April 7
Today is the 97th day of 2017, there are 268 days left in the year.
1788 - An expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam established a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.
1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh.
1913 - 5,000 suffragists marched to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. seeking the right to vote for women.
1927- U.S. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover's Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
1939 - Italy invaded Albania, which was annexed less than a week later.
1943 - LSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratorie in Basil, Switzerland, by Albert Hoffman.
1947 - Auto pioneer Henry Ford died in Dearborn, Michigan at age 83.
1948 - The World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations, was founded.
1949 - Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winner, "South Pacific", opened on Broadway.
1953 - The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general.
1957 - Shortly after midnight, the last of New York's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1962 - Nearly 1,200 Cuban exiles tried by Cuba for their roles in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion were convicted of treason.
1969 - The Supreme Court struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1978 - President Jimmy Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.
1984 - The Census Bureau announced Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation's second-largest city in terms of population.
1990 - Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.)
1990 - A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges.
1994 - Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286 million mile journey to the red planet.
2001 - An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots.
2003 - U.S. troops in more than 100 armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces.
2009 - Vermont became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2012 - CBS newsman Mike Wallace died in Connecticut at age 93.
2016 - "American Idol" crowned 24-year-old Trent Harmon its 15th and final winner as the influential TV show came to an end.
Birthdays
24 - Cristine Prosperi (actress)
25 - Alexis Jordan (singer)
26 - Anne-Marie (singer)
32 - KC Concepcion (singer)
37 - David Otunga (professional wrestler)
38 - Adrian Beltre (baseball player)
42 - John Cooper (singer)
42 - Tiki Barber (football player)
42 - Ronde Barber (football player)
46 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (actress)
52 - Bill Bellamy (actor)
53 - Russell Crowe (actor)
63 - Jackie Chan (actor)
79 - Jerry Brown (politician)
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Today in Sports History - April 7
1940 - Jimmy Demaret wins the Masters.
1943 - The NFL adopts the free substitution rule.
1946 - Herman Keiser wins the Masters.
1951 - Ben Hogan wins the Masters.
1955 - Fort Wayne beat Syracuse 74-71. It was the lowest scoring NBA Playoff game since the introduction of the 24-second shot clock.
1956 - The Philadelphia Warriors defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons to win the NBA championship in five games.
1957 - Doug Ford wins the Masters.
1958 - The Los Angeles Dodgers erect a 42-foot high screen in left field to cut down on home runs since it was only 250 feet down the line.
1959 - Bob Cousy (Boston Celtics) achieved 19 assists, to tie an NBA Playoff record, in a game against Minneapolis.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters and became the event's youngest winner at age 23.
1963 - Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors.
1969 - Los Angeles Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with first official save, against Cincinnati Reds.
1969 - Ted Williams makes his managerial debut with the Washington Senators.
1970 - The Milwaukee Brewers (formerly the Seattle Pilots) play their first game, losing to the California Angels 12-0.
1977 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their first major league baseball game, beating the Chicago White Sox 9-5.
1985 - New Jersey Generals' Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards.
1986 - Boston Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans becomes the first player to hit the first pitch of the first game on Opening Day for a home run.
1986 - WrestleMania 2 was held in three different locations across the country. At Nassau Coliseum in New York, Mr. T defeated "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in a boxing match. At the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, Andre the Giant won a 20-man "NFL vs. WWF" Battle Royal, and in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan defeated King Kong Bundy in a steel cage match for the WWF championship.
1995 - Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike.
2003 - The Boston Red Sox exercise Pedro Martinez's option for the 2004 season, making Martinez the highest paid pitcher for a season in major league history, at US$17.5 million.
2003 - Syracuse defeats Kansas 81-78 to win the NCAA tournament.
2008 - Kansas defeats Memphis 75-68 in overtime to win the NCAA tournament.
2013 - WrestleMania 29 was held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Alberto Del Rio defeated Jack Swagger for the World Heavyweight Championship, Triple H defeated Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker defeated CM Punk and John Cena defeated The Rock for the WWE championship.
2014 - Connecticut defeated Kentucky 60-54 to win the NCAA tournament.
Today is the 97th day of 2017, there are 268 days left in the year.
1788 - An expedition led by Gen. Rufus Putnam established a settlement at present-day Marietta, Ohio.
