1872 – Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
1916 – 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1920 – Joan of Arc (Jeanne D’arc) canonized a saint
1920 – Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1925 – 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1945 – Violent battles around Sugar Loaf and Half Moon, Okinawa
1965 – 18th Cannes Film Festival: “The Knack…and How to Get It” directed by Richard Lester wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
1982 – “Barnum” closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1997 – Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
2004 – Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine where during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians