- 254 Stephan I succeeds Lucius I as Catholic Pope
- 919 Duke Henry of Saxony becomes King Henry I of Oostfrankischreich
- 1082 Battle at Mailberg: Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr
Magna Carta
1215 English barons serve ultimatum on King John which eventually leads to the creation and signing of the Magna Carta
Learn More- 1328 Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and assembly of priests select Pietro Rainalducc as anti-Pope Nicolaas V
- 1328 Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice
- 1459 Jodhpur, Sun City, founded by Rao Jodhpur in India
- 1525 Battle at Biblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttemberg farmers
- 1534 German Duchy of Wurttemberg becomes Lutheran under Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg
- 1551 San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens
- 1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris
- 1604 Spanish garrison of Aardenburg surrenders to Mauritius
- 1640 Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
- 1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg
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1695 English King William III departs to Netherlands

William III
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
1701 Drenthe adopts Gregorian calendar (yesterday is 4/29/1701)
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Victory in Battle
1780 American General Benjamin Lincoln surrenders Charleston to the British (Revolutionary War)

Benjamin Lincoln
Britain Abolishes the Slave Trade
1789 William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice
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- 1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented

Napoléon Bonaparte
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1835 Charles Darwin visits the Panuncillo Copper Mine in North Chile

Charles Darwin
- 1862 Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- 1863 Battle of Raymond, Mississippi
- 1864 Battle of Drewry's Bluff, fought in Chesterfield County, Virginia (Peninsula Campaign), Confederate victory (US Civil War)
- 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania, fought near Courthouse, Virginia (Overland Campaign), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
- 1864 Battle of Todd's Tavern, cavalry battle fought near Todds Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid), inconclusive result (US Civil War)
- 1864 US Union colonel Emory Upton (24) promoted to brigadier general
- 1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
- 1870 Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
- 1871 Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Kentucky
- 1873 Oscar II of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Sweden
- 1874 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana, authorized
- 1875 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
- 1877 Ottawa Rough Riders 1st outside competition vs Britannia
- 1881 Treaty of Bardo, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate
Victory in Battle
1885 Battle of Batoche: Louis Riel and the Metis defeated by Frederick Middleton, leads to collapse of Provincial Government of Saskatchewan and surrender of Riel

Louis Riel
- 1888 Crouching start 1st used in track and field by Charles Sherrill of Yale
- 1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting
- 1890 First official County Cricket Championship match begins; Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire by 8 wickets at Bristol; James Cranston scores first century (101) in the competition
- 1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo, Suriname
- 1894 Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC
- 1897 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente, Netherlands
- 1897 Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece
- 1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
- 1900 Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed
- 1900 Lord Roberts' troops occupy Crown city
- 1901 US President McKinley visits San Francisco
- 1902 140,000 miners of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania go out on a strike called by the United Mine Workers after the owners have refused to recognize the UMW, negotiate or submit to arbitration
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1908 George Bernard Shaw's "Getting Married" premieres in London

George Bernard Shaw

Lillian Wald
- 1910 Philadelphia Athletic's "Chief Bender" no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
- 1911 American economic expert W Morgan Schuster arrives by invitation to assume almost dictatorial power over Persia's finances; a move resented by Russia
- 1911 1st Inter-Empire Championships open in London
- 1912 Amsterdam-North football club D.W.V. is established
- 1913 English runner Harry Green runs world record marathon 2:38:16.2 in the Polytechnic Marathon in London, England
- 1915 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
- 1915 Franklin K Mathiews presents idea of "Book Week"
- 1916 James Connolly and Sean McDermott are executed following their involvement in the Easter Rising in Dublin
- 1917 42nd Preakness: E Haynes aboard Kalitan wins in 1:54.4
- 1917 43rd Kentucky Derby: Charles Borel on Omar Khayyam wins in 2:04.6
- 1919 Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
- 1919 The Transvaal British Indian Association calls a mass meeting to organise opposition to the proposed Asiatics (Land and Trading) Amendment Act; in the Act, Transvaal Indians are prohibited from owning shares in limited companies
- 1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed in the United States
- 1923 48th Preakness: Benny Marinelli aboard Vigil wins in 1:53.6
- 1924 49th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2
- 1925 Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
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1926 Airship Norge is the first vessel to fly over North Pole, lead by Roald Amundsen and piloted by Umberto Nobile

Roald Amundsen
Music Premiere
1926 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad

Dmitri Shostakovich
Coup d'état
1926 General Józef Piłsudski returns to power in Poland after coup d'état against the Witos regime

Józef Piłsudski
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1928 Benito Mussolini ends women's rights in Italy

