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A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.
An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (evacuees pictured).
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A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children.
Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).
Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7.
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan MiloĆĄeviÄ and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Dunkeswick, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan JesĂșs Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.
The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.
Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the IranâIraq War.
Ecuadorian president Jaime RoldĂłs Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
Belle de Jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, is released.
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, CordĂłn Caulle begins to erupt.
United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
ArabâIsraeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
Börse Berlin building burns down after being hit in an air raid during World War II.
Congress of PĂ«rmet occurs which establishes a provisional government in Albania in areas under partisan control, the first independent Albanian government since 1939. In honor of this the national emblem of Albania inscribed this date from 1946 until 1992.
World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: In the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the pride of the Royal Navy, HMSÂ Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in CoyoacĂĄn, Mexico.
The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2â1 at Crosley Field.
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia, with Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth becoming the first Union officer to be killed during the war.
John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
South American independence leader SimĂłn BolĂvar enters MĂ©rida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded.
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
Magnus LadulÄs is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.