Sunday, May 30, 2004
May 30 - Today in History...
1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex
1434 Battle at Lipany
1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 University of Marburg (Germany) founded
1536 English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1588 Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
1631 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1808 Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1842 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 México ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1858 Hudson Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth MS
1862 Battle of Front Royal VA
1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA
1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) VA
1866 The opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus MS placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1879 92º F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland OH in May
1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1883 Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
1889 The brassiere is invented
1890 1st Dodger homerun (Dave Foutz)
1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 homeruns in 1 baseball game
1895 W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1899 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1903 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 40th Belmont Stakes: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
1907 41st Belmont Stakes: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 42nd Belmont Stakes: Joe Notter aboard Colin wins
1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City UT authorized
1909 National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1910 44th Belmont Stakes: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games
1913 New country of Albania is formed
1921 Lord Dunsany's "If" premieres in London
1921 Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WWI, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 Salzburg Austria votes to join Germany
1922 Cubs swap Max Flack for Cardinals Cliff Heathcote during the middle of a doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indianapolis 500
1925 Roger Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1927 Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers end Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24 over 2 seasons
1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
1938 Yankees sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 German capture Kreta
1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WWII
1942 Reichsführer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1946 Braves Bernard Malamud homerun shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die
1948 Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
1949 East Germans constitution approved
1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres
1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 23rd French Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Vic Seixas (6-3 6-4 1-6 6-2)
1953 23rd French Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2 6-4)
1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1954 Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca" premieres
1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government
1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL
1956 Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st homerun out of Yankee Stadium
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs England at Edgbaston
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
1959 "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 performances
1959 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 Roger Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 homeruns
1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres
1964 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
1964 Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1
1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
1964 Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 innings, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & New York's 22 K's in 2nd games
1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles"
1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up
1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curaçao
1970 "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
1970 Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking LSD apple juice
1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die
1971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 Willie Mays hits his 638th homerun, sets National League record of 1,950 runs scored
1972 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport
1973 Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup
1974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4
1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for the fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1977 Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
1979 Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
1979 Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to NYC
1980 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 Tiger relief pitcher John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1980 Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" closes at Alvin NYC after 5 performances
1982 Closest Indianapolis 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 American League president Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1984 National League suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1985 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 1
1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in the Indianapolis 500
1986 France performs nuclear test
1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for World Boxing Council heavyweight boxing title
1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for International Boxing Federation heavyweight boxing title
1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56
1990 Earthquake (6.4) hits Peru, killing 135
1991 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1992 New York Yankee pitcher Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1992 Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1992 UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1993 Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1993 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1996 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1996 Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
1996 John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
1997 Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex
1434 Battle at Lipany
1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 University of Marburg (Germany) founded
1536 English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
1539 Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto discovers Florida
1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1588 Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs Lisbon to invade England
1631 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague
1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1808 Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1842 John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 México ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1858 Hudson Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 Battle of Booneville MS - captured General Beauregard evacuates Corinth MS
1862 Battle of Front Royal VA
1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA
1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) VA
1866 The opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus MS placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
1872 Mahlon Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1879 92º F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland OH in May
1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1883 Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a stampede that kills 12
1889 The brassiere is invented
1890 1st Dodger homerun (Dave Foutz)
1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 homeruns in 1 baseball game
1895 W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1899 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1903 28th Preakness: W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 40th Belmont Stakes: Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
1907 41st Belmont Stakes: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 42nd Belmont Stakes: Joe Notter aboard Colin wins
1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City UT authorized
1909 National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1910 44th Belmont Stakes: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games
1913 New country of Albania is formed
1921 Lord Dunsany's "If" premieres in London
1921 Memorial to Captain Eddie Grant, killed in WWI, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 Salzburg Austria votes to join Germany
1922 Cubs swap Max Flack for Cardinals Cliff Heathcote during the middle of a doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indianapolis 500
1925 Roger Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1927 Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 20th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers end Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24 over 2 seasons
1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
1938 Yankees sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 German capture Kreta
1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WWII
1942 Reichsführer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1946 Braves Bernard Malamud homerun shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New York) 42 die
1948 Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
1949 East Germans constitution approved
1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres
1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 23rd French Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Vic Seixas (6-3 6-4 1-6 6-2)
1953 23rd French Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (6-2 6-4)
1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1954 Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca" premieres
1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government
1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee FL
1956 Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st homerun out of Yankee Stadium
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs England at Edgbaston
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII & Korean War buried in Arlington
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
1959 "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 performances
1959 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 Roger Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 homeruns
1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres
1964 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
1964 Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1
1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
1964 Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 innings, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & New York's 22 K's in 2nd games
1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles"
1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown up
1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curaçao
1970 "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
1970 Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking LSD apple juice
1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die
1971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 Willie Mays hits his 638th homerun, sets National League record of 1,950 runs scored
1972 3 Japanese PFL terrorists kill 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport
1973 Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup
1974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4
1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for the fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1977 Cleveland Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
1979 Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
1979 Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to NYC
1980 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 Tiger relief pitcher John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1980 Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" closes at Alvin NYC after 5 performances
1982 Closest Indianapolis 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 American League president Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1984 National League suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1985 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 1
1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in the Indianapolis 500
1986 France performs nuclear test
1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for World Boxing Council heavyweight boxing title
1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for International Boxing Federation heavyweight boxing title
1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56
1990 Earthquake (6.4) hits Peru, killing 135
1991 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1992 New York Yankee pitcher Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1992 Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1992 UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1993 Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1993 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1996 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1996 Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
1996 John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
1997 Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
