1828 – First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication.
1865 – US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington.
1894 – 1st public showing of Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1902 – J.C. Penny opens his first store, The Golden Rule Store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1906 – US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces “muckrakers” in US press, taken from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.
1912 – RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. off Newfoundland.
1935 – Black Sunday: Severe sandstorm ravages the US Midwest, creating the “Dust Bowl
1944 – General Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Command of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
1945 – World War II: US 7th Army & allies forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany.
1948 – NYC subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents.
1956 – Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder.
1960 – American record company Motown, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., is incorporated as Motown Record Corporation.
1968 – 32nd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Bob Goalby shoots a final round 66 (-6) to win his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of Roberto De Vicenzo who has his card famously marked incorrectly.
1971 – Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation.
1981 – 1st Space Station, Columbia 1, returns to Earth.
1983 – US President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue.
1992 – “Guys & Dolls” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances.
1994 – US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriages issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2019 – 83rd US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Tiger Woods wins his 5th Masters title by 1 stroke from Xander Schauffele, Dustin Johnson & Brooks Koepka; Woods 15th major and first in 11 years.
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