EVENTS:
- 1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
- 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- 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.
- 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 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
- 1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak.
- 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
- 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.
- 2019 – The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season’s champion.
- 2023 – Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.
BIRTHS:
- 1649 – Chhatrasal, Indian warrior (d. 1731)
- 1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (d. 1731)
- 1767 – Tyagaraja, Indian composer (d. 1847)
- 1902 – Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (d. 1986)
- 1932 – Harlon Hill, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1943 – Prasanta Pattanaik, Indian economist and academic
- 1945 – N. Ram, Indian journalist
- 1958 – Delbert Fowler, American football player
- 1969 – Franz Resch, Austrian footballer and manager
- 1970 – Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer and coach
- 1983 – Trisha, Indian actress
- 1984 – Montell Owens, American football player
- 1984 – Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2007)
- 1985 – Ravi Bopara, English cricketer
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