1654 – Bridge at Rowley, Mass begins charging tolls for animals.
1662 – Royal charter granted to Connecticut.
1765 – 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia.
1802 – Washington, DC is incorporated as a city.
1830 – 1st regular steam train passenger service starts.
1861 – President Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen.
1915 – John McCrae writes the poem “In Flanders Fields”
1921 – West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax.
1923 – 1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed.
1937 – Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for “Gone With The Wind”
1941 – 67th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway wins in 2:01:4.
1944 – Meat rationing ends in US.
1948 – 1st broadcast of “CBS Evening News” – longest running network news show in the US.
1956 – Frank Loesser’s musical “Most Happy Fella” opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 678 performances.
1965 – 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite.
1971 – “All Things Considered” premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations.
1980 – Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL.
1987 – Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart.
1994 – 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill and Wynonna win.
1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11,000 for the first time in its history at 11,014.70.
2014 – 140th Kentucky Derby: Victor Espinoza aboard California Chrome wins in 2:03:66.
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