1644 – Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes Emperor of China and flees Peking
1707 – English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; creates the United Kingdom of Great Britain (comes into being 1st May)
1854 – Ashmun Institute (later Lincoln University), in Hinsonville, Pennsylvania, receives its charter from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, making it the 1st degree-granting Black college in US
1862 – 100,000 federal troops prepare to march into Corinth, Mississippi
1864 – The Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York
1953 – Milwaukee Braves’ Joe Adcock is 1st to homer into New York’s Polo Grounds center field bleachers
1995 – KC Royal John Nonely is 70th to HR on his 1st at bat
1996 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fresno, California on KFRR 104.1 FM