1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He is traditionally believed to have been the pharaoh of the Exodus.
455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
526 – A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch killing 250,000.
1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans.
1578 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich in England to Frobisher Bay in Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
1678 – The Lady Godiva procession in Coventry, England, began.
1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are allegedly adopted in the Province of North Carolina.
1790 – Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790, to protect plays, books, and maps, for a period of 14 years, with the right of renewal for another 14 years.
1795 – French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
1805 – French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock.
1813 – In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains.
1854 – The civil death procedure is abolished in France.
1859 – Big Ben, housed in the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament in London, goes into operation, chiming for the first time.
1862 – American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines (or Battle of Fair Oaks): Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade.
1866 – In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders over the next three days, at a cost of nine dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded.
1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York, New York, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1884 – Dr. John Harvey Kellogg applied for a patent on "flaked cereal and process of preparing same."
1884 – The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria
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1900 – Fifty-five U.S. Marines and sailors arrive in Beijing to defend U.S. diplomats from Boxers, members of a violent secret society that resent foreign influence. Soon, the small American guard will be besieged for 55 days.
1902 – Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war, which had raged for two-and-one-half years, between the South African Republic and the Republic of the Orange Free State on one side and Great Britain on the other, and ensures British control of South Africa.
1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
1910 – The Union of South Africa gained independence from the United Kingdom.
1911 – The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
1911 – The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1913 – The Seventeenth Amendment, providing for direct election of U.S. Senators, went into effect.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet under the command of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty engage the Imperial German Navy under the command of Reinhard Scheer and Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war. There was no clear-cut victor, although the British suffered heavier losses.
1921 – The Tulsa race massacre started when mobs of white residents attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma—a wealthy community known as "Black Wall Street" The official death toll was 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may have been much higher.
1924 – The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Beijing government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
1935 – A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
1941 – A Luftwaffe air raid on Dublin, Ireland, claims 38 lives.
1941 – Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
1942 – World War II: Five Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, and Newcastle, Australia.
1947 – Cold War: The communists forced Hungarian Premier Ferenc Nagy to resign his office under duress. Negy's four-year-old son, Lazlo, was kidnapped by the communists, who threatened the boy's life, while the Premier was out of the country.
1961 – The Union of South Africa quits the Commonwealth of Nations overits policy of apartheid and proclaims the Republic of South Africa.
1961 – In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
1970 – The 7.9 Mw Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794 and 70,000 people were killed and 50,000 were injured.
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed after three years of construction.
1981 – The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century.
1985 – United States–Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1988 – President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev wrapped up their fourth summit with one another, and the first in which Reagan travelled to Moscow.
1989 – A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
1991 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
1985 – United States–Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
1988 – President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev wrapped up their fourth summit with one another, and the first in which Reagan travelled to Moscow.
1989 – A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
1991 – Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission.
1994 – The United States announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
1997 – The Confederation Bridge opened, linking Prince Edward Island with the mainland New Brunswick, Canada.
2002 – Secretary of the Navy Gordon H. England issued Instruction 10520.6 which directed all U.S. Navy ships to fly the first Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign – thirteen alternating red and white stripes across which is a rattlesnake with the motto "Don't Tread On Me" – would be flown for the duration of the Global War on Terrorism.
2005 – Breaking a silence of 30 years, Vanity Fair reveals that former FBI official Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
2010 – In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
1997 – The Confederation Bridge opened, linking Prince Edward Island with the mainland New Brunswick, Canada.
2002 – Secretary of the Navy Gordon H. England issued Instruction 10520.6 which directed all U.S. Navy ships to fly the first Navy Jack in honor of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The ensign – thirteen alternating red and white stripes across which is a rattlesnake with the motto "Don't Tread On Me" – would be flown for the duration of the Global War on Terrorism.
2005 – Breaking a silence of 30 years, Vanity Fair reveals that former FBI official Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
2010 – In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
2013 – The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Apostle Hermes of Philippopolis (Hermas), of the Seventy Apostles (1st c.)
Martyr Hermias of Comana (160)
Martyr Magus (the Magician), who converted upon witnessing the martyrdom
of Hermias (160)
Martyr Philosophus at Alexandria (252)
Martyrs Eusebios and Charalampos, in Nicomedia, by fire
Five Martyrs of Ashkelon, dragged to death
Saint Eustathius, Patriarch of Constantinople (1025)
Martyr Hermias of Comana (160)
Martyr Magus (the Magician), who converted upon witnessing the martyrdom
of Hermias (160)
Martyr Philosophus at Alexandria (252)
Martyrs Eusebios and Charalampos, in Nicomedia, by fire
Five Martyrs of Ashkelon, dragged to death
Saint Eustathius, Patriarch of Constantinople (1025)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Virgin-martyr Petronilla, at Rome (1st or 3rd c.)
Martyr Crescentian, in Sassari in Sardinia (c. 130)
Martyrs Cantius, Cantian, Cantianilla and Protus, in Aquileia (304)
Saint Lupicinus of Verona, Bishop of Verona, described as 'the most holy,
the best of bishops' (5th c.)
Saint Paschasius, Deacon and Confessor in Rome, who is mentioned
by Pope Gregory I (512)
Saint Winnow, Mancus and Myrbad, Irish saints who lived in Cornwall
where churches are dedicated to them (6th c.)
Martyr Crescentian, in Sassari in Sardinia (c. 130)
Martyrs Cantius, Cantian, Cantianilla and Protus, in Aquileia (304)
Saint Lupicinus of Verona, Bishop of Verona, described as 'the most holy,
the best of bishops' (5th c.)
Saint Paschasius, Deacon and Confessor in Rome, who is mentioned
by Pope Gregory I (512)
Saint Winnow, Mancus and Myrbad, Irish saints who lived in Cornwall
where churches are dedicated to them (6th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Philotheus (Leschynsky) of Tobolsk, Metropolitan of Tobolsk
and the "Apostle of Siberia" (1727)
and the "Apostle of Siberia" (1727)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Hieromartyr Archpriest Philosophus (Ornatsky), with his sons Boris
and Nicholas, in St. Petersburg (1918)
Hieromartyrs Hierotheus (Afonin), Bishop of Nikolsk (1928),
and Hieroschemamonk Seraphim (Nikolsky) (1923)
and Nicholas, in St. Petersburg (1918)
Hieromartyrs Hierotheus (Afonin), Bishop of Nikolsk (1928),
and Hieroschemamonk Seraphim (Nikolsky) (1923)
Other commemorations
First translation of the relics (1591) of Hieromartyr Philip II, Metropolitan
of Moscow and all Russia (1569), to Solovki
Repose of Archimandrite Macarius of Peshnosha Monastery, disciple
of Blessed Theodore of Sanaxar (1811)
Finding of the relics (1960) of New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon,
of Mytilene (1463)
of Moscow and all Russia (1569), to Solovki
Repose of Archimandrite Macarius of Peshnosha Monastery, disciple
of Blessed Theodore of Sanaxar (1811)
Finding of the relics (1960) of New Martyr Nicholas the Deacon,
of Mytilene (1463)
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