1863 – Stonewall Jackson attacking Chancellorsville is wounded by his own men.
1865 – US President Andrew Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis.
1885 – “Good Housekeeping” magazine is 1st published.
1890 – Territory of Oklahoma created.
1908 – “Take me out to the Ball Game” registered for copyright.
1916 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Harrison Drug Act.
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1927 – U.S. Supreme Court’s “Buck v. Bell”, permits forced sterilizations of various “unfits” by states’ authorized where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons.
1946 – The “Battle of Alcatraz” takes place, killing two guards and three inmates.
1949 – Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”
1955 – Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1960 – House investigating committee, looking into payola questions.
1972 – 126 killed in an electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine, Kellogg, Idaho.
1974 – Former US Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred.
1975 – Apple records closes down.
1981 – Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes.
1994 – Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides.
1997 – Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating.
2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2018 – Iowa passes US’s strictest abortion ban, based on a fetal heartbeat.
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