1908 – Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer register their popular song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” for copyright.
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1923 – Washington Senators’ Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats the New York Yankees 3-0.
1924 – President Calvin Coolidge proclaims ancient lava fields in Idaho as Craters of the Moon National Monument in order to “preserve the unusual and weird volcanic formations.”
1932 – Comedian Jack Benny’s first radio show premieres on the NBC Blue Network.
1938 – Singer Ella Fitzgerald records “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” with Chick Webb and his Orchestra.
1941 – FCC approves regularly scheduled commercial TV broadcasts to begin July 1.
1946 – “The Postman Always Rings Twice” film based on the novel by James M. Cain, directed by Tay Garnett, starring Lana Turner and John Garfield, is released.
1954 – St. Louis Cardinals’ Stan Musial hits five home runs in a doubleheader against the New York Giants at Busch Stadium.
1955 – Pulitzer Prize for Drama awarded to Tennessee Williams for his play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
1965 – Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service.
1974 – Former Vice President Spiro Agnew is disbarred.
1981 – Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with two fixes.
1988 – Baltimore Orioles sign a 15-year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park.
1994 – Pathologist and euthanasia advocate Jack Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides.
1999 – John Elway announces his retirement from the NFL.
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 the United States’ strictest abortion ban based on a fetal heartbeat.
2022 – Supreme Court draft opinion leaks suggesting Roe v. Wade about to be overturned published on news website Politico.
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