1662 – Royal charter granted to Connecticut.
1802 – Washington, DC is incorporated as a city.
1851 – Sixth major fire in San Francisco destroys 1500-2000 buildings.
1901 – Fire destroys 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida.
1915 – John McCrae writes the poem “In Flanders Fields”
1921 – West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax.
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.
1960 – Musical “Fantasticks” by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, premieres in NYC (world’s longest running musical)
1965 – 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite.
1973 – Chicago’s Sears Tower, world’s tallest building (443 m), topped out.
1982 – President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcast.
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 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2003 – New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2016 – Ted Cruz suspends his campaign to be the Republican Presidential nominee.
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