1830 – D Hyde patents fountain pen.
1861 – North Carolina becomes 11th and last state to secede from the Union.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patent the first blue jeans with copper rivets.
1916 – Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting.
1926 – Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots & planes.
1932 – Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland on her journey to become the 1st woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic.
1942 – US Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve.
1959 – Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car “Falcon”
1967 – 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam.
1969 – US troops capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.
1973 – 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family & Mary Tyler Moore win.
1983 – American heavyweight boxer Larry Holmes beats countryman Tim Wetherspoon by split decision to retain his WBC title at the Dunes Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas.
1985 – FBI arrests John A. Walker, Jr. convicted of spying for USSR.
1986 – Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-TV.
1991 – Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA’s MVP.
1995 – CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung.
2000 – 125th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Red Bullet wins in 1:56.00.
2012 – 20th Billboard Music Awards: Adele, 21 win.
2013 – Yahoo purchases Tumbler for $11 billion.
2015 – David Letterman, after 33 years, hosts the “Late Show with David Letterman” for the last time.
2020 – WHO reports most new cases in a single day – 106,000 worldwide of COVID-19.
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