1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre .
1264 - The Battle of Lewes begins.
1328 - Nicholas V is consecrated at St Peter's Basilica[?] in Rome by the bishop of Venice .
1588 - Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise[?] enters the city.
1689 - King William's War : William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France .
1780 - American Revolutionary War : Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1797 - First Coalition : Napoleon I of France conquers Venice .
1864 - American Civil War : Battle of Spotsylvania Court House : The "Bloody Angle" - thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die.
1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada .
1881 - In North Africa , Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
1885 - The four day Battle of Batoche[?] , pitting rebel French Canadians against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1926 - UK General Strike 1926United Kingdom , a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3 ).
1932 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
1937 - Coronation of King George VI of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey .
1942 - World War II : Battle of Kharkov[?] - In the eastern Ukraine , the Soviet Army initiates its first major offensive of the war. During the battle the Soviets will take the city of Kharko[?] back from the German Army.
1949 - The Soviet Union lifts its Blockade of Berlin .
1958 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada .
1967 - At Queen Elizabeth Hall[?] , England , Pink Floyd stages the first ever quadraphonic[?] rock concert.
1975 - Mayaguez incident : The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez [?] in international waters.
1999 - David Steel becomes the first Presiding Officer (speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament .
2000 - The Tate Modern opens in London
2002 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States , in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (+ 1560 )
1670 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (+ 1733 )
1803 - Justus von Liebig , chemist (+ 1873 )
1820 - Florence Nightingale , nurse (+ 1910 )
1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti , poet, painter (+ 1882 )
1845 - Gabriel Fauré , composer (+ 1924 )
1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge , U.S. statesman (+ 1924 )
1889 - Otto Frank , writer, father of Anne Frank (+ 1980 )
1892 - Fritz Kortner[?] , director (+ 1970 )
1899 - Indra Devi[?] , yogi (+ 2002 )
1900 - Helene Weigel[?] , actress (+ 1971 )
1907 - Katharine Hepburn , actress
1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin[?] , chemist (+ 1994 )
1912 - Archibald Cox , U.S. Solicitor General and Watergate special prosecutor
1914 - Howard K. Smith , journalist (+ 2002 )
1918 - Julius Rosenberg , spy (+ 1953 )
1921 - Joseph Beuys , artist (+ 1986 )
1921 - Farley Mowat , writer, naturalist
1924 - Tony Hancock , comedian (+ 1968 )
1925 - Yogi Berra , Baseball Hall of Famer
1928 - Burt Bacharach , composer
1936 - Frank Stella , painter
1937 - George Carlin , comedian
1942 - Ian Dury , rock star (+ 2000 )
1948 - Steve Winwood , singer ("Blind Faith ", "Traffic ")
1955 - Brett Gurewitz , guitarist for Bad Religion and NOFX 1962 - Emilio Estevez[?] , actor
1966 - Stephen Baldwin , actor
1970 - Mike Weir , golfer
1357 - Alphonso IV of Portugal
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
1845 - Janos Bacsanyi , Hungarian poet
1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard , German archaeologist
1884 - Bedrich Smetana , Czech composer
1889 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian satirist
1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans , French author
1925 - Amy Lowell , poet
1935 - Jozef Pilsudski , father of modern Poland
1944 - Max Brand[?] , author
1944 - Q , British writer
1956 - Louis Calhern , silent film actor
1986 - Elisabeth Bergner , actress
1988 - Chet Baker[?] , jazz trumpeter
1992 - Robert Reed , actor
2001 - Perry Como[?] , singer
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