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Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, annulled Henry VIII's marriage to his first wife Catherine of Aragon (pictured), beginning events that would culminate in the English Reformation.
The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 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).
Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
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.
Hugues de Payens, first Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born c. 1070)
The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
The SpaceX Dragon 1 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station.
Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.