Events

• 927 - Battle of the Bosnian Highlands: Simeon I of Bulgaria is defeated by King Tomislav of Croatia.
• 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed as prince two weeks before his untimely death.
• 1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• 1328 - Philip VI is crowned King of France.
• 1647 - Peter Stuyvesant was inaugurated as Director-General of New Netherland.
• 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1798 - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
• 1812 - South American Wars of Independence: In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba fight against the Spanish army.
• 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
• 1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
• 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian Unification.
• 1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is imprisoned for sodomy.
• 1896 - The F4-strength St. Louis-East St. Louis Tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri and East Saint Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damages (1997 USD).
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 1907 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
• 1908 - Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din iss elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.
• 1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
• 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
• 1930 - The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
• 1933 - New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
• 1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• 1933 - The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
• 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• 1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
• 1940 - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops.
• 1941 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
• 1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
• 1942 - World War II: In Operation Anthropoid Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Prague.
• 1957 - Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
• 1958 - The F-4 Phantom II first flight.
• 1960 - In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celal Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
• 1967 - Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
• 1967 - The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is christened by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
• 1968 - The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
• 1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
• 1975 - The Dibble's Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England kills 32 (the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom).
• 1980 - The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
• 1995 - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
• 1996 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
• 1997 - A F5 tornado strikes Jarrell, Texas killing 27 people.
• 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
• 1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milo?evi? and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• 2006 - The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

Births

• 1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (d. 1406)
• 1519 - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian (d. 1594)
• 1576 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
• 1601 - Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
• 1623 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
• 1626 - William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
• 1651 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
• 1652 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1722)
• 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
• 1756 - King Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
• 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1877)
• 1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American suffragette (d. 1894)
• 1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer (d. 1910)
• 1820 - Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
• 1827 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (d. 1892)
• 1836 - Jay Gould, American financier (d. 1892)
• 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
• 1837 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
• 1860 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, 7^th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
• 1864 - Ante Trumbi?, Croatian politician (d. 1938)
• 1867 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (d. 1931)
• 1871 - Georges Rouault, French painter and graphic artist (d. 1958)
• 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (d. 1945)
• 1878 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (d. 1927)
• 1879 - Karl Bühler, German linguist and psychologist (d. 1963)
• 1879 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962)
• 1884 - Max Brod, Austrian author (d. 1968)
• 1888 - Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
• 1891 - Claude Champagne, French-Canadian composer (d. 1965)
• 1893 - Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005)
• 1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (d. 1961)
• 1894 - Dashiell Hammett, American author (d. 1961)
• 1897 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1900 - U?adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d. 1933)
• 1904 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
• 1907 - Rachel Carson, American biologist and science writer (d. 1964)
• 1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey, American politician (d. 1978)
• 1911 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician (d. 2007)
• 1911 - Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1912 - John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)
• 1912 - Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
• 1912 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
• 1913 - Wols, German painter (d. 1951)
• 1915 - Herman Wouk, American writer
• 1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician
• 1921 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (d. 1960)
• 1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
• 1923 - Henry Kissinger, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1923 - Sumner Redstone, American entrepreneur
• 1925 - Tony Hillerman, American writer
• 1930 - John Barth, American novelist
• 1930 - William S. Sessions, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1933 - Ted Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur
• 1934 - Harlan Ellison, American author
• 1935 - Lee Meriwether, Miss America and actress
• 1935 - Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
• 1935 - Mal Evans, British Beatles assistant (d. 1976)
• 1936 - Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
• 1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
• 1937 - Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)
• 1939 - Socratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
• 1942 - Lee Baca, American law enforcement official
• 1943 - Cilla Black, English singer and presenter
• 1943 - Bruce Weitz, American actor
• 1944 - Christopher Dodd, American politician
• 1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
• 1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Canadian musician
• 1946 - Lewis Collins, English actor
• 1946 - Niels-Henning Řrsted Pedersen, Danish musician (d. 2005)
• 1947 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer
• 1948 - Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
• 1951 - Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
• 1954 - Pauline Hanson, Australian politician
• 1954 - Jackie Slater, American football player
• 1955 - Richard Schiff, American actor
• 1955 - Eric Bischoff, American professional wrestling promoter
• 1956 - Cynthia McFadden, American television anchor
• 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
• 1957 - Duncan Goodhew, English Olympic Games gold medalist swimmer
• 1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter (Split Enz, Crowded House)
• 1958 - Linnea Quigley, American actress
• 1961 - Peri Gilpin, American actress
• 1962 - Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
• 1962 - Steven Brill, American film writer and director
• 1964 - Adam Carolla, American comedian and television personality
• 1965 - Todd Bridges, American actor
• 1967 - Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
• 1968 - Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
• 1968 - Frank Thomas, American baseball player
• 1969 - Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
• 1969 - Dondre Whitfield, American actor
• 1970 - Tim Farron, British politician
• 1970 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
• 1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
• 1970 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
• 1971 - Paul Bettany, English actor
• 1971 - Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer
• 1971 - Kaur Kender, Estonian author
• 1971 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
• 1971 - Glenn Ross, Northern Irish strongman
• 1971 - Monika Schnarre, Canadian model
• 1972 - Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
• 1972 - Todd Demsey, American golfer
• 1973 - Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
• 1974 - Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call)
• 1974 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player
• 1975 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
• 1975 - Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
• 1975 - Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
• 1975 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
• 1976 - RJD2, American hip-hop producer
• 1976 - Anita Blonde, Hungarian porn star
• 1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
• 1977 - Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1977 - Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch footballer
• 1978 - Adin Brown, American soccer player
• 1979 - Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
• 1981 - Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
• 1981 - Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
• 1981 - Miloy, Angolan footballer
• 1981 - Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot distance runner
• 1983 - Bobby Convey, American soccer player
• 1984 - Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
• 1984 - Blake Ahearn, NBA basketball player
• 1985 - Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1990 - Ekaterina Zaikina, Russian figure-skater

