1780 – American Academy of Arts & Science founded in Boston, James Bowdoin, John and Samuel Adams founding members.
1805- Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx.
1846 – Michigan ends death penalty.
1883 – John Gordon Cashman publishes 1st edition “Vicksburg Evening Post” (Mississippi).
1904 – Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. Go on to form Rolls-Royce.
1927 – Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928.
1942 – Food 1st rationed in US.
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man & The Sea.”
1959 – First Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win.
1964 – “Another World” premieres on TV in the US.
1965 – Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott’s 511th National League record.
1974 – 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero, Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04.
1982 – Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans.
1989 – NASA launches Magellan mission to Venus from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1991 – Morris K. Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease.
1991 – US President George H.W. Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2008 – Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep “Family Guy” and “American Dad” on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world’s highest paid television writer.
2013 – Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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