1911 – “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” record by Fred Fisher and Alfred Bryan, sung by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
1944 – 76th Belmont: G. L. Smith riding Bounding Home wins in 2:32.2
1949 – Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1969 – Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder)
1981 – Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt
1984 – 38th Tony Awards: Real Thing and La Cage Aux Folles win
1989 – Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing
2012 – Tiger Woods claims his 73rd PGA tour victory with a 2 stroke win over Andrés Romero and Rory Sabbatini in the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village GC; equals Jack Nicklaus’s record
2013 – 119 people are killed in a poultry farm fire in Jilin Province, China
2021 – NASA launches 128 baby squid and 5,000 microscopic animals, to study effects of spaceflight, to the International Space Station aboard Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket