Hearing on the possible impeachment of Richard Nixon opened, 1974
Ezio Pinza died, 1957
Walter Philip Reuther, labor leader and UAW president, died, 1970
“Schuman Plan” announced, 1950
TV declared “A Vast Wasteland” by FCC chairman Newton Minnow, 1961
First Mother’s Day proclaimed, 1914
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, actor (“Top Gun”), married Mimi Rogers, 1987
William Bradford, pilgrim father, died, 1657
Christopher Columbus set sail on his fourth and final voyage to America, 1502
“Charlie McCarthy Show” first broadcast, 1937
First flight over the North Pole (Commander Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett), 1926
Confederate forces evacuated Norfolk, Virginia, 1862
First permanent English settlement in the US established (Jamestown, Virginia), 1607
“The Pill” first went on sale to the public, 1960
200 saints cut from the roster (including Nicholas and Christopher) by the Pope, 1969
Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist leader, hanged in her cell, 1976