Deaths

• 366 - Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 326)
• 735 - Bede, English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)
• 866 - Ordońo I of Asturias, King of Asturias (b. 831)
• 927 - Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864 or 865)
• 1039 - Dirk III, Count of Holland
• 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (b. 1404)
• 1508 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1452)
• 1525 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
• 1541 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
• 1564 - John Calvin, French religious reformer (b. 1509)
• 1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
• 1615 - Marguerite de Valois, queen of Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
• 1661 - Archibald Campbell, Scottish religious dissident (b. 1607)
• 1675 - Gaspard Dughet, French painter (b. 1613)
• 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (b. 1626)
• 1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French critic (b. 1628)
• 1707 - Marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
• 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (b. 1716)
• 1797 - François-Noël Babeuf, French revolutionary (b. 1760)
• 1831 - Jedediah Smith, American explorer (b. 1799)
• 1840 - Niccolň Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1896 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (b. 1839)
• 1910 - Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
• 1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social activist (b. 1848)
• 1926 - Sre?ko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (b. 1904)
• 1941 - Gunther Lutjens, German admiral, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1889)
• 1941 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain, died in sinking of the German battleship Bismarck (b. 1894)
• 1947 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1949 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) (b. 1890)
• 1953 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (b. 1868)
• 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1963 - Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
• 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician (b. 1889)
• 1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German politician (b. 1889)
• 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1973 - P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor,singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1984 - Vincent James McMahon, was a U.S. professional wrestling promoter.
• 1986 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (b. 1921)
• 1987 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
• 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (b. 1907)
• 1990 - Robert B. Meyner, American politician (b. 1908)
• 1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904)
• 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
• 1993 - Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 - Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
• 2000 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
• 2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2000 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
• 2001 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
• 2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
• 2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
• 2006 - Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2006 - Alex Toth, American cartoonist (b. 1928)
• 2006 - Rob Borsellino, American columnist (b. 1949)
• 2006 - Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
• 2007 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
• 2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Gretchen Wyler, American actress (b. 1932)
• 2008 - Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)

Holidays and observances

• Khilafat -e- Ahmadiyya Celebrations all over the World
• Feast day of the following saints in the Christian Church:
  • Augustine of Canterbury
  • Saint Julius the Veteran
  • Pope John I
  • Hildebert
  • Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg
  • Eutropius
• Mother's Day in Bolivia (Día de la Madre)
• Children's Day in Nigeria

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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