1803 - Britain declared war on France
1804 - Napolean Bonaparte proclaimed emperor of France
1860 - Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for President
1899 - World Goodwill Day - 26 Nations met for I Peace Confernce in Hague
1974 - India became the 6th Nation to explode an atomic bomb.
Birthdays
Hollywood director Frank Capra (1897-1991) was born in Palermo, Sicily. Best known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), It Happened One Night (1934) and You Can't Take It with You (1938).
Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) was born (as Karol Wojtyla) in Wadowice, Poland. In 1978, he became 264th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the first non-Italian elected in 456 years and the first Polish Pope.
1792 - Two dozen merchants and brokers established the New York Stock Exchange. In good weather they operated under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. In bad weather they moved inside to a coffeehouse to conduct business.
1954 - In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of public schools "solely on the basis of race" denies black children "equal educational opportunity" even though "physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may have been equal.
1991- Tim Berners-Lee set up HyperText Markup language (HTML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) at CERN. He put the protocol on a computer. Thus first server got launched in the word wide web.
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1509 - Battle of Agnadello - French beat Venetians.
1607 - The first permanent English settlement in America was established at Jamestown, Virginia, by a group of royally chartered Virginia Company settlers from Plymouth, England.
1610 - Assasination of Henry IV of France
1787 - Delegated assembled in Philadelphia to prepare the constitution of USA.
1842 - Illustrated London News, the first illustrated weekly newspaper began publication.
1862 - Chronograph patented.
1879 - First group of 463 Indian laborers arrived in Fiji.
1884 - Anti Monopoly party formed in USA.
1908 - first passenger flew in Airplane.
1940 - Netherlands surrendered to Germany.
1942 - During World War II, an Act of Congress allowed women to enlist for noncombat duties in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), the Women Appointed for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES), Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), and Semper Paratus Always Ready Service (SPARS), the Women's Reserve of the Marine Corp.
1944 - British troops occupied Kohima.
1963 - Kuwait joined as 111th member of United Nations
1973 - Gold @$102.50 an ounce in London
2012 - Stanford University researchers developed prototype bionic eye.
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1686 - German physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was born in Danzig, Germany. He introduced the use of mercury in thermometers and greatly improved their accuracy. His name is now attached to one of the major temperature measurement scales.
1948 - Bob Woolmer (Cricket)
1969 - Cate Blanchett (Films)
1984 - Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder)
535 St. Agapiturs began his terms as Pope
1110 Crusaders marched into Beirut
1607 A Team of English people led John Smith landed near James River in Virginia.
1643 - Battle of Grantham
1830 - Republic of Equador is founded
1846 - At the request of President James K. Polk, Congress declared war on Mexico. The war resulted in the annexation of lands that became parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah and Colorado. The war ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. 1884 - IEEE was formed.
1913 - first four engine aeroplane was flown (Igor Sikorsky, Russia)
1916 - first observance of Native American (Indian) Day
1927 - "Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
1943 - During World War II in North Africa, over 250,000 Germans and Italians surrendered in the last few days of the Tunis campaign. The victory re-opened Allied shipping lanes in the Mediterranean.
1947 - United States approves Taft-Hartley Act. Power Unions was curtailed.
1952 - Pandit Nehru became Prime Minister of India based on the First Lok Sabha Elections.
1952 - Rajya Sabha held its first Meeting in India
1979 - Shah of Iran and Family sentenced to death in Teheran
1981 - Pope John Paul was shot in Vatican City. He recovered
1998 - India carries two more nuclear tests as Pokhran (On May 11, 1998 also test was done)
Mother's Day - First observed in West Virginia in 1908 (It is now observed as the second Sunday of May)
1503 - Columbus discovered Cayman Islands
1752 - Benjamin Franklin tested the lightning with kite flying experiment.
1796 - Napoleon defeated Austria in the battle of Lodi Bridge.
1837 - Panic - Banks fail in New York
1857 - Sepoy Mutiny in India started
1940 - German Army attacks Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
1945 - Allies captured Rangoon from Japanese
1959 - Soviet forces arrived in Afghanistan
1994 - Former political prisoner Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa. Mandela had won the first free election in South Africa
