April 1
1778 - Oliver Pollack created the dollar sign ($).
1789 - Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House of Representatives as the group held its first full meeting, convening in New York City.
1853 - Cincinnati, Ohio became the first U.S. city to pay its firefighters a regular salary.
1865 - During the Civil War, Union forces routed Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia.
1891 - The Wrigley Co. was founded in Chicago by William Wrigley, Jr.
1918 - Britain's Royal Air Force was established.
1924 - Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. (Hitler was released in December 1924; during his time behind bars, he wrote his autobiographical screed, “Mein Kampf.”)
1933 - The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses.
1945 - American forces landed on Okinawa during World War II.
1960 - Tiros I, the world's first meteorological satellite, was launched.
1963 - The daytime soap opera "General Hospital" debuted on ABC-TV.
1970 - President Richard Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television.
1975 - With Khmer Rouge guerrillas closing in, Cambodian President Lon Nol resigned and fled into exile, spending the rest of his life in the United States.
1976 - Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer.
1977 - The U.S. Senate followed the House of Representatives by adopting, 86-9, a stringent code of ethics requiring full financial disclosure and limits on outside income.
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed Iran to be an Islamic Republic.
1984 - Singer Marvin Gaye, age 44, was shot to death by his father.
1987 - In his first major speech on the epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1999 - A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 million computers worldwide.
2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges.
2003 - Pfc. Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
2004 - President George W. Bush signed the "Laci Peterson" bill, making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on the mother.
2008 - The Pentagon made public a legal memo dated March 14, 2003, that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects.
2009 - Sweden became the fifth European country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2016 - World leaders ended a nuclear security summit in Washington by declaring progress in safeguarding nuclear materials sought by terrorists and wayward nations, even as President Barack Obama acknowledged the task was far from finished.
2020 - Resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order, President Donald Trump said he wanted to give governors “flexibility” to respond to the coronavirus.
2021 - Virginia’s highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville could take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of a violent white nationalist rally in 2017.
Birthdays
25 - Asa Butterfield (actor)
27 - Logan Paul (reality star)
35 - Mackenzie Davis (actress)
36 - Hillary Scott (singer)
37 - Josh Zuckerman (actor)
39 - Matt Lanter (actor)
40 - Taran Killam (comedian/actor)
40 - Sam Huntington (actor)
42 - Randy Orton (professional wrestler)
42 - Bijou Phillips (singer)
44 - JJ Field (actor)
46 - David Oyelowo (actor)
49 - Rachel Maddow (TV host)
51 - Method Man (rapper/actor)
51 - Jessica Collins (actress)
54 - Woody Lee (singer)
60 - Jose Zuniga (actor)
61 - Susan Boyle (singer)
70 - Annette O'Toole (actress)
72 - Samuel Alito (Supreme Court Justice)
74 - Jimmy Cliff (singer)
83 - Rudolph Isley (singer)
83 - Ali MacGraw (actress)
88 - Don Hastings (actor)
111 - Fauja Singh (runner)
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Today in Sports History - April 1
1919 - The final game of the 1919 Stanley Cup was canceled due to the worldwide epidemic of influenza. No winner was declared in the series between the Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans.
1970 - A federal bankruptcy judge rules that the MLB's Seattle Pilots are bankrupt; car dealer Bud Selig buys the franchise for $10.8 million and relocates the club to Milwaukee, where they would become the Brewers.
1972 - The first Major League Baseball players’ strike began; it lasted 12 days.
1978 - Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) became the first NHL rookie to score 50 goals in a season.
1981 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers breaks the NHL single season assist record with 103.
1983 - Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.
1984 - USC defeats Tennessee 72-61 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1985 - Villanova defeats Georgetown 84-75 to win the NCAA Tournament; Villanova becomes the lowest-seeded team (No. 8) to ever win the NCAA Tournament.
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti replaces Peter Ueberroth as the 7th commissioner of Major League Baseball. (He would die of a heart attack five months later.)
1990 - Stanford defeats Auburn 88-81 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1991 - Duke defeats Kansas 72-65 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1992 - The National Hockey League Players’ Association went on its first-ever strike, which lasted 10 days.
1996 - Baseball umpire John McSherry died after collapsing during a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.
1996 - Kentucky defeats Syracuse 76-67 to win their sixth NCAA Tournament.
1999 - Joe Dumars of the Detroit Pistons becomes the 10th player in NBA history to play 1,000 games with the same team.
1999 - Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown wins his 900th professional game as a head coach. (671-547 - NBA / 229-107 ABA / 900-654 combined).
2000 - Michelle Kwan becomes the first American since Peggy Fleming to win three world figure skating championships.
2001 - Notre Dame defeats Purdue 68-66 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2002 - Maryland defeats Indiana 64-52 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2016 - The Golden State Warriors NBA record home winning streak ends at 54 games after 109-106 loss to the Boston Celtics; it was the first home loss for the Warriors since January 2015.
2017 - Two-time NBA scoring champion Tracy McGrady, Kansas coach Bill Self, former Chicago Bulls executive Jerry Krause and former UConn star Rebecca Lobo were among 11 people named to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
2018 - Notre Dame defeats Mississippi State 61-58 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2020 - The All England Lawn Tennis Club cancels Wimbledon for the first time since World War II due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 - On the opening day of the baseball season, the game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Mets was postponed after four Nationals players tested positive for COVID-19; the entire three-game series would be postponed a day later.
2021 - North Carolina said Hall of Fame basketball coach Roy Williams was retiring; the decision came two weeks after Williams closed his 18th season with the Tar Heels.
1778 - Oliver Pollack created the dollar sign ($).
1789 - Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was elected the first Speaker of the House of Representatives as the group held its first full meeting, convening in New York City.
