Notable Historical Events on May 1st
May 1st Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
305 |
Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. |
1006 |
Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus |
1048 |
Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth |
1328 |
Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state. |
1394 |
Ekiho exorcised the Zen temple & its surroundings of an old badger |
1523 |
Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere |
1544 |
Turkish troops occupy Hungary |
1551 |
Council of Trente resumes |
1598 |
Jacob van Neck's merchant fleet departs for Java |
1625 |
Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador (Bahia) |
1625 |
Prince Frederik Henry appointed viceroy of Holland |
1682 |
Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory |
1703 |
Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians |
1704 |
Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper advertisement |
1707 |
England, Wales & Scotland form United Kingdom of Great Britain |
1711 |
Archduke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar |
1715 |
Prussia declares war on Sweden |
1725 |
Spain & Austria sign trade treaty |
1751 |
1st American cricket match is played |
1753 |
Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. |
1756 |
France & Austria sign alliance |
1757 |
Austria & France divide Prussia |
1759 |
British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West Indies, capturing it from France |
1776 |
Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati |
1777 |
RB Sheridan's "School for Scandal" premieres in London |
1778 |
American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania. |
1781 |
Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population |
1785 |
Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi |
1786 |
Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna) |
1822 |
John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston |
1834 |
Belgian parliament accepts railway laws |
1840 |
"Penny Blacks", first adhesive postage stamps issued, UK |
1841 |
1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California |
1844 |
Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate |
1846 |
Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world |
1848 |
The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. |
1850 |
John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor |
1851 |
Great Exhibition opens in the Crystal Palace, London |
1852 |
The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation. |
1853 |
Argentina adopts its constitution |
1854 |
Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes |
1857 |
William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy |
1861 |
Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry |
1862 |
Major General Benjamin Butler's Union forces occupy New Orleans in US Civil War |
1863 |
Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died) |
1863 |
Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi |
1863 |
Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars" |
1863 |
Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers |
1864 |
-8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign) |
1864 |
Atlanta campaign, GA begins |
1864 |
Wilderness campaign |
1866 |
American Equal Rights Association forms |
1867 |
Howard University chartered |
1867 |
Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration |
1869 |
Folies Bergère opens in Paris |
1873 |
1st US postal card issued |
1873 |
Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Exposition in Vienna |
1875 |
238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities |
1875 |
Alexandra Palace, London, reopens after being burnt down in 1873 |
1883 |
"Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show |
1883 |
Amsterdam World's Fair opens |
1883 |
Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876 |
1883 |
NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer |
1884 |
Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories) |
1884 |
Moses Walker became 1st African American player in major league baseball in US |
1884 |
Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. |
1885 |
Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands |
1886 |
US general strike for 8-hour working day begins |
1889 |
2nd International Congress calls for 1st International Workers Day 1st May 1890 to mark protests in Chicago in 1886 |
1889 |
Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) |
1891 |
Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3 |
1892 |
US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay |
1893 |
World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago |
1896 |
Seven days after parliament was dissolved, Charles Tupper is sworn in as the 6th Prime Minister of Canada |
1898 |
George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila |
1900 |
Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah |
1900 |
Roermond soccer team forms in Netherlands |
1901 |
Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox |
1901 |
Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League |
1901 |
Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo |
1903 |
King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Paris, where he is feted in a first step toward improving Anglo-French relations, culminating in the sighing of the Entente Cordiale on 8 April, 1904 |
1906 |
Phillies' John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0 |
1907 |
Belgium government of De Trooz forms |
1907 |
Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies) |
1908 |
World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama |
1909 |
Netherlands begins unity with Belgium |
1912 |
Amsterdam-North soccer team DWV forms |
1912 |
Beverly Hills Hotel opens |
1913 |
Longacre Theater opens at 220 W 48th St NYC |
1914 |
China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification |
1915 |
British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool |
1915 |
German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight |
1919 |
Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages |
1920 |
Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds |
1920 |
Belgium-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens |
1920 |
Longest major league baseball game by inninngs - Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings |
1921 |
Drusian sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda |
1922 |
Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect no-hit, no-run game |
1924 |
Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece |
1925 |
A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single |
1925 |
Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony |
1926 |
British coal miners go on strike |
1926 |
Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League |
1927 |
1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) |
1927 |
Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam |
1927 |
Panningen soccer team forms in Panningen |
1928 |
6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania |
1928 |
Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter |
1928 |
Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration) |
1928 |
Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service |
1928 |
Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms |
1929 |
Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds |
1929 |
Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen |
1929 |
Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin |
1930 |
Bradman scores 236 Aust v Worcs, his 1st f-class innings in Eng |
1931 |
Empire State Building opens in NYC |
1931 |
Norway claims Peter I Island |
1931 |
Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS |
1932 |
1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo |
1934 |
Austria signs pact with Vatican |
1934 |
Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence |
1934 |
Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert |
1935 |
Boulder Dam completed |
1935 |
Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated |
1936 |
Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades |
1936 |
FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis |
1937 |
FDR signs act of neutrality |
1939 |
Batman comics hit street |
1939 |
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) |
1940 |
140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship |
1940 |
The 1940 Olympics are cancelled |
1941 |
"Citizen Kane", directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY |
1941 |
General Mills introduces Cheerios |
1941 |
German assault on Tobruk |
1942 |
Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star" |
1943 |
1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam |
1943 |
69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04 |
1943 |
Food rationing begins in US |
1943 |
German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes |
1943 |
German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta |
1943 |
Rauter signs unofficial death sentence |
1944 |
Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight |
1944 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to American Martin Flavin for his novel "Journey in the Dark" |
1944 |
Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails |
1945 |
About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army |
1945 |
Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government |
1945 |
Australian & Dutch troops lands on Tarakan |
1945 |
General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms |
1945 |
Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II |
1945 |
Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg |
1945 |
Soviet army reaches Rostock |
1946 |
Field Marshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander |
1946 |
Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year" |
1946 |
Start of 3 year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians. |
1946 |
The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy. |
1947 |
Cleve Indians abandon League Park to play all games at Municipal Stad |
1947 |
Lt General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, ends term as 2nd head of CIA |
1947 |
Radar for commercial & private planes 1st demonstrated |
1947 |
Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA |
1948 |
74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4 |
1948 |
North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea |
1948 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam |
1948 |
Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes" |
1949 |
A's Elmer Valo is 1st AL'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game |
1949 |
Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune) |
1950 |
Gwendolyn Brooks is 1st African American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry |
1950 |
Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade |
1950 |
New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic of China |
1950 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific) |
1950 |
WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1951 |
600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany |
1951 |
Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir |
1951 |
Mickey Mantle's 1st HR |
1951 |
Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox |
1952 |
US Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada |
1952 |
Mr Potato Head introduced |
1952 |
TWA introduces tourist class |
1954 |
80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03 |
1954 |
Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden) |
1954 |
HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies) |
1954 |
WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament |
1955 |
Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters) |
1956 |
A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease. |
1957 |
Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord |
1957 |
Larry King's 1st radio broadcast |
1957 |
US gives Poland credit of $95 million |
1957 |
Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km |
1958 |
Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai |
1958 |
Arturo Frondizi sworn in as president of Argentina |
1959 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1959 |
West Germany introduces 5 day work week |
1959 |
White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR |
1960 |
India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states |
1960 |
Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis |
1960 |
Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk |
1961 |
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba |
1961 |
Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba |
1961 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) |
1961 |
Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain |
1962 |
1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara |
1962 |
Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start |
1962 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
1962 |
JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) |
1963 |
1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest |
1963 |
Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth |
1964 |
1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) |
1965 |
91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2 |
1965 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
1965 |
USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon |
1965 |
Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between ROC and PRC, takes place. |
1966 |
Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) |
1966 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
1966 |
Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting |
1966 |
US troops shooting targets in Cambodia |
1967 |
Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua |
1967 |
Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank |
1967 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) |
1968 |
"Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 perfs |
1968 |
Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup |
1969 |
43 Unification church couples wed in NYC |
1969 |
Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0 |
1969 |
Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000 |
1969 |
Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting |
1969 |
James Chichester-Clark is elected as leader of the Unionist party, succeededing Terence O'Neill as the Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
1971 |
