1818 – Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white strips and 20 stars.1850 – City of Los Angeles incorporated.
1859 – Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
1887 – Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
1902 – Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million.
1911 – Hugh Chambers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP.
1917 – US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I.
1922 – WAAB (Baton Rouge, La) becomes 1st US radio station with “W” calls.
1932 – George Bernard Shaw’s “Too True to be Good” premieres in NYC.
1937 – 4th Masters Golf Tournament: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283.
1945 – US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.
1948 – 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffin to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie.
1960 – 32nd Academy Awards – “Ben-Hur”, Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win.
1963 – Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks.
1968 – US civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
1972 – 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating.
1974 – Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th.
1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
1983 – 45th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52.
2005 – 67th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Illinois 75-70.
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