1^st-          1544-     Turkish army occupies Hungary

                1704-     1^st newspaper ad is published

1707-     Wales, Scotland, and England form the United Kingdom

                1840-     1^st sticky postage stamps are issued in England

                1844-     1^st telegraph message sent by Samuel Morse

                1853-     Argentina enacts its own constitution

                1862-     David Farragut captures New Orleans for the Union

                1867-     The South begins Reconstruction

                1908-     The most intense rain shower (2.47” in 3 minutes)

                1920-     Babe Ruth hits his first home run with the Yankees

                1925-     Cyprus becomes a British Colony

                1931-     Empire State Building opens

                1935-     Boulder Dam finished

                1940-     The Olympics are canceled for 1940

                1941-     Cheerios are introduced

                1944-     Messerschmitt ME-262, the first working jet aircraft, makes first flight

                1961-     Castro bans elections in Cuba

2^nd           1497-     John Cabot leaves on his journey to North America

1519-     Leonardo Da Vinci dies at 67 years old

                1536-     Henry VIII accuses Anna Boleyn of incest and adultery

                1776-     Spain and France both agree to give firearms to American rebels

1865-     The new President Johnson offers a reward of $100,000 for Jefferson Davis

1890-     Oklahoma Territory created

1930-     Des Moines defeats Wichita 13 to 6 to open the first ballpark with permanently installed lights

1969-     The Ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves England on maiden voyage to New York

1972-     J Edgar Hoover dies

                1997-     The security chief of the Republic of Texas Robert Scheidt surrenders

3^rd           1455-     Jews begin to flee Spain

1494-     Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica and names it “St. Iago”

1662-     Connecticut is granted a Royal Charter

1765-     1^st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia

1802-     Washington, D.C. is incorporated

1849-     Jacob Riis, a reporter in New York, is born

                1851-     Almost all of San Francisco is destroyed by a fire

1863-     Battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, VA, and Salem Church, VA

                1903-     Bing Crosby is born

1906-     Egypt takes control of the Sinai Peninsula

1944-     Meat rations end in United States

1952-     First airplane to land at North Pole

1971-     The first National Public Radio broadcast

1997-     Garry Kasparov starts his chess match with the IBM supercomputer called “Deep Blue”

4^th           1494-     Christopher Columbus sets foot on Jamaica

                1626-     Native Americans sell the Island of Manhattan for $24

1776-     Rhode Island declares its independence from Great Britain

1846-     Michigan abolishes the death penalty in the state

1862-     Civil War Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia

1878-     The Phonograph is revealed for the first time

1886-     The Haymarket Riot occurs in Chicago

1891-     Sherlock Homes fictionally dies

                1910-     Tel Aviv, Israel incorporated as a city

                1923-     New York State repeals the prohibition act

                1932-     Al Capone goes into Atlanta Penitentiary

                1942-     The Battle of the Coral Sea began; food rationing began in U.S.

                1946-     Beginning of a two day long riot at Alcatraz Prison

                1961-     Freedom Riders began their bus trip through the South

                1983-     People’s Republic of China performs a nuclear test

5^th           1821-     Napolean dies in exile from France

                1862-     The Mexicans win a major battle that is now celebrated as Cinco de Mayo

                1945-     A Japanese bomb kills six people in Oregon

                1961-     Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. becomes the first American in space

6^th           1937-     The Hindenburg disaster takes 36 of its passengers’ lives in Lakehurst, New Jersey

1954-     The world’s first four minute mile is run

                1994-     The tunnel that runs under the English Channel between Britain and France opens

7^th           1763-     Pontiac’s Rebellion begins in Michigan

1915-     The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland

8^th           1541-     Hernando De Soto reaches the Mississippi River near modern-day Memphis

                1973-     Native American rebels surrender at Wounded Knee

                1984-     USSR refuses to compete at the Los Angeles Olympics

9^th           1671-     Thomas Blood, known as “Captain Blood,” tries to steal the English Crown Jewels

                1926-     The day that Richard E. Byrd claims that he flew over the North Pole

                1960-     The FDA approves the first birth control pill

                1978-     Former Prime Minister of Italy is found dead in the back of a car in Rome

10^th         1865-     Jefferson Davis is caught with his wife near Irwinville, Georgia

                1869-     The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads are joined in Utah, finishing the United States’ Transcontinental Railroad

                1940-     Winston Churchill becomes the British Prime Minister

                1994-     Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as the first black president of South America

11^th         1812-     Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, is assassinated by John Bellingham

                1858-     Minnesota becomes the 32^nd state in the Union

                1987-     The former Nazi Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie goes on trial for 177 crimes against humanity

12^th         1937-     George VI is crowned King of the United Kingdom

                1949-     The Blockade of Berlin is ended by the USSR

13^th         1568-     Queen Mary of the Scots is defeated at the Battle of Langside

                1607-     Jamestown, Virginia is founded

                1981-     Pope John Paul II is shot by Turkish murderer Mehmet Ali Agca

14^th         1796-     An English doctor, Edward Jenner, tests his smallpox vaccine

                1804-     Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis, Missouri

                1948-     The existence of the nation of Israel is declared

1973-     America’s first space station, called Skylab, is launched into orbit

15^th         1756-     The Seven Years War, also known as the French and Indian War, begins

                1941-     The first jet built by the allies is flown for the first time

1963-     Gordon Cooper is launched into space for 34 hours, the first American to spend more than a day in space.

                1972-     George Wallace, a presidential candidate, was shot

16^th         1770-     Louis marries Marie Antoinette in France

                1968-     A general strike of millions of industrial workers in France begins

                1975-     Junko Tabei, a Japanese woman, becomes the first woman to climb Mount Everest

17^th         1954-     The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in the case of Brown V. Board of Education

                1970-     A Norwegian ethnologist named Thor Heyerdahl and his crew crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a boat made out of Papyrus just like the boats that ancient Egyptian built to prove his theory that ancient Mediterranean cultures could have crossed the Atlantic and traded with Native Americans

                1973-     Watergate hearings begin in Washington, D.C.

18^th         1860-     Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president

                1898-     The Supreme Court rules that “separate but equal´ is constitutional in the case of Plessy V. Ferguson

                1974-     India successfully tests its first nuclear bomb

                1980-     Mount St. Helens erupts, killing fifty-seven people

19^th         1588-     A Spanish Armada leaves Lisbon to transport an invasion force to Great Britain

                1749-     King George II gives a royal charter to the Ohio Company for over several hundred thousands of acres in the Ohio River Valley.  This is known to be a direct cause of the French and Indian War

                1935-     The war hero “Lawrence of Arabia,” or T.E. Lawrence, dies

20^th         1498-     Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India entirely by sea

                1506-     Christopher Columbus dies in Spain

                1862-     The Homestead Act is enacted

                1927-     Charles Lindbergh leaves Long Island in The Spirit of St. Louis bound for France

21^st         1542-     Hernando De Soto died of a fever on the banks of the Mississippi River

                1881-     The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons

                1927-     Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris, becoming the first single person to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean

                1932-     Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman and the second person to cross the Atlantic on a solo, non-stop flight

22^nd         1455-     The first battle of England’s War of the Roses is fought 20 miles Northwest of London

                1843-     Over 1,000 settlers leave Independence, Missouri, bound for Oregon

                1990-     North and South Yemen are united after 150 years of separation

23^rd         1701-     Captain Kidd is hung for piracy and murder in London

                1960-     The Israeli Prime Minister announces that the infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann has been captured and will be tried in Israel

24^th         1543-     The famous Polish astronomer Copernicus dies in Frombork, Poland

                1844-     Samuel Morse sends a telegraph message from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland

                1883-     The Brooklyn Bridge, with 27 men dying during construction, opens to connect Brooklyn and New York

25^th         1660-     Charles II, England’s exiled king, is allowed to return and claim the throne

                1787-     The Constitutional Convention meets for the first time in Philadelphia

                1979-     American Airlines flight 191 crashes seconds after takeoff in the worst air disaster in U.S. history

26^th         1637-     A Mohegan and Puritan force attacks a Pequot village during the Pequot War, killing over 500 Native Americans

                1864-     The U.S. Territory of Montana is created

                1868-     President Andrew Johnson barely escapes impeachment by the House of Representatives

                1896-     The last czar of old Russia, Nicholas II, is crowned

27^th         1703-     St. Petersburg is created by Peter the Great in newly acquired Russian territory

                1937-     The golden gate bridge opens to let 200,000 pedestrians cross it on opening day

                1941-     The huge German battleship Bismarck is sunk by British ships

28^th         1754-     George Washington leads the first fight of the French and Indian War when he attacks a French reconnaissance group in Southwest Pennsylvania

                1991-     The capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, is taken by the forces of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)

29^th         1848-     Wisconsin becomes the 30^th state in the Union

                1914-     The Empress of Ireland, a British liner, runs in to the Norwegian Storstad at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in Canada

                1932-     Over 20,000 WWI veterans march on Washington demanding pay in the middle of the Great Depression

                1953-     Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa companion, are the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest

30^th         1431-     Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Normandy for heresy

                1806-     The future U.S. President Andrew Jackson wins a duel with Charles Dickinson, killing him

                1868-     The first Memorial Day in the United States is held for Civil War dead

                1967-     The Republic of Biafra declares its independence from Nigeria in Africa

                1971-     Mariner 9 is successfully launched, and will later orbit and photograph Mars

31^st         1889-     The dam holding back Lake Conemaugh collapsed after a heavy rain, washing away thousands of buildings and killing over 3,000 people in the valley below

                1902-     Great Britain and African Rebels end the Boer War in South Africa

                1962-     Adolf Eichmann, several days after his capture in Argentina, is hanged in Israel for his crimes against humanity during the Holocaust