June 4
1917 – The very first Pulitzer Prizes are given:  Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history (for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days).  Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism (for his work for the New York World).