1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996) is born.
1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player, actor, and minister (d. 2015) is born.
1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1940 – Al Pacino, American actor and director is born.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
1959 – The Saint Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960 – The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor, voice artist, comedian and producer is born.
1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911) dies.
2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2015 – Riots break out in Baltimore, Maryland following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody.
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