1835 – James Gordon Bennett Sr. published the first issue of the New York Herald. An edition cost 1 cent.
1851 – American physician and inventor John Gorrie patents a “refrigeration machine” to make ice.
1896 – Samuel Pierpoint Langley files his unpiloted Number 5 aircraft using a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River. The aircraft travels almost 3/4 of a mile, which is ten times further than any previous heavier-than-air flying machine.
1915 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits his first Major League Baseball home run and pitches 12 innings in the Boston Red Sox 5-4 extra innings loss to the New York Yankees.
1929 – New York to San Francisco foot race begins.
1940 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to John Steinbeck for the book “The Grapes of Wrath.”
1941 – At California’s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1954 – English athlete Roger Bannister becomes first to run a sub-4 minute mile, recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road Track in Oxford.
1957 – Pulitzer Prize for Biography awarded to John F. Kennedy for “Profiles in Courage.”
1965 – Jerry Sloan is selected by the Baltimore Bullets as the fourth overall pick of the 1965 NBA draft.
1968 – Columbia Records releases “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison,” the first live album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash.
1974 – Smallest attendance of 4,149 spectators at Philadelphia’s Veteran Stadium.
1982 – Seattle Mariners’ Gaylord Perry becomes the 15th pitcher to win 300 games.
1985 – 17th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-B) Challenger 7 lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
1993 – Space shuttle STS-55 (Columbia) lands.
1997 – National Hockey League’s Hartford Whalers become the Carolina Hurricanes.
2002 – Entrepreneur Elon Musk founded SpaceX.
2011 – The US Department of Labor states that 244,000 jobs were created in April with 235,000 added in February and 221,000 in March, but unemployment continues to grow, reaching 9%.
2013 – Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list.
2020 – At least 90,000 healthcare workers worldwide infected by COVID-19 with more than 260 nurses having died, according to the International Council of Nurses.
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