1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1540 – Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
1846: During the Mexican American War, one of the few battles of the war that took place within the United States - the Battle of Resaca de la Palma - was fought near Brownsville, Texas.
1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1865 – American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
1865 – American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation declaring armed resistance in the South is at an end, ending belligerent rights of the rebels, and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships. With the end of resistance this is the commonly accepted end date of the American Civil War.
1873 – Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1914: US President Woodrow Wilson declares today Mother's Day.
1915 – World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1918 – World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
1920 – Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1940 – World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 – Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
1948 – Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1951: The U.S. conducted its first thermonuclear experiment as part of Operation Greenhouse by detonating a 225-kiloton device on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific nicknamed “George.”
1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1958 – Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
1962: Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in reflecting a laser beam off the surface of the moon.
1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 – An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
1992 – Westray Mine Disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
2001 – In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2012 – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
2015 – An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
2015 – Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
1958 – Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
1962: Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in reflecting a laser beam off the surface of the moon.
1964 – Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1977 – Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 – An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
1992 – Westray Mine Disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
2001 – In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2012 – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
2015 – An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
2015 – Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Gregory of Nazianzus, Patriarch of Constantinople, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church.
Greater Double.
Contemporary Western
Beatus of Lungern
Beatus of Vendome
George Preca
Gerontius of Cervia
Pachomius the Great
Tudy of Landevennec
Beatus of Vendome
George Preca
Gerontius of Cervia
Pachomius the Great
Tudy of Landevennec
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Nicolaus Zinzendorf (Lutheran)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Prophet Isaiah (8th c. BC)
Great-martyr Christopher of Lycia (c. 249–251), and with him:
Martyrs Callinica (Callinike of Lycia), and Aquilina (Aquilina of Lycia)
(c. 249 – 251)
Saint Maximus III of Jerusalem, Patriarch (350)
Saint Shio of Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th c.)
Monk-martyr Nicholas of Vouneni, in Thessaly (901)
Great-martyr Christopher of Lycia (c. 249–251), and with him:
Martyrs Callinica (Callinike of Lycia), and Aquilina (Aquilina of Lycia)
(c. 249 – 251)
Saint Maximus III of Jerusalem, Patriarch (350)
Saint Shio of Mgvime, monk, of Georgia (6th c.)
Monk-martyr Nicholas of Vouneni, in Thessaly (901)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Beatus, Apostle of Switzerland (2nd century)[13]
Martyrs Epimachus and Gordianus of Rome, in the persecution
of Decius (c. 249 – 251)
Saint John of Châlon, third Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône in France (c. 475)
Saint Gerontius, bishop of Cervia near Ravenna in Italy, martyr (c. 501)
Saint Sanctan, Bishop of Kill-da-Les and Kill-na-Sanctan
near Dublin in Ireland (6th c.)
Blessed Adalgar, third archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen (909)
Saint Vincent, Abbot of St Peter de Montes in Spain, a disciple
and successor of St. Gennadius of Astorga (c. 950)
Saint Gregory, Bishop of Ostia (c. 1044)
Martyrs Epimachus and Gordianus of Rome, in the persecution
of Decius (c. 249 – 251)
Saint John of Châlon, third Bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône in France (c. 475)
Saint Gerontius, bishop of Cervia near Ravenna in Italy, martyr (c. 501)
Saint Sanctan, Bishop of Kill-da-Les and Kill-na-Sanctan
near Dublin in Ireland (6th c.)
Blessed Adalgar, third archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen (909)
Saint Vincent, Abbot of St Peter de Montes in Spain, a disciple
and successor of St. Gennadius of Astorga (c. 950)
Saint Gregory, Bishop of Ostia (c. 1044)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Dmitry Donskoy, Prince of Moscow (1389)
New Hieromartyr Methodius of Amaria, Crete (1793)
Saint Joseph (Litovkin) of Optina, Hiero-schema-monk
of Optina Monastery (1911)
New Hieromartyr Methodius of Amaria, Crete (1793)
Saint Joseph (Litovkin) of Optina, Hiero-schema-monk
of Optina Monastery (1911)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Voskresensky, Priest (1938)
New Hieromartyr Basil Kolosov, Priest (1939)
New Martyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya) Ukraine
New Hieromartyr Basil Kolosov, Priest (1939)
New Martyrs of Slobozhanschyna (Slobodskaya) Ukraine
Other commemorations
Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari in 1087
Zaraysk Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1225)
Translation of the relics (1775) of Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk (1690)
Zaraysk Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1225)
Translation of the relics (1775) of Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk (1690)
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