1803 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
1861 – President Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seaman.
1910 – Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is renamed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
1921 – West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax.
1923 – 1st nonstop north American transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed.
1933 – Nellie T Ross the 1st female director of the US Mint takes office.
1936 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits.
1941 – 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway, 1st leg of Triple Crown.
1944 – Meat rationing ends in US.
1952 – 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole.
1954 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick.
1965 – 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite.
1971 – “All Things Considered” premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations.
1973 – Chicago’s Sears Tower, world’s tallest building (443 m), topped out.
1982 – President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcast.
1991 – 356th & last episode of CBS second longest running series “Dallas”, (2nd only to Gunsmoke”)
1994 – 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Wynonna win.
2002 – “Spider-Man”, starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin, premieres.
2016 – Ted Cruz suspends his campaign to be the Republican Presidential nominee.
2018 – Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan becomes NFL’s first $30m per season player after agreeing to $150m contract extension.
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