In 2011, Chicago’s Derrick Rose became at age 22 the NBA’s youngest MVP.

In 2009, Mexican President Felipe Calderon told state television that a nationwide shutdown and an aggressive informational campaign appeared to have helped curtail an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico.

Three‑year‑old Madeleine McCann goes missing in Portugal

Students protest at the Sorbonne in Paris, kicking off month of unrest

In 1960, the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical “The Fantasticks” began a nearly 42-year run at New York’s Sullivan Street Playhouse.

Supreme Court rules in Hernandez v. Texas, broadening civil rights laws

Joseph Fletcher lands first aircraft on the North Pole

Congressional hearings on General MacArthur begin

U.S. Supreme Court decides Paramount antitrust case

In 1948, the Supreme Court, in Shelley v. Kraemer, ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to Blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.