This Day in History
• 1611 - First known performance of Shakespeare&# 39; s tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre,
• London, recorded by Simon Forman
• 1650 - Dutch East India Company ( VOC) management sets new guidelines
• 1657 - Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet • 1689 - The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry
• 1702 - Comet C/ 1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
• 1792 - France declares war on Austria, Prussia & amp; Sardinia
• 1809 - Napoleon I and French forces defeat Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
• 1862 - The first pasteurization test is completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. • 1910 - Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 mn km
• 1915 - The Armenians rise and seize the Turkish town of Van, which they hold until Russians • relieve them on 19 May; thousands of
Armenians are killed
• 1916 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast • 1940 - 1st electron microscope demonstrated ( RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
• 1958 - Morocco demands departure of
Spanish troops
• 1961 - American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
• 1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
• 1965 - People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
• 1967 - US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
• 1967 - US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
• 1968 - Pierre Trudeau sworn in as Canada's 15th Prime Minister
• 1972 - Apollo 16's Young & amp; Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
• 1983 - Soyuz T- 8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock
• 1983 - Soyuz T-8 is launched (lands 2 days later) • 1988 - US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
• 1993 - Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years • 1994 - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed• 1994 - Sohail & amp; Inzamam • make world record ODI partnership of 263
• 1994 - Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands • 1998 - TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain • after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53.