Mug shots
Choosing the name Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected pope on April 19, 2005.
On the first conclave of the new millennium, white smoke billows from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel.
Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters
St. Louis nearly burns to the ground, the first Kentucky Derby is held, the Supreme Court strikes down segregated schools, the Senate Watergate Committee begins televised hearings, and same-sex marriages begin in Massachusetts, all on this day.