1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1915 – Babe Ruth hits his first major league home run while pitching for the Boston Red Sox.
1931 – Willie Mays, American baseball Hall of Fame player and coach is born.
1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
1994 – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against United States President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
2004 – The series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC. The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the sixth most watched television series finale in U.S. history.
2006 – Lillian Asplund, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1906) dies.
2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Their captor, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody.
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