1905 – Confederate battle flags captured during the Civil War are returned to the Southern states they originated from.
1913 – Great Dayton Flood: Winter rains cause the Great Miami River to flood, resulting in Ohio’s worst natural disaster.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League of Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference.
1934 – First Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf: Horton Smith wins with a 20-foot birdie putt at the 17th hole, 1 stroke ahead of Craig Wood.
1937 – It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for advertising.
1941 – Carolina Paprika Mills, which is known for growing, processing and packing hot peppers, is incorporated in Dillon, South Carolina.
1951 – 5th Tony Awards: “Guys & Dolls” (musical) and “The Rose Tattoo” (play) win.
1954 – RCA manufactures the first color television set. It featured a 12.5 inch screen and cost $1,000.
1958 – Sugar Ray Robinson becomes the first boxer to win a divisional world championship five times, defeating Carmen Basilio to regain the middleweight title.
1965 – Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 people to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama in completing 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma.
1972 – America’s self-title album “America” reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts, propelled by the song “A Horse with No Name.”
1979 – Space Shuttle Columbia arrives at Kennedy Space Center to prepare for its first launch, which would happen in 1981.
1987 – The Supreme Court rules that gender-based workplace affirmative action plans do not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1996 – The United States issues a newly-designed $100 bill, which was the first major design change in American currency in 66 years.
2013 – Golfer Tiger Woods reclaims the world’s No. 1 ranking after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
2019 – Apple introduces a new TV streaming platform Apple TV+, news service and an Apple credit card at a star-studded event featuring Oprah Winfrey.
2024 – First widespread outbreak of bird flu in cows reported at farms in six American states, including one person at a Texas dairy farm.
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