April 4
1818 - Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
1841 - President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, just one month after his inauguration.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by his son Tad, visited the vanquished Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, where he was greeted by a crowd that included former slaves.
1905 - An earthquake in Kangra, India killed more than 20,000.
1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 82-6 in favor of declaring war against Germany (the House followed suit two days later by a vote of 373-50).
1945 - The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
1949 - The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
1968 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; his slaying was followed by a wave of rioting (Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Chicago were among cities particularly hard hit). James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming he’d been the victim of a setup.
1973 - A ribbon cutting ceremony was held to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
1975 - More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.
1975 - Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1979 - Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
1981 - Henry Cisneros became mayor of San Antonio, Texas; the first Hispanic mayor of a major American city.
1983 - Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1991 - Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and six other people, including two children, were killed when a helicopter collided with Heinz’s plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pennsylvania.
2011 - Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up on trying avowed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators in civilian federal courts and said it would prosecute them instead before military commissions.
2015 - In North Charleston, South Carolina, Walter Scott, a 50-year-old Black motorist, was shot to death while running away from a traffic stop; Officer Michael Thomas Slager, seen in a cellphone video opening fire at Scott, was charged with murder. (The charge, which lingered after a first state trial ended in a mistrial, was dropped as part of a deal under which Slager pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
2018 - Facebook revealed that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in a privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a Trump-affiliated data mining firm.
2018 - After the United States said it would impose 25 percent duties on $50 billion of imports from China, Beijing quickly retaliated by listing $50 billion of products it could hit with its own 25 percent tariffs.
2022 - The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor (It would later pass out of committee and she would be confirmed by the Senate three days later.)
Birthdays
27 - Austin Mahone (singer)
31 - Alexa Nikolas (actress)
32 - Jessica Serfaty (model)
32 - Jamie Lynn Spears (actress/singer)
40 - Eric Andre (actor)
44 - Natasha Lyonne (actress)
46 - Stephen Mulhern (TV host)
50 - Kelly Price (singer)
50 - David Blaine (magician)
51 - Lisa Ray (model)
51 - Jill Scott (singer)
58 - Robert Downey Jr. (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 4
1921 - The Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires in the 1921 Stanley Cup Finals. The Senators became the first NHL team to win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles.
1974 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th round-tripper in Cincinnati.
1983 - North Carolina State defeats Houston 54-52 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky set an NHL record with his 213th point of the season.
1987 - Denis Potvin (New York Islanders) became the first defenseman in NHL history to score 1,000 career points. His career total was 1,052.
1988 - Kansas defeats Oklahoma 83-79 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played his final NBA game.
1993 - Texas Tech defeats Ohio State 84-82 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1993 - WrestleMania IX is held in Las Vegas; the main event saw Yokozuna defeat Bret Hart for the WWF championship, who then lost the championship immediately to Hulk Hogan.
1994 - Arkansas defeats Duke 76-72 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1996 - Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls) became the fourth player in NBA history to reach 2,000 career steals.
1998 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) became the second National League player to hit a home run in the first four games of a season. Willie Mays (San Francisco) had hit home runs in the first four games of the 1971 season.
1999 - The Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres played the first major league season opener to be held in Mexico. The Rockies beat the Padres 8-2. The game was also the first season opener to be held in a country other than the United States or Canada.
2005 - North Carolina defeats Illinois 75-70 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2006 - Maryland defeats Duke 78-75 in overtime to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2011 - Connecticut defeats Butler 53-41 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2016 - Villanova defeats North Carolina 77-74 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2021 - Stanford defeats Arizona 54-53 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2022 - Kansas defeated North Carolina to win the NCAA Tournament.
1818 - Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
1841 - President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, just one month after his inauguration.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln, accompanied by his son Tad, visited the vanquished Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, where he was greeted by a crowd that included former slaves.
1905 - An earthquake in Kangra, India killed more than 20,000.
1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 82-6 in favor of declaring war against Germany (the House followed suit two days later by a vote of 373-50).
1945 - The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
1949 - The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
1968 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; his slaying was followed by a wave of rioting (Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Chicago were among cities particularly hard hit). James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming he’d been the victim of a setup.
1973 - A ribbon cutting ceremony was held to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
1975 - More than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.
1975 - Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1979 - Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
1981 - Henry Cisneros became mayor of San Antonio, Texas; the first Hispanic mayor of a major American city.
1983 - Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1991 - Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and six other people, including two children, were killed when a helicopter collided with Heinz’s plane over a schoolyard in Merion, Pennsylvania.
2011 - Yielding to political opposition, the Obama administration gave up on trying avowed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators in civilian federal courts and said it would prosecute them instead before military commissions.
2015 - In North Charleston, South Carolina, Walter Scott, a 50-year-old Black motorist, was shot to death while running away from a traffic stop; Officer Michael Thomas Slager, seen in a cellphone video opening fire at Scott, was charged with murder. (The charge, which lingered after a first state trial ended in a mistrial, was dropped as part of a deal under which Slager pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
2018 - Facebook revealed that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in a privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a Trump-affiliated data mining firm.
2018 - After the United States said it would impose 25 percent duties on $50 billion of imports from China, Beijing quickly retaliated by listing $50 billion of products it could hit with its own 25 percent tariffs.
2022 - The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor (It would later pass out of committee and she would be confirmed by the Senate three days later.)
Birthdays
27 - Austin Mahone (singer)
31 - Alexa Nikolas (actress)
32 - Jessica Serfaty (model)
32 - Jamie Lynn Spears (actress/singer)
40 - Eric Andre (actor)
44 - Natasha Lyonne (actress)
46 - Stephen Mulhern (TV host)
50 - Kelly Price (singer)
50 - David Blaine (magician)
51 - Lisa Ray (model)
51 - Jill Scott (singer)
58 - Robert Downey Jr. (actor)
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Today in Sports History - April 4
1921 - The Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires in the 1921 Stanley Cup Finals. The Senators became the first NHL team to win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles.
1974 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th round-tripper in Cincinnati.
1983 - North Carolina State defeats Houston 54-52 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1986 - Wayne Gretzky set an NHL record with his 213th point of the season.
1987 - Denis Potvin (New York Islanders) became the first defenseman in NHL history to score 1,000 career points. His career total was 1,052.
1988 - Kansas defeats Oklahoma 83-79 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1989 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played his final NBA game.
1993 - Texas Tech defeats Ohio State 84-82 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1993 - WrestleMania IX is held in Las Vegas; the main event saw Yokozuna defeat Bret Hart for the WWF championship, who then lost the championship immediately to Hulk Hogan.
1994 - Arkansas defeats Duke 76-72 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1996 - Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls) became the fourth player in NBA history to reach 2,000 career steals.
1998 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis Cardinals) became the second National League player to hit a home run in the first four games of a season. Willie Mays (San Francisco) had hit home runs in the first four games of the 1971 season.
1999 - The Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres played the first major league season opener to be held in Mexico. The Rockies beat the Padres 8-2. The game was also the first season opener to be held in a country other than the United States or Canada.
2005 - North Carolina defeats Illinois 75-70 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2006 - Maryland defeats Duke 78-75 in overtime to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2011 - Connecticut defeats Butler 53-41 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2016 - Villanova defeats North Carolina 77-74 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2021 - Stanford defeats Arizona 54-53 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2022 - Kansas defeated North Carolina to win the NCAA Tournament.
