This Day In History
- 1759 Composer George Frideric Handel died in London.
- 1775 The first American society for the abolition of slavery was organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
- 1828 The first edition of Noah Webster's ''American Dictionary of the English Language'' was published.
- 1902 J.C. Penney opened his first store, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
- 1912 The British liner Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and began to sink.
- 1931 King Alfonso XIII of Spain went into exile and the Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
- 1939 ''The Grapes of Wrath'' by John Steinbeck was published.
- 1956 Ampex Corp. demonstrated its first commercial videotape recorder.
- 1981 America's first operational space shuttle, Columbia, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after its first test flight.
- 1997 Whitewater figure James McDougal drew a three-year prison sentence for 18 felony fraud and conspiracy counts.
- 1999 NATO mistakenly bombed a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees; Yugoslav officials said 75 people were killed.
- 2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being ousted and arrested by his country's military.
- 2002 Tiger Woods became only the third player to win back-to-back Masters titles.
- 2003 Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit fell with unexpectedly light resistance, the last Iraqi city to succumb to overpowering U.S.-led ground and air forces.
- 2003 U.S. commandos in Baghdad captured Abul Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner "Achille Lauro" in 1985.
- 1866 Anne Sullivan (Macy) ("The Miracle Worker": famous for teaching the blind and deaf Helen Keller to read, write and speak; died Oct 20, 1936)
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