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1373 Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
1515 Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
1568 Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1779 War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1780 The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1804 Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1830 Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1846 MexicanAmerican War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
1862 The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
1865 American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 With the passage of the Lei Αurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1909 The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
1912 The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
1917 Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fαtima in Fαtima, Portugal.
1923 Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1943 World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1951 The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1954 The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1954 The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 The trademark Velcro is registered.
1958 May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
1958 Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
1960 Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1969 Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1972 The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1985 Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1992 Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1994 Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
1995 Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage.
2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2005 The Bνnh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2006 Sγo Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2008 The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
2011 Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
2014 An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.
2014 Major floods in Southeast Europe kill at least 47 people.
Events:C/P.
1373 Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
1515 Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
1568 Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
1648 Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
1779 War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
1780 The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1804 Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
1830 Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1846 MexicanAmerican War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
1848 First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1861 American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
1861 The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1861 Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
1862 The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
1865 American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 With the passage of the Lei Αurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1909 The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
1912 The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
1917 Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fαtima in Fαtima, Portugal.
1923 Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
1939 The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
1943 World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
1950 The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1951 The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
1954 The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
1954 The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
1958 The trademark Velcro is registered.
1958 May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
1958 Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
1960 Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
1963 The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
1967 Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
1969 Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1972 Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
1972 The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
1981 Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
1985 Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
1989 Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
1992 Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
1994 Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
1995 Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately 450 million in damage.
2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
2005 The Bνnh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
2006 Sγo Paulo violence: A major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
2008 The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
2011 Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
2014 An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.
2014 Major floods in Southeast Europe kill at least 47 people.