1838, Edgar Bergen 1903, Sonny Bono 1935 - Singer (Sonny and Cher), William Katt 1951 - Actor
Margaux Hemingway 1955, LeVar Burton 1957 - Actor, John McEnroe 1959 - Tennis player
1857 - The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College.
1883 - "Ladies Home Journal" began publication.
1937 - Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont.
1959 - Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.
1960 - The U.S.S. Triton began the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip ended on May 10.
1968 - In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.
1989 - Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed.
2005 - The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect in 140 nations.
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