1865—US President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis.
1876—Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League.
1878—US stops minting 20 cent coins.
1885—“Good Housekeeping” magazine is 1st published.
1908—1908 “Take me out to the Ball Game” registered for copyright.
1918—General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1929—Billie Holiday (14) and her mother are arrested for prostitution following the raid of a brothel in Harlem.
1938—Ella Fitzgerald records “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
1949—Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for “Death of a Salesman”
1954—Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader.
1964—90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00.
1969—British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY.
1974—Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred.
1984—“Sunday in the Park with George” opens at Booth NYC for 604 performances.
1997—Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating.
1999—John Elway announces his retirement from the National Football League.
2011—Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
2013—Rhode Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage.
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