1789 – George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration.
1818 – Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1917 – 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy in 2:28:37.2.
1922 – Annie Oakley sets women’s record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row.
1929 – NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers.
1935 – 1st radio broadcast of “Fibber McGee & Molly”
1940 – Cleveland Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chicago, 1-0.
1945 – US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany.
1962 – Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News.
1972 – Two giant pandas arrive in US from China.
1980 – Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis.
1983 – Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games.
1987 – Michael Jordan becomes the second NBA player in history to score 3000 points in a season.
1993 – Jury reaches guilty verdict in federal cases against police officers (two convicted, two acquitted) who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th.
1995 – PGA Seniors’ Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Raymond Floyd wins by 5 strokes from fellow Americans John Paul Cain, Larry Gilbert and Lee Trevino.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history: The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2008 – Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States.
2019 – Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson becomes the highest-paid player in NFL history with a 4-year extension including record $65m signing bonus.
2020 – 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment in 4 weeks (5.2million in the last week, wiping out 9 1/2 years of job gains).
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