304 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome.
907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.
922 – After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.
1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day.
1328 – Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice.
1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
1510 – The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.
1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1588 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is sentenced to death for high treason.
1689 – King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1797 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
1821 – The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.
1846 – The ill-fated Donner Party left Independence, Missouri for California.
1862 – U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
1873 – Coronation of Oscar II of Sweden.
1881 – Under threat of invasion, Tunisian monarch Muhammad III as-Sadiq agreed to make Tunisia a French protectorate. Tunisia would remain under French control until 1956.
1885 – North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1926 – General Strike: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1933 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies.
1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
1937 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
1943: British premier Winston Churchill arrives for a visit to the U.S.
1945 – Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved.
1948 – Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne.
1949 – The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
1949 – The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: The Federal Republic of Germany.
1952 – Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
1955 – Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore's bid for independence.
1955 – Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.
1957 – Alfonso de Portago crashes during the Mille Miglia, killing himself, his co-driver, Ed Nelson and ten spectators – five of whom were children.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
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1962: An old and frail General Douglas MacArthur gave his famous “Duty, Honor, Country” speech to graduating West Point cadets.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.
1970: In Major League Baseball Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run.
1975 – Mayaguez incident: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters.
1978 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order.
1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners.
1982 – During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan María Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow".
1986 – NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
1989 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
1998 – Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people.
2006 – Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
2006 – Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country.
2007 – Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
2015 – A train derailment in Philadelphia kills 8 people and injures over 200.
2015 – A 7.3-magnitude earthquake, considered an aftershock of the 7.8 earthquake of April 25, hit Nepal. 2015 Nepal earthquake
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Nereus, Achilles, the Virgin Domitilla, and Pancras, Martyrs. Semi-double.
Lowliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Greater Double.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Imelda
Blessed Joan of Portugal
Crispoldus
Dominic de la Calzada
Epiphanius of Salamis
Modoald
Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras
Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople
Philip of Agira
Blessed Joan of Portugal
Crispoldus
Dominic de la Calzada
Epiphanius of Salamis
Modoald
Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras
Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople
Philip of Agira
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Saint Domitilla the martyr (c. 81-96)
Saints Nereus and Achilleus the martyrs (100)
Saint Dracontius, Bishop of Nicaea (c. 1st to 3rd c.)
Saint Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis and Metropolitan of Cyprus (403)
Saint Calliope (Callitropos), nun, sister of St. Epiphanius of Cyprus
Saint Sabinus, Archbishop of Cyprus (successor of St. Epiphanius
to the Cypriot cathedra) (5th c.)
Saint Polybius, Bishop of Cyprus, Wonderworker (5th c.)
Saint Theophanes, Archbishop of Cyprus (7th c.)
Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (740)
Venerable Theodore of Kythera, ascetic (922)
Saints Nereus and Achilleus the martyrs (100)
Saint Dracontius, Bishop of Nicaea (c. 1st to 3rd c.)
Saint Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis and Metropolitan of Cyprus (403)
Saint Calliope (Callitropos), nun, sister of St. Epiphanius of Cyprus
Saint Sabinus, Archbishop of Cyprus (successor of St. Epiphanius
to the Cypriot cathedra) (5th c.)
Saint Polybius, Bishop of Cyprus, Wonderworker (5th c.)
Saint Theophanes, Archbishop of Cyprus (7th c.)
Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (740)
Venerable Theodore of Kythera, ascetic (922)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Philip of Agira the Hieromartyr (103)
Martyr Pancratius of Rome (304)
Martyr Dionysius (Denis), uncle of St. Pancratius (304)
Saint Díoma, teacher of St Declan of Ardmore, patron-saint of Kildimo
in Co. Limerick in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Modoald, Archbishop of Trier, related by blood and united by friendship
with most of the saints of the Merovingian period (640)
Saint Rictrudis, Abbess of Marchiennes Abbey in Flanders (688)
Saint Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury (805)
Martyr Pancratius of Rome (304)
Martyr Dionysius (Denis), uncle of St. Pancratius (304)
Saint Díoma, teacher of St Declan of Ardmore, patron-saint of Kildimo
in Co. Limerick in Ireland (5th c.)
Saint Modoald, Archbishop of Trier, related by blood and united by friendship
with most of the saints of the Merovingian period (640)
Saint Rictrudis, Abbess of Marchiennes Abbey in Flanders (688)
Saint Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury (805)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Euthemius (Euthymius), Patriarch of Jerusalem (c. 1084? c. 1224?)
Saint Nikitas the Sinaite
New Martyr John of Serres (15th c.)
Saint Theophanes, Bishop of Solea (Solia), Cyprus, later a hermit
in the Troodos Mountains; the Outpourer of Myrrh (1550)
Monk Dorotheus, (disciple of St. Dionysius of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra) (1622)
Venerable Dionysius of Radonezh, Archimandrite of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra(1633)
New Martyr John of Wallachia, at Constantinople (1662)
Saint Anthony (Medvedev) of Radonezh, Archimandrite
of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1877)
Repose of Saint Nectarius (Tikhonov) of Optina (1928)
Holy Elders of the Sofronievo-Molchensk (Molchansk) Hermitage
(glorification in 2009): Archimandrite Theodosy (Maslov);
Hieromonk Serapion; Monk Sophronius (Batovrin);
Novice Sergius (Tikhonov), fool-for-Christ.
Saint Nikitas the Sinaite
New Martyr John of Serres (15th c.)
Saint Theophanes, Bishop of Solea (Solia), Cyprus, later a hermit
in the Troodos Mountains; the Outpourer of Myrrh (1550)
Monk Dorotheus, (disciple of St. Dionysius of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra) (1622)
Venerable Dionysius of Radonezh, Archimandrite of the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra(1633)
New Martyr John of Wallachia, at Constantinople (1662)
Saint Anthony (Medvedev) of Radonezh, Archimandrite
of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra (1877)
Repose of Saint Nectarius (Tikhonov) of Optina (1928)
Holy Elders of the Sofronievo-Molchensk (Molchansk) Hermitage
(glorification in 2009): Archimandrite Theodosy (Maslov);
Hieromonk Serapion; Monk Sophronius (Batovrin);
Novice Sergius (Tikhonov), fool-for-Christ.
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Martyr Abbess Athanasia (Lepeshkin), of the Smolensk Hodigitria
Convent near Moscow (1931)[
New Hieromartyr Peter Popov, priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
Martyr Evdokia Martishkinoy (1938)
Convent near Moscow (1931)[
New Hieromartyr Peter Popov, priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
Martyr Evdokia Martishkinoy (1938)
Other commemorations
Consecration of the Cathedral of the Theotokos at Kiev (in 996)
Glorification (1913) of Hieromartyr Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1612)
Discovery of the holy relics (1961) of Saint Irene of Lesvos the Virgin-martyr (1463)
Second Uncovering of the relics (1992) of Righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye (1642)
Glorification (1913) of Hieromartyr Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1612)
Discovery of the holy relics (1961) of Saint Irene of Lesvos the Virgin-martyr (1463)
Second Uncovering of the relics (1992) of Righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye (1642)
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