1789 – First US Presidential inaugural ball (for George Washington in NYC)
1947 – American Medical Association organizes (Philadelphia)
1912 – Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1938 – 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin scores first of record 5 Derby wins.
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA.
1943 – Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched.
1943 – US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia.
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
1947 – “Kraft Television Theater” premieres on NBC.
1954 – US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership of NATO.
1959 – “Roy Campanella Night”, Largest baseball crowd (93,103 in LA Coliseum) sees Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax beat Yankees 6-2 in exhibition.
1960 – USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.
1966 – Moma’s & Papa’s “Monday, Monday” hits #1.
1975 – US President Gerald Ford declares an end to “Vietnam Era”
1982 – California federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles Coliseum.
1984 – $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $US40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the then largest industrial merger in history.
2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs.
2019 – Hackers seized control of the computer system of the US city of Baltimore, demanding a ransom in Bitcoins to unlock them.
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