585 BC - A solar eclipse occurred, as predicted by Thales , while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares[?] , leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates[?] from which other dates can be calculated.
1503 - Treaty of Everlasting Peace[?] between Scotland and England is signed.
1503 - James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married by Pope Alexander VI according to Papal Bull[?]
1588 - The Spanish Armada , with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel (it will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port)
1754 - French and Indian War : In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeats a French reconnaissance party in southwestern Pennsylvania
1774 - American Revolutionary War : The first Continental Congress convenes
1863 - American Civil War : The 54th Massachusetts , the first African American regiment, leaves Boston, Massachusetts to fight for the Union .
1892 - In San Francisco, California , John Muir organizes the Sierra Club .
1934 - Near Callender, Ontario[?] , the Dionne quintuplets[?] are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy .
1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers[?] 1937 - In Washington, DC President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge .
1940 - World War II : Belgium surrenders to Germany
1942 - World War II : In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich , Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people
1961 - Peter Benenson 's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers . This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International
1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed
1972 - Watergate Scandal : White House operatives break into the offices of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC
1975 - 15 West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos[?] thus creating the Economic Community of West African States .
1977 - In Southgate, Kentucky , the Beverly Hills Supper Club[?] is engulfed in fire, killing 165 inside.
1987 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defense and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow . He is immediately detained and will later be released on August 3 , 1988 .
1987 - A robot probe finds the wreckage of the USS Monitor Cape Hatteras[?] , North Carolina
1995 - Neftegorsk[?] , Russia is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killing at least 2000 people (2/3rd of the town's population).
1998 - Nuclear testing : Pakistan responds to a series of Indian nuclear tests with five of its own, promting the United States , Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions[?] .
1999 - In Milan , Italy , after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo de Vinci 's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper " is put back on display.
2002 - Washington DC 's medical examiner declares that Chandra Levy 's death was the result of homicide .
1371 - John the Fearless[?] , Duke of Burgundy (+ 1419 )
1588 - Pierre Seguier , chancellor of France (+ 1672 )
1660 - King George I of Great Britain (+ 1727 )
1759 - William Pitt the Younger , Prime Minister of Great Britain (+ 1806 )
1779 - Thomas Moore , poet (+ 1852 )
1807 - Louis Agassiz , zoologist and geologist (+ 1873 )
1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich[?] , chemist (+ 1918 )
1853 - Carl Larsson , painter (+ 1919 )
1884 - Eduard Benes , politician (+ 1948 )
1888 - Jim Thorpe , sportsman (+ 1953 )
1892 - Sepp Dietrich[?] , SS Adolf Hitler (+ 1966 )
1908 - Ian Fleming , author of James Bond books (+ 1964 )
1910 - T-Bone Walker , blues singer (+ 1975 )
1910 - Lady Rachel Kempson[?] , actress (+ 2003 )
1911 - Fritz Hochwälder[?] , author (+ 1986 )
1912 - Patrick White , author (+ 1990 )
1914 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith , World War II pilot (+ 1996 )
1915 - Joseph H. Greenberg , linguist (+ 2001 )
1916 - Walker Percy , author (+ 1990 )
1917 - Papa John Creach[?] , musician (+ 1994 )
1921 - Heinz G. Konsalik[?] , author (+ 1999 )
1922 - Lou Duva , boxing trainer
1923 - György Ligeti , composer
1923 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao , actor, director, producer (+ 1998 )
1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau[?] , baritone
1925 - Bülent Ecevit[?] , Prime Minister of Turkey[?]
1931 - Carroll Baker , actress
1934 - The Dionne quintuplets[?] , the world's first surviving quintuplets
1936 - Betty Shabazz[?] , civil rights leader and wife of Malcolm X
1938 - Osvaldo Romberg[?] , painter, architect
1938 - Jerry West[?] , basketball star
1944 - Rudy Giuliani , former mayor of New York City
1944 - Gladys Knight , singer
1945 - John Fogerty , musician ("Creedence Clearwater Revival ")
1946 - K. Satchidanandan , poet
1947 - Sondra Locke[?] , actress
1949 - Wendy O. Williams[?] , musician ("The Plasmatics ") (+ 1998 )
1962 - Roladn Gift[?] , musician ("Fine Young Cannibals[?] ")
1964 - Jeff Fenech , boxer
1965 - Chris Ballew , musician
1968 - Kylie Minogue , actress and singer
1805 - Luigi Boccherini , musician
1811 - Henry Dundas , 1st Viscount Melville, British minister
1849 - Anne Bronte , author
1940 - Friedrich Karl von Hessen
1948 - Unity Mitford , fascist sympthizer
1971 - Audie Murphy[?] , actor, war hero
1972 - King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna , mathematician
1993 - Billy Conn , boxer , actor
1994 - Julius Boros[?] , golfer
1998 - Phil Hartman , actor, comedian
2001 - Francisco Varela , biologist and philosopher
2003 - Ilya Prigogine , winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977
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Look yet abroad from the height o'er the sea whose salt wave I have tasted.
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It is an awkward youth, but still with very good manners;
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Yet I suppose this change can hardly as yet be effected.
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