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.
1908 – “Take me out to the Ball Game” registered for copyright.
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’ authorities where such surgeries are practiced for eugenic reasons.
1932 – Jack Benny’s 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1938 – Ella Fitzgerald records “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
1939 – Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2.
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.
1970 – 1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
1974 – Former US Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred.
1983 – 6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga, California.
1994 – Dr. Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides.
1997 – Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating.
1998 – 124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02:20.
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.
2013 – Rhode Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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