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• In 1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
• In 1933, Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
• In 1943, Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to Thornton Wilder for his play "The Skin of Our Teeth" and Upton Sinclair for "Dragon's Teeth."
• In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
• In 1952, the Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time on CBS; the winner was Hill Gail.
• In 1960, the Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical "The Fantasticks" began a nearly 42-year run at New York's Sullivan Street Playhouse.
• In 1971, the National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" made its debut.
• In 1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.
• In 1986, in NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.
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• Ten years ago: President George W. Bush told a news conference in Crawford, Texas, it was a matter of when - not if - weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq. Pope John Paul II urged hundreds of thousands of young people outside Madrid to be "artisans of peace." New Hampshire awoke to find its granite symbol of independence and stubbornness, the "Old Man of the Mountain," had collapsed into rubble. "Funny Cide" rolled to victory in the Kentucky Derby. Model and actress Suzy Parker died in Montecito, Calif.
• Five years ago: Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses, meaning the candidates split the pledged delegate votes. Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby by 4 3/4 lengths. (Filly Eight Belles finished second and then broke both front ankles; she was euthanized on the track.)
• One year ago: U.S. officials published online a selection of letters from Osama bin Laden's last hideaway; the documents portrayed a network that was weak, inept and under siege - and its leader seemingly near wit's end about the passing of his global jihad's glory days.
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