1877 – President Rutherford B. Hayes has first White House telephone installed in the telegraph room.
1908 – First Mother’s Day observed in Philadelphia.
1917 – Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks during World War I.
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of the FBI.
1931 – Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey.
1946 – Boston Red Sox win 15th straight game, beating the New York Yankees 5-4. Joe DiMaggio hit a grand slam for New York.
1959 – Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan.
1960 – Atomic submarine USS Triton completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1966 – 25 degrees in Cleveland, the lowest temperature ever recorded in May.
1968 – Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the United States and North Vietnam.
1970 – Atlanta Braves’ Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5.
1971 – Special delivery postal rates go from 45 cents to 60 cents.
1976 – Paul Harvey’s daily syndicated program “The Rest of the Story” premieres on the ABC Radio Networks and continues until his death in 2009.
1983 – TV sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” last airs on ABC-TV.
1993 – Bill Walton is inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
1996 – Excel Communications Inc. becomes the youngest company ever to join the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), trading under the symbol ECI.
2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunain lands about 65 feet from President George W. Bush while giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia. It malfunctions and does not explode.
2017 – Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billion.
2017 – President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office.
2023 – Heaviest fighting in months between Israel and Palestinian militants as both sides launch air attacks, leaving over 20 dead in Gaza.
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