1853 - Cincinnati, Ohio became the first U.S. city to pay its firefighters a regular salary.
1865 - During the Civil War, Union forces routed Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia.
1891 - The Wrigley Co. was founded in Chicago by William Wrigley, Jr.
1918 - Britain's Royal Air Force was established.
1924 - Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. (Hitler was released in December 1924; during his time behind bars, he wrote his autobiographical screed, “Mein Kampf.”)
1933 - The Nazi persecution of Jews began in Germany with a boycott of Jewish businesses.
1945 - American forces landed on Okinawa during World War II.
1960 - Tiros I, the world's first meteorological satellite, was launched.
1963 - The daytime soap opera "General Hospital" debuted on ABC-TV.
1970 - President Richard Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads from radio and television.
1975 - With Khmer Rouge guerrillas closing in, Cambodian President Lon Nol resigned and fled into exile, spending the rest of his life in the United States.
1976 - Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer.
1977 - The U.S. Senate followed the House of Representatives by adopting, 86-9, a stringent code of ethics requiring full financial disclosure and limits on outside income.
1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed Iran to be an Islamic Republic.
1984 - Singer Marvin Gaye, age 44, was shot to death by his father.
1987 - In his first major speech on the epidemic, President Ronald Reagan told doctors in Philadelphia, "We've declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1."
1999 - A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the "Melissa" e-mail virus, which infected more than 1 million computers worldwide.
2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges.
2003 - Pfc. Jessica Lynch was rescued by U.S. commandos in a raid on an Iraqi hospital.
2004 - President George W. Bush signed the "Laci Peterson" bill, making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on the mother.
2008 - The Pentagon made public a legal memo dated March 14, 2003, that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects.
2009 - Sweden became the fifth European country to legalize same-sex marriage.
2016 - World leaders ended a nuclear security summit in Washington by declaring progress in safeguarding nuclear materials sought by terrorists and wayward nations, even as President Barack Obama acknowledged the task was far from finished.
2020 - Resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order, President Donald Trump said he wanted to give governors “flexibility” to respond to the coronavirus.
2021 - Virginia’s highest court ruled that the city of Charlottesville could take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of a violent white nationalist rally in 2017.
Birthdays
25 - Asa Butterfield (actor)
27 - Logan Paul (reality star)
35 - Mackenzie Davis (actress)
36 - Hillary Scott (singer)
37 - Josh Zuckerman (actor)
39 - Matt Lanter (actor)
40 - Taran Killam (comedian/actor)
40 - Sam Huntington (actor)
42 - Randy Orton (professional wrestler)
42 - Bijou Phillips (singer)
44 - JJ Field (actor)
46 - David Oyelowo (actor)
49 - Rachel Maddow (TV host)
51 - Method Man (rapper/actor)
51 - Jessica Collins (actress)
54 - Woody Lee (singer)
60 - Jose Zuniga (actor)
61 - Susan Boyle (singer)
70 - Annette O'Toole (actress)
72 - Samuel Alito (Supreme Court Justice)
74 - Jimmy Cliff (singer)
83 - Rudolph Isley (singer)
83 - Ali MacGraw (actress)
88 - Don Hastings (actor)
111 - Fauja Singh (runner)
========================================
Today in Sports History - April 1
1919 - The final game of the 1919 Stanley Cup was canceled due to the worldwide epidemic of influenza. No winner was declared in the series between the Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans.
1970 - A federal bankruptcy judge rules that the MLB's Seattle Pilots are bankrupt; car dealer Bud Selig buys the franchise for $10.8 million and relocates the club to Milwaukee, where they would become the Brewers.
1972 - The first Major League Baseball players’ strike began; it lasted 12 days.
1978 - Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) became the first NHL rookie to score 50 goals in a season.
1981 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers breaks the NHL single season assist record with 103.
1983 - Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.
1984 - USC defeats Tennessee 72-61 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1985 - Villanova defeats Georgetown 84-75 to win the NCAA Tournament; Villanova becomes the lowest-seeded team (No. 8) to ever win the NCAA Tournament.
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti replaces Peter Ueberroth as the 7th commissioner of Major League Baseball. (He would die of a heart attack five months later.)
1990 - Stanford defeats Auburn 88-81 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1991 - Duke defeats Kansas 72-65 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1992 - The National Hockey League Players’ Association went on its first-ever strike, which lasted 10 days.
1996 - Baseball umpire John McSherry died after collapsing during a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.
1996 - Kentucky defeats Syracuse 76-67 to win their sixth NCAA Tournament.
1999 - Joe Dumars of the Detroit Pistons becomes the 10th player in NBA history to play 1,000 games with the same team.
1999 - Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown wins his 900th professional game as a head coach. (671-547 - NBA / 229-107 ABA / 900-654 combined).
2000 - Michelle Kwan becomes the first American since Peggy Fleming to win three world figure skating championships.
2001 - Notre Dame defeats Purdue 68-66 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2002 - Maryland defeats Indiana 64-52 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2016 - The Golden State Warriors NBA record home winning streak ends at 54 games after 109-106 loss to the Boston Celtics; it was the first home loss for the Warriors since January 2015.
2017 - Two-time NBA scoring champion Tracy McGrady, Kansas coach Bill Self, former Chicago Bulls executive Jerry Krause and former UConn star Rebecca Lobo were among 11 people named to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
2018 - Notre Dame defeats Mississippi State 61-58 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2020 - The All England Lawn Tennis Club cancels Wimbledon for the first time since World War II due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 - On the opening day of the baseball season, the game between the Washington Nationals and the New York Mets was postponed after four Nationals players tested positive for COVID-19; the entire three-game series would be postponed a day later.
2021 - North Carolina said Hall of Fame basketball coach Roy Williams was retiring; the decision came two weeks after Williams closed his 18th season with the Tar Heels.
