1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.
1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first of the thirteen American colonies to renounce allegiance to King George III of England and declare Independence.
1780 – The first running of the Epsom Derby horse race, after which more than 140 other races are named, took place.
1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1814 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
1836 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians.
1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
1865 – Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois.
1865 – Surrender of the Confederate departments of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana at Citronelle, Alabama.
1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan.
1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1902 – Eight fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, Ireland in a drowning tragedy.
1904 – The United States took over construction of the Panama Canal from France, which started the project in 1881. The canal was opened in August 1914, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and bypassing the difficult route around South America.
1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
1912 – Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
1926 – The United Kingdom general strike begins.
1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
1945 – World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath: The North German Army, including all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark, and northwest Germany, surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1945 – World War II: Denmark is granted liberation when Germany is forced to step out of Denmark, ending five years of occupation.
1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot.
1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The first Grammy Awards are held.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The first group of “Freedom Riders” leave Washington, D.C., on a bus trip through the South to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals.
1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: Ohio National Guardsmen, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
1978 – The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 – At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA launches space shuttle Atlantis.
1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
1990 – Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
2002 – An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff, killing 149 people.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita Scale.
2014 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
2015 – The Parliament of Malta moves from the Grandmaster's Palace to a purpose-built Parliament House.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
John, Cardinal Bishop of Rochester, Thomas More, and their companions, Martyrs. Greater Double.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla
Florian
Gotthard of Hildesheim
Judas Cyriacus
Saint Monica
Sacerdos of Limoges
Venerius of Milan
Florian
Gotthard of Hildesheim
Judas Cyriacus
Saint Monica
Sacerdos of Limoges
Venerius of Milan
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era (Church of England)
F. C. D. Wyneken (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Tarsus in Asia Minor (287)
Hieromartyr Albian (Olbian), Bishop of Anaea in Asia Minor,
and his disciples (284-303)
Martyrs Aphrodisius, Leontius, Anthony, Valerian, Macrobius, and 60 others,
monks at Scythopolis of Palestine (beginning of the 4th c.)
Hieromartyr Silvanus of Gaza, bishop, and with him 40 martyrs (311)
Saint Hilary of the desert, the Wonderworker
Saint Nicephorus of Medikion, abbot and founder of Medikion Monastery (813)
Saint Athanasios of Corinth, bishop (10th-11th c.)
Hieromartyr Albian (Olbian), Bishop of Anaea in Asia Minor,
and his disciples (284-303)
Martyrs Aphrodisius, Leontius, Anthony, Valerian, Macrobius, and 60 others,
monks at Scythopolis of Palestine (beginning of the 4th c.)
Hieromartyr Silvanus of Gaza, bishop, and with him 40 martyrs (311)
Saint Hilary of the desert, the Wonderworker
Saint Nicephorus of Medikion, abbot and founder of Medikion Monastery (813)
Saint Athanasios of Corinth, bishop (10th-11th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Porphyrius (250)
Saint Curcodomus, a deacon in Rome sent to help St Peregrinus (2nd c.)
Hieromartyr Erasmus of Formiae, bishop in Campania,
and 20,000 martyrs with him (303)
Martyrs Florian and 40 companions, at Lorsch, Austria (304)
Saint Monica of Tagaste, the mother of St. Augustine of Hippo (387)
Saint Nepotianus, nephew of St Heliodorus, Bishop of Altino
near Venice in Italy (395)
Saint Venerius of Milan, second bishop of Milan, a loyal supporter
of St John Chrysostom (409)
Saint Conleth, first Bishop of Kildare (c. 519)
Saint Anthony du Rocher, a disciple of St Benedict and companion of St Maurus in his
mission to France, founder of the monastery of Saint Julian in Tours (6th c.)
Saint Æthelred (Ethelred, Ailred), king of Mercia and monk (716)
Saint Sacerdos of Limoges, Bishop of Limoges (720)
Saint Gotthard of Hildesheim, became Bishop of Hildesheim in 1022 and did much
to spread the Faith (1038)
Saint Curcodomus, a deacon in Rome sent to help St Peregrinus (2nd c.)
Hieromartyr Erasmus of Formiae, bishop in Campania,
and 20,000 martyrs with him (303)
Martyrs Florian and 40 companions, at Lorsch, Austria (304)
Saint Monica of Tagaste, the mother of St. Augustine of Hippo (387)
Saint Nepotianus, nephew of St Heliodorus, Bishop of Altino
near Venice in Italy (395)
Saint Venerius of Milan, second bishop of Milan, a loyal supporter
of St John Chrysostom (409)
Saint Conleth, first Bishop of Kildare (c. 519)
Saint Anthony du Rocher, a disciple of St Benedict and companion of St Maurus in his
mission to France, founder of the monastery of Saint Julian in Tours (6th c.)
Saint Æthelred (Ethelred, Ailred), king of Mercia and monk (716)
Saint Sacerdos of Limoges, Bishop of Limoges (720)
Saint Gotthard of Hildesheim, became Bishop of Hildesheim in 1022 and did much
to spread the Faith (1038)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Theodosia (Fedosia), princess of Vladimir, (wife of Jaroslav
Vsevolodovich; mother of St. Alexander Nevsky) (1244)
Saint Nicephorus (the Solitary, the Hesychast) of Mount Athos,
teacher of St. Gregory Palamas (before 1300)
The Alfanov brothers of Novgorod:
Saints: Nicetas, Cyril, Nicephorus, Clement, and Isaac of Novgorod;
founders of the Sokolnitzki Monastery in 1389
Vsevolodovich; mother of St. Alexander Nevsky) (1244)
Saint Nicephorus (the Solitary, the Hesychast) of Mount Athos,
teacher of St. Gregory Palamas (before 1300)
The Alfanov brothers of Novgorod:
Saints: Nicetas, Cyril, Nicephorus, Clement, and Isaac of Novgorod;
founders of the Sokolnitzki Monastery in 1389
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr John Vasiliev, priest, (1942)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Tochtuev, deacon, (1943)
New Hieromartyr Vasily Martysz, Archpriest (1945)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Tochtuev, deacon, (1943)
New Hieromartyr Vasily Martysz, Archpriest (1945)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics of the Righteous Lazarus and Saint Mary Magdalene,
Equal-to-the-Apostles, to Constantinople
Icon of the Mother of God "Staro Rus" (Staraya Russa) Old Russian (1570)
Equal-to-the-Apostles, to Constantinople
Icon of the Mother of God "Staro Rus" (Staraya Russa) Old Russian (1570)
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