1862 – First pasteurization test was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard, heating dog blood and urine to 86 degrees Fahrenheit for six weeks, showing the liquids remained fresh and did not spoil.
1912 – Fenway Park opened with the homestanding Boston Red Sox beating the New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings.
1914 – President Woodrow Wilson, having dispatched more naval ships to Mexico, asked a joint session of Congress to approve armed forces, if necessary, involving the Mexican Revolution. Congress approved the request.
1935 – Radio program “Your Hit Parade” began broadcasting on NBC. The show featured a countdown of popular songs.
1945 – The United States 7th Army captured Nuremberg, Germany during World War II.
1962 – NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong took an X-15 to a height of 207,500 feet during a flight designed to test the new MH-96 control system.
1967 – The unmanned Surveyor 3 landed on the Moon after a 65-hour flight from Cape Kennedy.
1972 – Apollo 16’s John Young and Charles Duke landed on the Moon with Boeing’s Lunar Rover #2 in the fifth of six lunar landing missions by the United States.
1979 – President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia.
1983 – President Ronald Reagan signed a $165 billion bailout bill for Social Security to address its near-term and long-range financial issues.
1990 – Pete Rose pled guilty to filing false income tax returns, specifically for failing to report income from baseball memorabilia sales and gambling.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 24 others before committing suicide in Colorado.
2008 – Danica Patrick, driving for Andretti Green Racing, won the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female driver to win an IndyCar series race.
2022 – Online streaming service Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in a decade, losing 200,000 customers in the first quarter.
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