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Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp.
Myanmar civil war: Government troops killed 37 unarmed civilians in Mondaingbin.
Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
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Start/Middle of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of Geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest is held in Malmö, Sweden. Nemo from Switzerland wins with their song "The Code", making them the contest's first non-binary winner.
The Burmese military executes at least 37 villagers during the Mon Taing Pin massacre in Sagaing, Myanmar.
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while covering a raid in Jenin. Israel eventually admitted and apologized for the murder, after initial denials.
One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad.
Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
Fifty-two people are killed in a bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey.
An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.
The Istanbul Convention is signed in Istanbul, Turkey.
David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard.
The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250 million in damage.
Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
Hödel assassination attempt by anarchist Max Hödel targetting the German Kaiser, Wilhelm I.
Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British.
William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across the Blue Mountains, opening up inland Australia to settlement.
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
Great Northern War: After losing the Battle of Helsinki to the Russians, the Swedish and Finnish troops burn the entire city, so that it would not remain intact in the hands of the Russians.
Louis IX of France and James I of Aragon sign the Treaty of Corbeil, renouncing claims of feudal overlordship in one another's territories and separating the House of Barcelona from the politics of France.
Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, is crowned Queen of England.
In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, Edgar the Peaceful is crowned King of England, having ruled since 959 AD. His wife, Ælfthryth, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.
A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published, the earliest dated and printed book known.
Constantine the Great dedicates the much-expanded and rebuilt city of Byzantium, changing its name to New Rome and declaring it the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.