1903 – New York Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony (Marcioni) granted a patent for a mold to make ice cream cones.
1925 – First hockey game at Madison Square Garden in New York City: Montreal Canadiens 3, New York Americans 1.
1933 – Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15.
1938 – Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1939 – “Gone With the Wind,” a drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta. It wins Best Picture 1940 and inflation not adjusted is the highest-grossing film all time.
1941 – The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
1944 – Congress awards General Dwight Eisenhower his 5th star.
1952 – Christine Jorgenson is the first known American to undergo a sex-change operation.
1955 – “Folsom Prison Blues” single released by Johnny Cash (Billboard Song of the Year 1968)
1961 – Martin Luther King Jr. joins over 500 civil rights demonstrators in jail, arrested for protesting in Albany, Georgia.
1965 – Gemini 6 launched. It makes the first rendezvous in space with Gemini 7.
1973 – American kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by his grandfather, oil tycoon John Paul Getty.
1979 – Cris Haney and Scott Abbott develop the board game Trivial Pursuit.
1980 – New York Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield becomes the highest-paid player when signing a 10-year, $15 million contract.
1986 – Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift.
1997 – San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana’s #16.
2005 – The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.
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 in a deal worth $500 million.
2018 – Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas. The ruling was later reversed by United States Supreme Court.
2023 – Jury orders attorney Rudy Giuliani to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers in a civil defamation suit for spreading lies about them following the 2020 presidential election.
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