1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1886 – The Bay View Massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
1945 – World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.
1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1965 – The Warlocks, later known as The Grateful Dead, make their first public appearance in Menlo Park, California.
1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon are broadcast.
1985 – Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen: Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg, Germany, and the site of the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, where he makes a speech.
1988 – Adele, English singer-songwriter is born.
2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918) dies.
2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927) dies.
2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917) dies.
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