1903 – NY Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony (Marcioni) granted patent for a mound for making ice cream cones.
1917 – World War 1: An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
1933 – Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15.
1939 – “Gone With The Wind”, drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta (Best Picture 1940)
1939 – 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn in Seafold, Delaware.
1941 – The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
1948 – Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury.
1954 – Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons.
1955 – “Folsom Prison Blues” single by Johnny Cash (Billboard song of the Year 1968)
1956 – WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting.
1966 – John W. Mecon Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orleans Saints.
1973 – American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness.
1979 – Chris Haney and Scot Abbott develop the board game Trivial Pursuit.
1986 – Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift.
1992 – Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year.
2005 – The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.
2009 – Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
2011 – ESPN and the NCAA extend their TV rights deal through 2023-24, giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to 24 NCAA championships for various sports; deal worth $500m.
2020 – MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations across the US.
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