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1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open

1971 75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45

1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time

1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 perfs

1989 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors

1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational

1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails

1775 Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon

1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut

1901 James J Caffrey wins Boston marathon (2:29:23.6)

1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf

1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit

1963 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belg in 2:18:58

1979 Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage & Cliff

1932 Pres Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week

1956 US actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (in Church)

1987 LA Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record

1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4

1997 Renee Slaughter, crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl

1987 Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ)

1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship

1863 Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia

1713 Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic Sanctions

1998 wins City of Hope Golf Classic

1929 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6

1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4« years

1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier

1966 Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon

1947 AAU record for a 25' rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds

1974 Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees

1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature mag)

1897 1st Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of NY in 2:55:10

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1951 Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career

1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20

1993 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33

1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London

1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege

1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 perf

1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of NY in 2:28:37.2

1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland

1949 Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth

1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1979 Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb

1997 SD Padres & St Louis Cards play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii

1954 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39

1949 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gosta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8

1996 Rangers scores 16 in 8th vs Orioles

1913 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minn in 2:25:14.8

1928 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:37:07.8

1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Mass in 2:42:00

1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522

1892 Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)

1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of NY in 2:38:04.4

1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels

1782 Netherlands recognizes US

1853 Netherlands Van Hall govt forms

1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)

1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam

1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth

1897 1st performance of Debussy's "Pell‚as et M‚lisande"

1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)

1962 66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48

1924 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2

1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4

1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2

1981 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos," premieres in NYC

1963 "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances

1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54

1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery

1941 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:30:38

1970 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win

1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel

1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire

1877 Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)

1965 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London

1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname

1906 10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Mass in 2:45:45

1897 1st American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)

1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53

1900 4th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:39:44.4

1968 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Conn in 2:22:17

1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY

1961 65th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:39

1919 Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)

1982 86th Boston Marathon won by Alberto Salazar of Oreg in 2:08:51

1947 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2

1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria

1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs

1996 South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah

1943 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cot‚ of Canada in 2:28:25.8

1947 Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (2:25:39)

0607 Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth

1992 Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"

1948 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cot‚ of Canada in 2:31:02

1990 Pistons & 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)

1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth

1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of NJ in 2:18:57.6

1983 France performs nuclear test

1938 Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat

1943 -May 16] Revolt in Warsaw Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz

1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die

1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day

1905 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of NY in 2:38:25.4

1973 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1909 Joan of Arc, declared a saint

1916 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Mass in 2:27:16.4

1935 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4

1953 WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)

1954 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th

1937 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1955 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22

1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra

1967 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45

1927 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2

1906 SF Earthquake ends killing 452

1941 B Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," premieres in ZЃrich

1861 Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed

1948 ABC-TV network begins

1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone

1966 In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic

1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt

1981 Rochester Red Wings & Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)

1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid

1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)

1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine

1982 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Ger in 2:29:33

1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw Ghetto

1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly

1989 Kevin Elster (NY Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73

1972 Hungary revises constitution

1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:35:34.8

1973 Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president

1995 Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (NYC) news

1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis," premieres in Paris

1968 NL owners approve expansion for 2 new teams

1940 44th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cot‚ of Canada in 2:28:28.6

1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit

1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of NY in 2:21:18.2

1770 Capt James Cook 1st sees Australia

1901 5th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6

1993 Branch Davidians in Waco Texas commit suicide after 51 day siege

1928 Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926

1981 Oakland A's runs record to 11-0

1900 Highest scoring opening game, Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10

1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published

1930 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2

1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m

1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"

1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve

1852 Calif Historical Society forms

1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)

1587 Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain & sinks Spanish fleet

1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open

1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut

1994 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation

1916 "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London

1967 "Casino Royale" premieres

1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational

1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama

1933 FDR announces US will leave gold standard

1998 59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship:

1964 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma," premieres in West-Berlin

1975 India launches 1st satellite with help of USSR

1916 Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano

1995 Truck bomb at Federal Building in Okla City, kills 168 & injures 500

1991 Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavywgt boxing title

1924 "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago

1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender

1946 Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out

1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire

1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war

1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2

1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6

1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election

1970 "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs

1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France

1836 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor," premieres in St Petersburg

1922 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10

1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne

1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8

1956 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14

1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay

1976 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wis in 2:47:10

1951 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45

1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54

0403 [Etalius] ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2

1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel

1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40

1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1973 Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow"

1947 51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39

1956 1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium

1933 37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:31:01.6

1967 US Surveyor III lands on Moon

1926 30th Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:25:40.4

1972 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 perfs

1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24

1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail

1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers

1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"

1943 SS-lt-gen JЃrgen Stoop leads destruction of ghetto of Warsaw

1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating

1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1941 Milk rationed in Holland

1965 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33

1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism

1950 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39

1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31

1932 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4

1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)

1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver

1993 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27

1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play," premieres in London

1945 US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa

1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in NYC

1968 Belgian construction workers strike

1923 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4

1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway

1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming govt agree to truce

1934 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8

1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor of NY in 2:43:12

1987 Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight AL win

1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth

1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating

1899 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Mass in 2:54:38

1976 80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Wash, DC in 2:20:19

1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Bkln NY)

1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990

1939 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:28:51.8

1919 Leslie Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump & free fall

1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia

1960 Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating

1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1966 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11

1839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom & Luxembourg a Grand Duchy

1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (Natl Day)

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