1840 – Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi, kills 317.
1914 – Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1917 – In a testament to his pitching ability, future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth leads the Boston Red Sox to a 1-0 victory against the Washington Senators and legend Walter Johnson.
1928 – The United Kingdom lowers the age of women voters from 30 to 21.
1938 – 64th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Lawrin scores first of record 5 Derby wins.
1941 – British House of Commons votes for Winston Churchill (477-3)
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA, it becomes 1st record to be designated “gold”
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
1956 – Pulitzer Prize for Drama awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for their play “The Diary of Anne Frank”
1959 – “Roy Campanella Night”: Largest baseball crowd of 93,103 at the LA Coliseum see Yankees beat Dodgers 6-2 in exhibition game.
1960 – USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.
1966 – Mamas & Papas “Monday Monday” hits #1.
1975 – President Gerald Ford declares an end to “Vietnam Era”
1984 – $180 million 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 DaimlerChrysler in the then largest industrial merger in history.
2011 – “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, premieres in-opening weekend and makes $350.6m.
2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 set record highs.
2018 – Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.
2019 – Hackers seize control of the computer system of Baltimore, demanding a ransom in Bitcoins to unlock them.
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