1054 - Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies 1194 - Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies 1431 - Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies 1525 - Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army 1547 - King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII 1613 - Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch governor-general of East-Indies 1653 - Defeat of Dutch fleet under Adm Van Tromp by Admiral Blake off Portsmouth 1673 - 1st recorded wine auction held (London) 1707 - Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies 1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for 100 pounds/scalp bounty 1732 - Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna 1737 - French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort August, Scotland 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness 1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Pennsylvania) 1773 - Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia/Duke of Savoy (CE III), dies at 71 1790 - Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48 1792 - US postal service created; postage 6-cents-12-cents, depending on distance 1809 - Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state 1811 - Austria declares bankruptcy 1831 - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow 1832 - Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean 1835 - Concepcion, Chile destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die 1839 - Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia 1846 - British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore 1856 - John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die 1861 - Department of Navy of Confederacy forms 1861 - Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm 1864 - Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida 1865 - M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school 1869 - Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis 1872 - Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin 1872 - Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags 1872 - Metropolitan Museum of Art opens (NYC) 1872 - Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine 1873 - University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF) 1877 - 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky 1877 - International Association (minor baseball league) organizes 1887 - 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh) 1887 - Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance 1890 - Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire 1895 - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 1895 - Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo 1899 - Illinois Telephone & Telegraph granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system 1901 - 1st territorial legislature of Hawaii convenes 1902 - Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks and damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco 1903 - Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge 1910 - Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered 1915 - Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in San Francisco 1917 - Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die 1919 - French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt 1920 - Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 1921 - Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran 1922 - Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland 1923 - Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves 1927 - Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath 1929 - American Samoa organizes as territory of US 1929 - Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field 1930 - Capelle soccer team forms 1931 - Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge 1932 - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China 1933 - House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition 1935 - Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica 1937 - 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, California 1938 - UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany 1941 - 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland 1941 - Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation 1941 - Romania breaks relations with Netherlands 1942 - Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers 1943 - Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia 1943 - New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico) 1943 - Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League 1944 - Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers 1944 - US takes Eniwetok Island 1947 - Chemical mixing error at O'Connor Electo-plating Company causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles; 17 dead, 150 injured 1947 - Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India 1948 - Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns 1949 - 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal, Kansas) 1950 - Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour 1952 - 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford) 1953 - August A Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million 1953 - US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling 1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open 1954 - General Zahedi wins election in Persia 1955 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open 1958 - Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner 1958 - LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility 1962 - John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7) 1963 - Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract 1965 - Beatles record "That Means a Lot" 1965 - Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data 1966 - Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR 1968 - John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth 1968 - State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M 1971 - Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season 1971 - Major General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda 1971 - National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes 1972 - 1st time Cleve Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109) 1972 - Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater 1972 - Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee 1973 - 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins 1974 - Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono 1974 - Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros 1975 - Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conserv Party 1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1976 - Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title 1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1978 - 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope 1978 - Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ 1978 - Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus 1978 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic 1980 - Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski 1981 - Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds 1981 - James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec) 1982 - NY Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game 1983 - Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km) 1983 - Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling 1985 - After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket 1986 - LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration 1986 - Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY 1987 - Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City 1987 - David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years 1988 - 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1988 - Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating 1988 - Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec) 1988 - Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0 1988 - Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million 1988 - Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2) 1988 - Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m) 1989 - Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players 1991 - 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey 1992 - Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands 1992 - Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show 1993 - Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp 1993 - Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open 1993 - NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31 1994 - 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage 1994 - Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55) 1994 - Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals 1997 - SF Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract 1998 - Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal 1998 - UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations 1998 - US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
