CBS

• THE BIG BANG THEORY (repeat)
• RULES OF ENGAGEMENT – (season finale) Jen puts the wrong date on the invitations to Audrey’s baby shower; Jeff likes Audrey’s maternity clothes.
• PERSON OF INTEREST – (season finale) Reese becomes trapped with his POI in a heavily surveilled part of the city and must rely on Finch, Carter and Fusco’s help.
• THE MENTALIST – (season finale) After Jane fails to defeat Red John, he finds a lover and shoots one of his own.

NBC

• COMMUNITY – Gilbert Lawson requests a meeting with Pierce at Hawthorne Enterprises.
• 30 ROCK – (season finale) Jack asks Liz to officiate his and Avery’s vow renewal; Tracy meets with Cornel West.
• COMMUNITY – The study group develops a plan to infiltrate Greendale’s Chang-controlled campus.
• COMMUNITY – (season finale) Shirley and Pierce’s disagreement over their sandwich shop leads to Jeff squaring off with Alan.
• AWAKE – As Britten starts to realize the truth behind the accident, a conspiracy threatens both of his realities.

FOX

• AMERICAN IDOL – The finalists are revealed; Lisa Marie Presley performs; Adam Lambert performs.
• TOUCH – Martin involves himself with a heist crew in an effort to win back a dock worker’s job; Martin and his wife’s sister make a decision.

ABC

• MISSING – (season finale) In a last ditch attempt to save her son, Becca faces her inner demons.
• GREY’S ANATOMY – (season finale) The place crash leaves the doctors fighting to stay alive; Richard plans a dinner for the residents.
• SCANDAL – (season finale) Olivia and the team rally when Quinn finds herself in a tragic situation.

CW

• PEREZ HILTON ALL ACCESS – Katy Perry shares a preview of her latest music video and invites Perez Hilton to join her on her tour.
• THE VAMPIRE DIARIES (repeat)

BRAVO

• DON’T BE TARDY FOR THE WEDDING – Derek J helps Kim pick out luxury port a potties; Kim invites her mother to a gown fitting.

MTV

• PUNK’D – Miley Cyrus pranks Kelly Osbourne, Khloe Kardashian and Liam Hemsworth.
• THE PAULY D SHOW – Biggie gets annoyed with Ryan for giving Pauly alcohol.

DAY TIME TALK SHOW

THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW – Russell Brand
THE VIEW – Betty White, Susan Lucci, a performance from the Broadway cast of “Once”

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS

THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) – Conan O’Brien, Regina Spektor, John Mayer
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO (NBC) – Hugh Laurie, Robert Griffin III
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE (ABC) – Matthew Morrison, Beth Ostrosky Stern, Delta Spirit
THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON (CBS) – Craig visits Glasgow & Edinburgh with Mila Kunis, the Imagineers
LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON (NBC) – Arsenio Hall, Paul Weller
LAST CALL WITH CARSON DALY (NBC) – Peter Berg, “Ballplayer: Pelotero”, Young the Giant
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART (COMEDY CENTRAL) – (repeat)
THE COLBERT REPORT (COMEDY CENTRAL) – (repeat)
CONAN – Wanda Sykes, Brooklyn Decker, Rufus Wainwright

 

1792, the New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street.
1875, the first Kentucky Derby was run at Churchill Downs in Louisville. The winner was Aristides, ridden byOliver Lewis.
1936, Actor Dennis Hopper was born today. He died in 2010.
1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of Education Of Topeka ruling. It declared that racially separated educational facilities are “inherently unequal.” The ruling reversed the high court’s 1896 “separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
1973, the Senate opened its hearings into the Watergate scandal with continuous daytime coverage shown on all three broadcast networks.
1975, NBC paid $5 million for the rights to show Gone With The Wind just one time. It was the top price paid for a single opportunity to show a film on television.
1978, Philips announced the coming of the compact disc.
1980, rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police officers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie.
1985, Bobby Ewing died on the season finale of Dallas. Bobby, played by actor Patrick Duffy, died in a violent car explosion, only to come back to life the following season.
1987, Thirty-seven American sailors were killed when an Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Starkin the Persian Gulf.
1989, A court in Frankfurt, West Germany, sentenced Mohammed Ali Hamadi to life in prison for his role in the 1985 TWA hijacking.
1990, a record price was paid for a painting sold at auction when Vincent Van Gogh’s “Portrait Of Dr. Gachet” sold for $82.5 million.
1995, Jacques Chirac was sworn in as president of France, ending the 14-year tenure of SocialistFrancois Mitterrand.
1996, President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood notification when sex offenders move in. Called Megan’s Law, it was named for Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and killed in 1994 by a convicted sex offender who lived nearby.
1998, New York Yankees pitcher David Wells became the 13th player in modern major league baseball history to throw a perfect game. Wells retired all 27 batters he faced in a 4-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium.
1999, Makah Indians in Washington state harpooned a gray whale for the first time in 70 years.
2000, two former Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four black girls. Both were eventually convicted and sentenced to life in prison.