1862 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh.
1913 - 5,000 suffragists marched to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. seeking the right to vote for women.
1927- U.S. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover's Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
1939 - Italy invaded Albania, which was annexed less than a week later.
1943 - LSD was first produced at Sandoz Laboratorie in Basil, Switzerland, by Albert Hoffman.
1947 - Auto pioneer Henry Ford died in Dearborn, Michigan at age 83.
1948 - The World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations, was founded.
1949 - Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winner, "South Pacific", opened on Broadway.
1953 - The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general.
1957 - Shortly after midnight, the last of New York's electric trolleys completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.
1962 - Nearly 1,200 Cuban exiles tried by Cuba for their roles in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion were convicted of treason.
1969 - The Supreme Court struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1978 - President Jimmy Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.
1984 - The Census Bureau announced Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation's second-largest city in terms of population.
1990 - Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.)
1990 - A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges.
1994 - Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286 million mile journey to the red planet.
2001 - An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots.
2003 - U.S. troops in more than 100 armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces.
2009 - Vermont became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
2012 - CBS newsman Mike Wallace died in Connecticut at age 93.
2016 - "American Idol" crowned 24-year-old Trent Harmon its 15th and final winner as the influential TV show came to an end.
Birthdays
24 - Cristine Prosperi (actress)
25 - Alexis Jordan (singer)
26 - Anne-Marie (singer)
32 - KC Concepcion (singer)
37 - David Otunga (professional wrestler)
38 - Adrian Beltre (baseball player)
42 - John Cooper (singer)
42 - Tiki Barber (football player)
42 - Ronde Barber (football player)
46 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (actress)
52 - Bill Bellamy (actor)
53 - Russell Crowe (actor)
63 - Jackie Chan (actor)
79 - Jerry Brown (politician)
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Today in Sports History - April 7
1940 - Jimmy Demaret wins the Masters.
1943 - The NFL adopts the free substitution rule.
1946 - Herman Keiser wins the Masters.
1951 - Ben Hogan wins the Masters.
1955 - Fort Wayne beat Syracuse 74-71. It was the lowest scoring NBA Playoff game since the introduction of the 24-second shot clock.
1956 - The Philadelphia Warriors defeat the Fort Wayne Pistons to win the NBA championship in five games.
1957 - Doug Ford wins the Masters.
1958 - The Los Angeles Dodgers erect a 42-foot high screen in left field to cut down on home runs since it was only 250 feet down the line.
1959 - Bob Cousy (Boston Celtics) achieved 19 assists, to tie an NBA Playoff record, in a game against Minneapolis.
1963 - Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters and became the event's youngest winner at age 23.
1963 - Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors.
1969 - Los Angeles Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with first official save, against Cincinnati Reds.
1969 - Ted Williams makes his managerial debut with the Washington Senators.
1970 - The Milwaukee Brewers (formerly the Seattle Pilots) play their first game, losing to the California Angels 12-0.
1977 - The Toronto Blue Jays play their first major league baseball game, beating the Chicago White Sox 9-5.
1985 - New Jersey Generals' Hershel Walker runs for USFL record 233 yards.
1986 - Boston Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans becomes the first player to hit the first pitch of the first game on Opening Day for a home run.
1986 - WrestleMania 2 was held in three different locations across the country. At Nassau Coliseum in New York, Mr. T defeated "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in a boxing match. At the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, Andre the Giant won a 20-man "NFL vs. WWF" Battle Royal, and in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan defeated King Kong Bundy in a steel cage match for the WWF championship.
1995 - Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike.
2003 - The Boston Red Sox exercise Pedro Martinez's option for the 2004 season, making Martinez the highest paid pitcher for a season in major league history, at US$17.5 million.
2003 - Syracuse defeats Kansas 81-78 to win the NCAA tournament.
2008 - Kansas defeats Memphis 75-68 in overtime to win the NCAA tournament.
2013 - WrestleMania 29 was held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Alberto Del Rio defeated Jack Swagger for the World Heavyweight Championship, Triple H defeated Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker defeated CM Punk and John Cena defeated The Rock for the WWE championship.
2014 - Connecticut defeated Kentucky 60-54 to win the NCAA tournament.
