Daniel Ellsberg 1931 - Author, known for releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times
- 1864 - The first camel race in America was held in Sacramento, California.
- 1927 - The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington, DC, to New York City. The audience saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.
- 1933 - Prohibition ended in the United States.
- 1940 - Booker T. Washington became the first black to be pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.
- 1948 - The musical "South Pacific" by Rogers and Hammerstein debuted on Broadway.
- 1953 - IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer.
- 1988 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to final terms of a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet troops began leaving on May 16, 1988.
- 1994 - Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in the months that followed.
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