- 1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity
Sports History
1990 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Dearborn CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his second of 8 Champions Tour majors by 6 strokes from Lee Trevino
- 1991 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton wins
Television Finale
1991 David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" final episode airs on ABC-TV
Sports History
1994 American tennis ace Jennifer Capriati checks out of drug abuse clinic
- 1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
- 1994 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- 1995 "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 performances
- 1995 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
French Open Women's Tennis
1995 French Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 7-5, 4-6, 6-0 with pivotal 32-point game in 3rd set; Graf's 4th French title
- 1995 Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
Music City News Awards
1996 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson wins
- 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo, Ohio, on WBUZ 106.5 FM
- 1996 Stanley Cup Final, Miami Arena, Miami, FA: Uwe Krupp's unassisted goal in triple-OT gives Colorado Avalanche a 1-0 win over Florida Panthers and a 4 game series sweep
Film & TV History
1996 Variety talk show "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" hosted by Rosie O'Donnell premieres
- 1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China) is successful
- 1997 Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0
Agreement of Interest
1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
Belmont Stakes
2000 132nd Belmont: Pat Day aboard Commendable wins in 2:31.20
French Open Women's Tennis
2000 French Open Women's Tennis: France's Mary Pierce beats Conchita Martinez of Spain 6-2, 7-5 for her 2nd and last career Grand Slam singles title and her 1st singles title at Roland Garros
- 2000 Stanley Cup Final, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX: New Jersey Devils defeat Dallas Stars, 2-1 in double OT for a 4-2 series victory
- 2001 French Open Men's Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil wins his 3rd French title; beats Spaniard Àlex Corretja 6-7, 7-5, 6-2, 6-0
Canonization
2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa
- 2002 The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
Music Premiere
2003 Musical "Wicked", starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, officially opens at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco
Spirit Rover Begins Mars Mission
2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission
- 2006 138th Belmont: Fernando Jara aboard Jazil wins in 2:27.81
- 2006 French Open Women's Tennis: Justine Henin-Hardenne retains her title; beats Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-4, 6-4 for 5th Grand Slam singles crown
- 2007 "The Sopranos" series finale on HBO (infamous "cut to black" ending)
- 2007 61st Tony Awards: "Spring Awakening" (musical) & "The Coast of Utopia" (play) win
French Open Men's Tennis
2007 French Open Men's Tennis: Spaniard Rafael Nadal wins title for the 3rd consecutive year; beats Roger Federer 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
LPGA Championship
2007 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bulle Rock GC: Suzann Pettersen of Norway wins her first major title by 1 stroke ahead of Australian Karrie Webb
- 2007 Novelty dance song "I'm a Gummy Bear" by German band Gummibär released
- 2008 The Gora Prai airstrike by the United States reportedly kills 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops.
- 2012 66th Tony Awards: "Once" (musical) & "Clybourne Park" (play) win
- 2012 A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
French Open Women's Tennis
2012 French Open Women's Tennis: Maria Sharapova wins her first French title; beats Sara Errani of Italy 6-3, 6-2
- 2012 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: Shanshan Feng of China wins by 2 strokes ahead of Eun-Hee Ji, Stacy Lewis, Mika Miyazato and Suzann Pettersen
Sports History
2012 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Shoal Creek G&CC: Defending champion Tom Lehman wins by 2 strokes from Bernhard Langer of Germany and Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon
Film & TV History
2013 3rd Critics' Choice Television Awards: The Big Bang Theory wins Best Comedy Series, Breaking Bad & Game of Thrones win Best Drama Series (tie)
- 2013 70 people are killed as a series of bombs explode across Iraq
Film Premiere
2013 Superman film "Man of Steel" directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill and Amy Adams premieres in New York City
CMT Music Awards
2015 49th CMT Music Awards: Carrie Underwood, and Luke Bryan win
- 2017 149th Belmont Stakes: Jose Ortiz aboard Tapwrit wins in 2:30.02
- 2017 French Open Women's Tennis: Jeļena Ostapenko upsets Simona Halep 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 to claim her 1st Grand Slam title; first Latvian to win a Grand Slam singles title
- 2018 A planetary dust storm causes NASA's Opportunity Rover to cease communication from Mars
Film & TV History
2018 Actor Vince Vaughn arrested for drunk driving and resisting arrest near Los Angeles
- 2018 French Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Dominic Thiem of Austria 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 for his record 11th French title (17th Grand Slam victory)
- 2019 Former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrested on corruption charges
- 2019 New DNA research on grapes shows one French wine Savagnin Blanc has been grown for 900 years in Jura published in "Nature Plants"
- 2019 Three men sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and murder of eight-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua, India in high-profile case that sparked political resignations and nationwide protests
- 2020 Cameroon's conflict with English-speaking separatists rated world's most-neglected conflict according to Norwegian Refugee Council
Event of Interest
2020 Statues of Confederate figures and explorers become focus of #BlackLivesMatter protests, with many removed including of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and of Christopher Columbus in Richmond
Murder of Interest
2020 Swedish prosecutors close the case on the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme after 34 years, saying the probable killer is dead
- 2021 European Space Agency announces new Venus mission, the probe EnVision to study Venus' tesserae (its continent-like terrains) [1]
- 2021 UN says famine is affecting 350,000 people in Tigray, Ethiopia, the worst starvation calamity in the world right now
- 2021 Zahid Quraish confirmed as America's first Muslim federal judge for the District of New Jersey by the US Senate
Film & TV History
2022 Actress Rebel Wilson comes out on Instagram, before it emerges an Australian newspaper had given her 27 hours to comment on their upcoming story on her new female partner [1]
Music History
2022 Ringo Starr suspends his half-completed summer All-Starr Band tour when two musicians test positive for COVID