97th Kentucky Derby: Gustavo Avila on Canonero II wins in 2:03.2 |
1971 |
Amtrak Railroad begins operation |
1971 |
Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" |
1972 |
"Different Times" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 24 performances |
1972 |
North Vietnamese troops occupy Quang Tri Activities Committee |
1972 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) |
1972 |
Radio's Mutual Black Network premieres |
1973 |
SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7 |
1975 |
Islander Parise & Potvin score within 14 seconds in playoffs Flyers 5-Isles 4-semifinals-Flyers hold 2-0 lead |
1976 |
102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6 |
1976 |
Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2) |
1976 |
Empress Lilly, replica of a paddle steamer, dedicated at Disney World Florida |
1977 |
Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:35:15.4) |
1977 |
Debbie Austin wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic |
1977 |
36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations. |
1978 |
1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated |
1978 |
MVV soccer team forms in Maastricht |
1978 |
Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone |
1979 |
Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel |
1979 |
Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) |
1979 |
Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing |
1980 |
"Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden NYC for 588 perf |
1980 |
15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins |
1980 |
Sabres & Islanders play to 1:20 of 5th period in a playoff |
1980 |
Amer Book Award: William Styron (Sophie Choice)/T Wolfe (Right Stuff) |
1981 |
Tennis player Billie Jean King acknowledges a lesbian relationship with Marilyn Barnett - becoming first prominent sportswoman to come out |
1981 |
Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges |
1981 |
Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 |
1982 |
108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4 |
1982 |
1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens |
1982 |
Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
1983 |
"My One & Only" opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances |
1983 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament |
1984 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1984 |
Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy |
1985 |
"Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels |
1985 |
US President Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua |
1985 |
William Hoffman's "As Is" premieres in NYC |
1986 |
Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph |
1986 |
Russian news agency Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap |
1986 |
Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole |
1987 |
46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games |
1987 |
Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun |
1988 |
"Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 perfs |
1988 |
Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, kills 3 British servicemen and wounds 3 more |
1988 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
1989 |
135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public |
1989 |
Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days |
1989 |
US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting |
1990 |
"Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC |
1991 |
"Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances |
1991 |
A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks |
1991 |
Angolan civil war ends |
1991 |
Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge |
1991 |
Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings |
1991 |
Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal |
1991 |
Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0) |
1991 |
Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC |
1992 |
Eric Houston kills 4 in a California HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior |
1992 |
LA Dodgers postpone 3 games due to racial riots over Rodney King beating |
1992 |
NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils) |
1992 |
Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base |
1993 |
119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4 |
1993 |
Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) |
1994 |
"My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances |
1994 |
"Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 perfs |
1994 |
-3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed |
1994 |
Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road) |
1994 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament |
1994 |
Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship |
1995 |
"On the Waterfront" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1995 |
Steve Waugh scores 200 for Australia v WI at Sabina Park |
1995 |
Croatian forces launch Operation Flash during the Croatian War of Independence. |
1996 |
"Ideal Husband" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 308 performances |
1996 |
Gerald Williams is 1st NY Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game |
1997 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in San Diego CA on KIOZ 105.3 FM |
1997 |
Tony Blair elected Prime Minister of UK |
1997 |
Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality. |
1999 |
125th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Charismatic wins in 2:03.29 |
2000 |
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion. |
2003 |
2003 invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California. |
2004 |
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin. |
2004 |
130th Kentucky Derby: Stewart Elliot aboard Smarty Jones wins in 2:04.06 |
2006 |
The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow. |
2007 |
The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy. |
2008 |
The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention. |
2009 |
Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden. |
2010 |
Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City |
2010 |
136th Kentucky Derby: Calvin Borel aboard Super Saver wins in 2:04.45 |
2010 |
Canadian singer Bryan Adams is given the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for his 30 years of contributions to the arts |
2011 |
Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. |
2012 |
China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal |
2012 |
Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion |
2013 |
Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand |
2013 |
15 people are killed by multiple bomb attacks across Iraq |
2013 |
16 people are killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia |
2013 |
A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eyes |
2016 |
Building Collapses in Kenyan Capital, Killing at Least 10 |
2016 |
Kenya Burns Elephant Ivory Worth $105 Million to Defy Poachers |
2017 |
US soldier killed in Iraq during a patrol outside Mosul |
2017 |
US coalition strikes against ISIS killed at least 352 civilians since 2014, Pentagon says |
2017 |
Trump calls North Korean leader a 'pretty smart cookie' |
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