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Events:C/P.
1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 Magnus Ladulεs is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1621 The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1667 The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
1689 The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1738 John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1798 The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1822 Battle of Pichincha: Antonio Josι de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1830 The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
1832 The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1846 Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1856 John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
1900 Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1901 Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1915 World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1930 Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1941 World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1943 Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1948 ArabIsraeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1956 Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
1956 The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland
1958 United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1960 Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordσn Caulle begins to erupt.
1961 American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1961 Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
1962 Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1967 Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
1968 FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1970 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1976 The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
1976 The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
1981 Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldσs Aguilera, his wife and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
1982 Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the IranIraq War.
1988 Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
1991 Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1991 Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1994 Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200
2002 Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 Magnus Ladulεs is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1621 The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1667 The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
1689 The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
1738 John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
1798 The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1822 Battle of Pichincha: Antonio Josι de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
1830 The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
1832 The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
1846 Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1856 John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1861 American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
1900 Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1901 Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1915 World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1930 Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1941 World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1943 Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1948 ArabIsraeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
1956 Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
1956 The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland
1958 United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1960 Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordσn Caulle begins to erupt.
1961 American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1961 Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
1962 Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1967 Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
1968 FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1970 The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1976 The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
1976 The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
1981 Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldσs Aguilera, his wife and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
1982 Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the IranIraq War.
1988 Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
1991 Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1991 Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1994 Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200
2002 Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
End of C/P.