1912 – Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories after being established by Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1922 – New York Giants pitcher Jesse Barnes no-hits Philadelphia Phillies 2-0.
1934 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley for his play “Men in White.”
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA which becomes the first record to be designated “gold.”
1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
1951 – International Olympic Committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics.
1956 – “Roy Campanella Night” draws the largest baseball crowd of 93,103 at the Los Angeles Coliseum as the New York Yankees beat Dodgers 6-2 in exhibition game.
1960 – USSR announces American pilot Francis Gary Powers confesses to being a CIA spy.
1965 – Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday” hits #1 song.
1975 – President Gerald Ford declares an end to “Vietnam Era.”
1980 – Convicted murderer Paul Geidel Jr., the longest serving prison inmate in the United States, paroled after 68 years and 296 days at the age of 86.
1982 – California federal jury rules National Football League violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders’ move to Los Angeles Coliseum.
1984 – $180 million out-of-court settlement reached between Vietnam veterans and seven chemical companies in Agent Orange suit.
1992 – Champion Puerto Rican jockey Angel Cordero Jr. retires after winning 7,057 thoroughbred horse races.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 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 and brings in $350 million on its opening weekend.
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.
2020 – Unemployment claims hit 33.3 million, or 20% of the workforce, compared to a 50-year low 3.5% two months ago.
2021 – Ransomware attack on US Colonial pipeline by the DarkSide criminal groups stops supply to half of the east coast.
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