi Goïta ousts country’s civilian President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane arresting and detaining them

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