Benito Mussolini
Event of Interest
1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)

Marc Connelly
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1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey

Charles Lindbergh
- 1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
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1934 "Cocktails For Two" by Duke Ellington hits #1

Duke Ellington
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1938 Arthur Honegger and Paul Claudel's oratorio "Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher" premieres in Basel

Arthur Honegger
Event of Interest
1941 Martin Bormann succeeds Rudolf Hess as Adolf Hitler's deputy
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1942 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine

David Ben-Gurion
Event of Interest
1943 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in USA

Winston Churchill
Event of Interest
1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Event of Interest
1949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in USA (Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India)

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Music Premiere
1950 Darius Milhaud's opera "Bolivar" premieres in Paris

Darius Milhaud
- 1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
- 1952 Charlton Playground named in Bronx
- 1952 Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
- 1953 KUHT TV channel 8 (PBS) in Houston, TX, begins broadcasting
- 1955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
- 1956 Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
- 1956 East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves
- 1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #40
- 1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
- 1958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
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1959 "Nervous Set" opens at Henry Miller's Theater NYC for 23 performances

Henry Miller
Event of Interest
1960 Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special

Elvis Presley
Event of Interest
1963 Bob Dylan walks out of the "Ed Sullivan Show"

Bob Dylan

Ed Sullivan
- 1963 Race riot in Birmingham, Alabama
- 1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO
- 1965 Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
- 1966 St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
- 1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student
- 1967 Provo disbands in Neth Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Music Concert
1967 1st quadraphonic concert by Pink Floyd at the Games for May concert in London

Roger Waters

David Gilmour
- 1967 20th Cannes Film Festival: "Blowup" directed by Michelangelo Antonioni wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Album Release
1967 "Are You Experienced" album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience first released - one of the most influential debut albums ever

Jimi Hendrix
Baseball Record
1970 Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run

Ernie Banks
- 1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
- 1970 KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1970 Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
- 1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
Event of Interest
1972 Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

Paul McCartney
- 1973 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels, 4 games to 3
- 1973 Dueling Tubas by Martin Mull hits #92
- 1974 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee, 4 games to 3
- 1975 US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
- 1976 20th European Cup: Bayern Munich beats Saint-Etienne 1-0 at Glasgow
- 1977 Emmy 4th Daytime Award presentation
- 1978 US Commerce Department says hurricane names will no longer be only female
Event of Interest
1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end

Chris Evert
- 1980 1st non-stop trans-North American balloon flight lands at Sainte-Félicité, Quebec. Maxie Anderson and son Kristian piloted the Kitty Hawk for five days.
- 1980 West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium; midfield playmaker Trevor Brooking scores winner with a rare header
- 1981 "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 performances
- 1981 NY Islanders tie own record with two shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Minn
- 1982 FC Barcelona of Spain win 22nd European Cup Winner's Cup against Standard Liège of Belgium 2-1 in Barcelona
- 1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
- 1982 US Football League forms
Event of Interest
1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish Traditionalist priest who opposed Vatican II reforms and saw Pope John Paul II as a perpetrator of them, is stopped prior to his attempt to attack the Pope with a bayonet

John Paul II
Event of Interest
1984 South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years

Nelson Mandela
Event of Interest
1986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator

Ronald Reagan
- 1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, California
- 1988 "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances
- 1989 "Entertainment Tonight" makes 2,000th TV performance
- 1989 Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
- 1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
- 1990 Comic Relief USA '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
Event of Interest
1990 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott "Saturday Night Live" to protest Andrew Dice Clay's hosting which was perceived as sexist; the show uses a time delay for the third time in its history
- 1990 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
- 1991 A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest
- 1992 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
- 1993 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands
- 1993 Parma of Italy win 33rd European Cup Winner's Cup against Royal Antwerp of Belgium 3-1 in London
- 1994 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan
Film Premier
1994 "Pulp Fiction", directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson premieres at the Cannes Film Festival (Palme d'Or 1994)
NHL Record
1995 Martin Brodeur ties NHL record getting his 3rd playoff shutout in 4

Martin Brodeur
LPGA Championship
1996 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, DuPont CC: England's Laura Davies wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Julie Piers

Laura Davies
- 1996 Yankees losing 8-0 to Chicago White Sox, come back to win 9-8
- 1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
- 1997 Angels scores 13 in 7th vs White Sox
- 1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
- 1997 Australian Susie Maroney becomes first to swim from Cuba to Florida
- 1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
Music Single
1997 "It's Your Love" single released by Time McGraw and Faith Hill

Faith Hill