1894 – -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
1930 – First non-stop airplane flight from Europe to the US (37 hours)
1936 – First transatlantic “ping-pong” round-trip air flight from New York to England and back begins, piloted by Dick Merrill with Harry Richman
1940 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Hershey CC: Byron Nelson wins his first PGA C’ship, beating Sam Snead 1 up in the Monday 36-hole final
1949 – “The Third Man”, directed by Carol Reed, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles, is released in the United Kingdom (Academy Awards Best Cinematography 1950)
1990 – Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, San Francisco, California
1996 – Jerry Lewis’ 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
1996 – Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói (MAC) designed by Oscar Niemeyer inaugurated in Niterói, Brazil