1818 – Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars.
1841 – Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison.
1850 – City of Los Angeles incorporated.
1902 – Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with$10 million.
1911 – Hugh Chambers, automaker, suggest idea of baseball MVP.
1917 – US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I.
1937 – 4th Masters Golf Tournament: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283.
1945 – US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.
1948 – 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie.
1960 – 32nd Academy Awards: “Ben-Hur”, Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win.
1964 – Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” single goes #1 & stays for 5 weeks.
1968 – US civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
1971 – “Follies” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 524 performances.
1974 – Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th.
1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
1983 – 45th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52.
1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1997 – Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs.
2011 – 73rd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Butler 53-41.
2014 – President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years.
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