1654 – Bridge at Rowley, Mass. begins charging tolls for animals.
1662 – Royal charter granted to Connecticut.
1765 – 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia.
1802 – Washington, DC is incorporated as a city.
1861 – Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen.
1915 – John McCrae writes the poem “In Flanders Fields”
1921 – West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax.
1936 – NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits.
1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With the Wind.”
1944 – Meat rationing ends in US.
1948 – 1st broadcast of “CBS Evening News” – longest running network news show in the US.
1958 – WINS suspends DJ Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits.
1960 – Musical “Fantasticks” by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, premieres in NYC (world’s longest running musical).
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 broadcasts.
1994 – 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Wynonna win.
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2014 – 140th Kentucky Derby: Victor Espinoza aboard California Chrome wins in 2:03:66.
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