1837 – Joseph Grimaldi, English comedian and actor, created the clown (b. 1779) dies.
1852 – Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist, invented the Petri dish (d. 1921) is born.
1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York City, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Karnival Kid", is released.
1971 – In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30.
1973 – The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War.
1985 – United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
2013 – Jean Stapleton, American actress, Edith Bunker from All in the Family, and singer (b. 1923) dies
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