1889 – George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time.
1909 – North Pole reached by American explorers Robert Peary & Mathew Henson.
1924 – 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight.
1930 – Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar.
1935 – H. Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more.
1941 – 8th Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club: Craig Wood wins his first major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson; Masters’ first wire-to-wire champion.
1950 – John Foster Dulles becomes advisor to US Secretary of State Acheson.
1959 – 31st Academy Awards: :”Gigi”, Susan Hayward & David Niven win.
1968 – Gas and gunpowder explosions at sporting goods store, downtown Richmond, Indiana, kills 41 and injures more than 150.
1973 – America launches the Pioneer II (Pioneer G) probe to study Jupiter & Saturn.
1979 – Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper, a 5-3 Orioles victory over the Chicago White Sox.
1980 – Post it Notes introduced.
1987 – 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams, Jr., Randy Travis, and Reba McEntire win.
1992 – 54th Men’s Basketball Championship: Duke beats Michigan, 71-51; back-to-back titles for Blue Devils and coach Mike Krzysewski.
1997 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Gil Morgan wins first of 3 Champions Tour majors by 6 strokes from Isao Aoki.
2009 – “Star Trek” film reboot directed by J.J. Abrams, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto premieres in Austin, Texas.
2014 – Kraft Nabisco Championship Women’s Golf, Mission Hills Country Club: 19-year-old Lexi Thompson shoots a bogey-free round 68 to win her first major title, 3 strokes ahead of Michelle Wie.
2020 – US COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000 in six weeks, with more than 356,000 American infected, New York death toll reaches 4,758.
2021 – Record-breaking price of $3.25 million for a comic book as Action Comics #1, that introduced Superman for the first time, sells at auction.
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