Harry S. Truman (U.S.) 1884 - 33rd president of the United States
- 1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen.
- 1794 - The United States Post Office was established.
- 1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola."
- 1914 - The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
- 1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1945 - U.S. President Harry Truman announced that World War II had ended in Europe.
- 1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time.
- 1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school.
- 1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat".
- 1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola.
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