1865 – Raleigh, North Carolina, captured by Union forces.
1911 – The US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of senators to Congress, a step towards direct democracy.
1926 – At 38, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout.
1934 – 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments.
1942 – 9th Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club: Byron Nelson wins an 18-hole playoff by 1 stroke over runner-up Ben Hogan.
1945 – WWII: US Marines conquer Minna Shimia off Okinawa, Japan.
1954 – Robert Oppenheimer, physicist and father of the Atomic Bomb, accused of being a communist.
1957 – Saturday postal delivery in the US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds.
1962 – US steel industry forced to give up price increases.
1986 – Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s.
1970 – 5th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Tammy Wynette win.
1970 – Apollo 13 announces “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here”, as a Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to the Moon.
1972 – 1st baseball players’ strike ends after 13 days.
1980 – US and its allies boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest against Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan.
1984 – Pete Rose becomes 1st NL player to get 4,000 hits in a career.
1992 – American Airlines reduced its 1st-class fares 20% to 50%.
2003 – 67th Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club: Mike Weir wins his only major title in a 1-hole playoff over Len Mattiace; only Canadian to win a major and first left-handed Masters champion.
2019 – BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV shows “Saturday Night Live”
2021 – US, South Africa and the EU authorities temporarily stop administrating Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines after 6 women develop blood clots (out of 6.8 million)
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