Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
5 May 1980
Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
4 May 2014
Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
3 May 2000
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2 May 1989
Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
1 May 1945
Joseph Goebbels who was was a German Nazi politician and then Hitlers Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 takes his own life. Joseph Goebbels…
29 April 1968
The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some…
28 April 1996
Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23…