1899 – John Burr patents an improved rotary blade lawn mower in the US.
1901 – A financial panic begins in the USA following the struggle between two groups to control the railroads between the Great Lakes and the Pacific.
1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson proclaims Mother’s Day.
1926 – 1st flight over the North Pole claimed by Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett. Later discovery of Byrd’s diary suggests they may have turned back 150 miles short of the pole due to an oil leak.
1932 – 57th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8.
1937 – Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
1944 – 1st eye bank opens in New York.
1944 – Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes Governor of Louisiana.
1946 – 1st hour long entertainment TV show, “NBC’s Hour Glass” premiers.
1960 – US becomes first country to legalize the birth control pills.
1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow criticizes TV as a “vast wasteland”
1964 – Peter & Gordon release “World Without Love”
1971 – Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes.
1974 – US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on Nixon impeachment.
1980 – 35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge.
1989 – NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher.
1992 – Final episode of “Golden Girls” airs on NBC-TV.
2005 – Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched.
2012 – United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same-sex marriage.
2017 – US President Donald Trump dismisses FBI Director James Comey.
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