EVENTS:
- 1364 – Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland.
- 1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
- 1870 – The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
- 1926 – UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.
- 1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
- 1933 – The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies.
- 1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world’s first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
- 1952 – Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur.
- 1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
- 2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people.
- 2007 – Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
- 2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
- 2015 – A 7.3-magnitude earthquake and six major aftershocks hit Nepal, killing over 200 people.
- 2017 – A ransomware attack attacks over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the UK’S National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
- 2018 – Paris knife attack: A man was fatally shot by police in Paris after killing one and injuring several others.
- 2024 – Middle/End of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of Geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
BIRTHS:
- 1867 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (d. 1938)
- 1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982)
- 1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (d. 1986)
- 1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- 1926 – Viren J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal (d. 2013)
- 1945 – Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer and manager (d. 2007)
- 1956 – Asad Rauf, Pakistani cricketer and umpire
- 1970 – Steve Palframan, South African cricketer
- 1987 – Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
- 1990 – Oliver Kragl, German footballer
- 2005 – Zach Benson, Canadian ice hockey player
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
