1881 – American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton.
1906 – Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars.
1914 – Greyhound Bus Co. begins in Minnesota.
1918 – House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St. Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic.
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens.
1941 – SS Robin Moor becomes the first US ship sunk by a U-boat during World War II.
1954 – Twenty-sixth amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated.
1956 – US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll.
1961 – Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 – Robert F. Kennedy’s murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.
1971 – National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1977 – “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Winter Garden, New York City after 167 performances.
1989 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Nancy Lopez wins her championship by 3 strokes over Ayako Okamoto of Japan.
1996 – Ken Griffey Jr., 26, is 8th youngest to hit 200 home runs.
1999 – All My Children star Susan Lucci finally wins a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history.
2005 – 130th Preakness: Jeremy Rose aboard Afleet Alex wins in 1:55.04.
2013 – Microsoft announces the release of Xbox One.
2017 – Barnum & Bailey Circus performs for the last time at the Nassau Coliseum in New York City after 146 years.
2019 – Protests across American cities defending abortion rights after several US states pass new abortion laws.
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