1862 – James Andrews steals Confederate train (General) at Kennesaw, Georgia
1900 – The US Congress passes the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory (effective 1 May)
1905 – French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1927 – Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek begins a counter-revolution by violently suppressing Communist groups
1938 – First US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses in New York
1954 – Joe Turner releases “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
1983 – Harold Washington elected Chicago’s 1st black mayor
1992 – Lynn Gunther of California threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
1992 – Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France
2009 – President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue