Stepin Fetchit 1892, Mel Blanc 1908, Benny Goodman 1909
Clint Walker 1927, Meredith MacRae 1945,Wynonna Judd 1964 - Country musician (The Judds)
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.
1539 - Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, landed in Florida with 600 soldiers to search for gold.
1848 - W.G. Young patented the ice cream freezer.
1868 - Memorial Day was observed widely for the first time in the U.S.
1911 - Ray Harroun won the first Indianapolis 500. At the time, it was known as International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race. Harroun's average speed was 74.59 miles per hour.
1921 - The U.S. Navy transferred the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1967 - The state of Biafra seceded from Nigeria and Civil war erupted.
1989 - The "Goddess of Democracy" statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1997 - Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, NJ, of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka. The 1994 murder inspired "Megan's Law," requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
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