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1091 Battle at Monte Levunium: Emperor Alexius I beats Petshegenes

1429 Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English

1522 Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands

1540 Emperor Charles declares all privileges of Gent ended

1550 Emperor Charles V gives inquisiters additional authority

1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England

1623 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru

1628 Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein

1636 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Schenkenschans

1644 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking

1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan

1670 Pope Clemens X elected

1701 Drenthe Neth adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is May 12, 1701

1706 Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria

1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain

1715 John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time

1781 French fleet occupies Tobago

1781 French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope

1784 Premiere of Mozart's Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna)

1793 Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new townhall

1813 Rubber is patented

1834 Charles Darwin's expedition sees top of Andes from Patagonia

1845 Macon B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st blacks to open law practice

1852 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

1853 Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth

1856 Peace between England & Russia

1857 US Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio (SF)

1861 Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union

1862 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss

1862 New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War

1863 Battle of Chancellordville, VA (Fredericksburg, Wilderness Tavern)

1864 -30] Skirmish at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas

1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens

1888 Old Kavallison, Congo: Stanley meet Emin Pasha

1892 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter

1894 Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol

1901 27th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Winkfield on His Eminence wins in 2:07.75

1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest

1903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)

1905 2" rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX

1905 Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon

1910 Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam

1912 108ш F (42ш C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record)

1912 Frank Wedekind's "Tod und Teufel," premieres in Berlin

1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper

1916 Irish nationalists set post office on fire in Dublin

1918 Tris Speaker ties career outfield record of 4 unassisted double plays

1922 1st official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia)

1925 Netherlands returns to gold standard

1926 France & US reach accord on repayment of WW I

1927 Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed

1930 123 runs are scored in 7 major league games

1930 North Sea floodgate at Ijmuiden (biggest in world) officially opens

1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service

1931 Cleve Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St Louis Browns, 9-0

1934 Pitts is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday

1936 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5

1939 Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx & Queens opens

1940 1st radio broadcast of "Young Dr Malone" on CBS

1940 Norwegian King Haakon & govt flees to England

1940 Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night," premieres in NYC

1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road

1942 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France

1943 Dietrich Bonh”ffer arrested by nazis

1943 No‰l Coward's "Present Laughter," premieres in London

1943 US 34th Division occupies Hill 609, North Tunisia

1944 Surprise attack by Van de Peat on General Landsdrukkerij in the Hague

1945 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)

1945 Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun

1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon

1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed

1945 US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany

1945 Venice & Mestre were captured by the Allies

1946 28 former Jap leaders indicted in Tokyo as war criminals

1948 Bradman scores 107 Aust v Worcs, 152 mins, 15 fours

1953 Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into Polo Grounds' center field bleachers

1955 G Gronchi elected president of Italy

1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open

1956 WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

1956 WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting

1956 WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va

1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports, debuts

1962 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed win

1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1963 KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT

1964 Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma

1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1965 Australian govt announces it would send troops to Vietnam

1965 Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die

1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe

1967 Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"

1968 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances

1969 "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 perfs

1970 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia

1971 Bill Graham closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East

1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration

1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 Gloria Ehret wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic

1974 President Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House

1975 Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth

1975 Flyers 4-Isles 0-Semifinals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead

1976 Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water

1977 British Aerospace forms

1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic

1981 Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)

1981 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters

1982 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell

1982 Alfredo Magana elected pres of El Salvador

1982 Nordiques 2-Isles 5-Semifinals-Isles hold 2-0 lead

1983 Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor

1984 "Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances

1984 Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic

1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched

1985 Ranger Larry Parrish is 5th to hit 3 HRs in a game in both leagues

1985 Tony Tubbs TKOs Greg Page in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1986 800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library

1986 Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners

1987 Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle

1987 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US

1988 "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols

1988 Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry

1988 Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses

1989 2nd govt of Lubbers falls

1990 "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 16 performances

1990 Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement

1990 STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands

1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate

1991 "Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 48 perfs

1991 Croatia declares independence

1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless

1991 Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100

1992 "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 487 performances

1992 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks

1992 Country singer Doug Stone, 35, undergoes quadruple bypass surgery

1992 Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin

1992 Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"

1992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps

1994 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300

1994 Israel & PLO sign economic accord

1995 Final TV broadcast of "Empty Nest" on NBC TV

1995 KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat

1995 Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario

1996 "Rent," opens at Nederlander Theater NYC

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno CA on KFRR 104.1 FM

1997 "Candide," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 103 performances

1997 KC Royal Chili Davis is 75th to hit 300 HRs

1998 15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned

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