1789 – First US Presidential inaugural ball (for George Washington, in NYC)
1840 – Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, kills 137.
1877 – Cincinnati Enquirer first uses term “Bullpen” to indicate foul territory.
1912 – Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – US Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1943 – Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched.
1943 – US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia.
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renames Sony) is launched with around 20 employees.
1953 – “Can Can” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 892 performances.
1956 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett.
1960 – USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.
1962 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H. White (Making of President 1960)
1975 – US President Gerald Ford declares an end to “Vietnam Era”
1982 – IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1.
1984 – $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit.
1992 – Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion and forms Daimler Chrysler in the then largest industrial merger in history.
2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set records highs.
2013 – Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage.
2018 – Iran-Contra figure Oliver North announced as the new President of the US National Rifle Association.
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