Sir James Barrie 1860 - Writer, creator of Peter Pan
- 1754 - The first newspaper cartoon in America showed a divided snake "Join or die" in "The Pennsylvania Gazette."
- 1914 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a joint congressional resolution that designated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
- 1960 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for sale an oral birth-control pill for the first time.
- 1980 - A Liberian freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. Thirty-five motorists were killed and a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapsed.
- 1996 - In video testimony to a courtroom in Little Rock, AR, U.S. President Clinton insisted that he had nothing to do with a $300,000 loan in the criminal case against his former Whitewater partners.
- 2019 - Pope Francis issued a new church law that required all Catholic priests and nuns to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their superiors to church authorities.
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