1607 English colonists led by John Smith establish Jamestown at a second landing near the James River in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America
1767 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus", written when he was 11 years old, premieres in Salzburg
1787 The First Fleet, headed by Arthur Phillip, sets sail with 11 ships of convicts for Botany Bay, Australia
1888 DeWolf Hopper first recites the comedic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat"
1940 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to the British House of Commons
1940 Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky pilots first untethered test flight of his VS-300 helicopter in Stratford, Connecticut
1943 WWII, German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
1945 US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
1950 First-ever race of the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship is run at Silverstone, England, and won by Giuseppe Farina of Italy in an Alfa Romeo
1952 Ron Necciai of Pittsburgh Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27 in 9-innings 
as he no-hits Welch Minors; 4 Minors do reach base1954 Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
1972 Milwaukee Brewers beat Minnesota Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
1978 Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
1983 Reggie Jackson becomes the first major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1989 Approximately 2,000 students begin a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China, to force a dialogue with the government ahead of a visit by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
1992 Three astronauts simultaneously walk in space for the first time
1994 MLB Cleveland Indians begin a 18 home game win streak at newly opened Jacobs Field
2004 The final episode of "Frasier" on NBC is watched by 33 million people
2012 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
2017 22-year-old UK blogger halts the spread of a global ransomware cyberattack by accidentally identifying a "kill switch"
