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Aerial view of Old Portsmouth
Title page of the first edition of the King James Bible
John Knox
2008 Chaitén eruption
ARA General Belgrano
Memorial service in honour of those who died in the Odesa clashes, outside the burnt Trade Unions House on 10 May 2014
Mireya Moscoso
Brandenburg Gate damaged after the Battle of Berlin
Mireya Moscoso in 2012
Cyclone Manou
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Teachers' Day in Iran; | refimprove |
| 1611 – Robert Barker, the King's Printer, made the first printing of the King James Version of the Bible. | several unsourced sections |
| 1757 – Konbaung forces captured the city of Bago, Burma, to end the Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War. | refimprove |
| 1808 – The people of Madrid rebelled against French occupation of the city, triggering the Peninsular War. | needs more footnotes |
| 1829 – Captain Charles Fremantle of the Royal Navy established the Swan River Colony, the first British settlement on the west coast of Australia. | unreferenced section |
| 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later. | Large chunks uncited |
| 1866 – Chincha Islands War: Both Spanish and Peruvian forces claimed victory in the Battle of Callao. | many CN tags in one section |
| 1885 – A small force of Cree and Assiniboine defeated a larger Canadian force in the Battle of Cut Knife, the First Nations' most successful battle during the North-West Rebellion. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – The Alcatraz Island United States Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay was taken over by six inmates following their failed escape attempt. | needs more footnotes |
| 1952 – The world's first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet 1, made its first commercial flight, from London to Johannesburg. | featured on July 27 |
| 1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – Spurred on by the Indian Union Muslim League, a mob of Indian Muslims killed eight Hindu fishermen in Kerala. | multiple issues |
| Liu Zong |d|821| | source for date is dead |
Eligible
- 1559 – Presbyterian clergyman John Knox returned from exile to lead the Scottish Reformation.
- 1670 – A royal charter granted the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly in the fur trade in Rupert's Land (present-day Canada).
- 1889 – The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian War, but differences in translation later led to another war.
- 1945 – World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin.
- 1982 – Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle.
- 1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion attributed to Viet Cong commandos caused the escort carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
- 1995 – Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring around 200 others.
- 2008 – The Chaitén volcano in Chile began to erupt for the first time since around 1640.
- 1999 – Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
- 2011 – The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government.
- 2014 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrainian unity protesters in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa.
- 2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people.
- Born/died: | Marutha of Tikrit |d|649| Blanche of Artois |d|1302| Stjepan Gradić |d|1683| Luis Daoíz y Torres |d|1808| Mary Moser |d|1819| Giacomo Meyerbeer |d|1864| Zina Hitchcock |d|1832| Theodor Herzl |b|1860| Jesse William Lazear |b|1866| Ichiyō Higuchi |b|1872| Isabel González |b|1882| Homer Davenport |d|1912| B. B. Lal |b|1921| Engelbert Humperdinck |b|1936| Ernest Joyce<!-English explorer-->|d|1940| Dorothea Binz |d|1947| Jimmy White |b|1962| Dwayne Johnson |b|1972| Kumail Nanjiani |b|1978| Wee Kim Wee |d|2005|
Notes
- Ayrton Senna/Death of Ayrton Senna appear on May 1, so Henri Toivonen should not appear in the same year
Great Mill Disaster illustration
- 1194 – King Richard I of England gave the city of Portsmouth its first royal charter.
- 1878 – A dust explosion (depicted) at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths.
- 1986 – Henri Toivonen was killed in an accident while leading the Tour de Corse rally, resulting in FISA banning the popular Group B rally cars for the following season.
- 2003 – Cyclone Manou formed in the Indian Ocean; over the next two weeks it struck Madagascar and left more than 100,000 people homeless.
- 2011 – Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six in his private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
- Yongle Emperor (b. 1360)
- Catherine Labouré (b. 1806)
- George Went Hensley (b. 1881)
- Princess Charlotte of Wales (b. 2015)