** A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific method.

** Silver in Best world player of the year IFFHS: 1989

** World Scout Moot, a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18 – 26 from all over the world

** BI received an award by EDUNIVERSAL as one of the 35 most influential business schools in the world

** A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific method.

** After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.

** Judith Graham Pool publishes her discovery of cryoprecipitate, a substance that extends the lives of hemophiliacs around the world.

** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.

** Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

** Tara Lipinski, 14, becomes the youngest women's world figure skating champion.

** Alain Mosconi, French swimmer, Olympic medalist and previous world record holder

** Chess computer " Deep Blue " defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.

** Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses.

** The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).

** Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.

** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer and world Junior Middleweight champion

** John Henry Newman founds the first Oratory in the English-speaking world when he establishes the Birmingham Oratory at ' Maryvale ', Old Oscott, England.

** Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City.

** Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian woman supercentenarian and second oldest person in the world ( d. 2010 )

** National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.

** United States Bicentennial: From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

** In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of 2 cultures.

** Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee.

** Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.

** Pakistan celebrates Air Force Day on account of heavy retaliations to India.

** Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.

** In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary.

** Caesar celebrates his Gallic Triumph, after which Vercingetorix is executed.

** Cannes Classics – It celebrates the heritage of film, aiming to highlight works of the past, presented with brand new or restored prints.

** American Bandstand celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark.

** NASCAR celebrates its 50th anniversary

** In the Catholic and Anglican churches, the celebrant is the person who celebrates a sacrament, e. g., the priest who celebrates the Eucharist or the bishop who ordains a priest

** 1 April – The Sky at Night celebrates 50 years with a special anniversary edition.

** 19 February – EastEnders celebrates 25 years with a special live edition, where the murderer of Archie Mitchell is revealed.

** Global Electric Motorcars celebrates its 10th Anniversary

** May 5-The Resort celebrates 50th Anniversary with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

** Design brief or Parti pris – an early ( often the beginning ) statement of design goals

** Isidore the Laborer, celebrated with festivals in various countries, the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid.

** In the Spanish Basque country, Gascon was spoken in the centre of Donostia-San Sebastián, perhaps until the beginning of the 20th century.

** The beginning of the new liturgical year ( Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Church )

** The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet / Yugoslav split.

** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.

** Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge ( aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident ): Japanese forces invade China ( often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia ).

** The Communist Party of China issues the ' May 16 Notice ', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.

** Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies in Madrid, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.

** The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.

** The Utah Expedition leaves Fort Leavenworth, effectively beginning the Utah War.

** A dispute over grazing rights leads to the beginning of the Mauritania – Senegal Border War.

** The death of Hu Yaobang, which sparks the beginning of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

** António Vieira arrives, with his parents, in Bahia ( present-day Salvador ) in colonial Brazil, an unpromising beginning for his great career as a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, and protector of Brazilian Indians in an age of intolerance.

** An insurrection breaks out in Tizimín, beginning the campaign for the independence of Yucatan from Mexico.

** Royal Arch Masons take this year as the epoch for dating their documents Anno Inventionis after the beginning of the Second Temple by Zerubbabel.

** At the beginning of Ice Cube's music video for the song, " Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It ", from his 2007 album Raw Footage, a line of text states that " By the year 2020, no child will be left behind " which is followed by an Orwellian classroom setting designed as a segue into the song's sarcastic theme of blame-shifting and anti-gansta rap propaganda during the waning days of the presidency of George W. Bush.

** Principate ( 27 BC – 284 AD ) – first period of the Roman Empire, extending from the beginning of the reign of Caesar Augustus to the Crisis of the Third Century, after which it was replaced with the Dominate.

** Left-sided colitis: Involvement of the descending colon, which runs along the patient's left side, up to the splenic flexure and the beginning of the transverse colon.

** The first Era of the Two Trees, and the beginning of the count of Time.

** During the beginning of Porky in Wackyland, a newspaper man arrives behind the title card, yelling " Extra!

** The 92 route provides crosstown trips through Windsor beginning at Copaco in Bloomfield and ending at the Shoppes at Buckland Hills in Manchester.

** The priest then reads the Last Gospel, the beginning of the Gospel of John,, which recounts the Incarnation of the Son of God.