1634 – Johan van Walbeeck’s fleet departs to West Indies
1864 – General Ulysses S. Grant’s Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee’s Confederates at Rappahannock River
1898 – 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1942 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1945 – German forces in Bavaria surrender unconditionally to American commander Jacob L. Devers
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man and The Sea”
1959 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1973 – Wings release “Red Rose Speedway” in UK
1989 – US space shuttle STS-30 launched
1993 – “Angels in America-Millennium Approaches” opens at Kerr for 367 performances