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585 BC A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
621 Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gao Zu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan).
1503 James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
1533 The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
1644 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
1754 French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1830 President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1871 The Paris Commune falls.
1892 In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1907 The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
1918 The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 28th May 1926 coup d'ιtat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1932 In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1936 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1936 Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 Volkswagen (VW), German automobile manufacturer was founded
1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
1942 World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1951 The British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1952 The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1958 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26 July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1961 Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1974 Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1987 The 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
1991 The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1993 Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
1995 The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
1996 The U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, ******** da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2010 In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
2012 The discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced.
Events :C/P.
585 BC A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
621 Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gao Zu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan).
1503 James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
1533 The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
1588 The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).
1644 Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby.
1754 French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
1830 President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
1871 The Paris Commune falls.
1892 In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Togo Heihachiro and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1907 The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
1918 The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
1926 28th May 1926 coup d'ιtat: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
1932 In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
1934 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1936 Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1936 Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
1937 The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 Volkswagen (VW), German automobile manufacturer was founded
1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
1942 World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1951 The British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1952 The women of Greece are given the right to vote.
1958 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26 July movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
1961 Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1974 Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
1975 Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
1977 In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1979 Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1987 The 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
1991 The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
1993 Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
1995 The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
1996 The U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, ******** da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
2002 NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
2008 The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
2010 In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
2012 The discovery of Flame, a complex malware program targeting computers in Middle Eastern countries, is announced.