1731
\nRobert Jenkins’s ear was cut off, sparking the War of Jenkins\u2019s Ear between Spain and England.<\/p>\n
1865
\nGen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.<\/p>\n
1914
\nThe first full-color film, The World, The Flesh and the Devil, was shown in London.<\/p>\n
1939
\nContralto Marian Anderson, after being denied performing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., gave a concert at the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n
1942
\nAmerican and Philippine troops on Bataan were overwhelmed by Japanese forces during World War II. The “Bataan Death March” began soon after.<\/p>\n
1959
\nNASA announced the selection of America\u2019s first astronauts, including Alan Shepard and John Glenn.<\/p>\n
1963
\nWinston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n
1992
\nFormer Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted of drug and racketeering charges.<\/p>\n
2003
\nAmerican Marines pulled down Saddam Hussein\u2019s statue in Baghdad after U.S. commanders declared his rule ended.<\/p>\n
2005
\nBritain’s Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles.<\/p>\n
April 9
\nPaul Robeson
\nPronunciation: [rOb\u00b4sun]\n1898\u20131976, American actor and bass singer, born in Princeton, N.J.<\/p>\n
The son of a runaway slave who became a minister, Robeson graduated first from Rutgers (1919), where he was an All-American football player, and then from Columbia Univ. law school (1923).<\/p>\n
Charles Baudelaire
\npoet (1821)<\/p>\n
Eadweard Muybridge
\nphotographer (1830)<\/p>\n
J. William Fulbright
\nsenator (1905)<\/p>\n
Jean-Paul Belmondo
\nactor (1933)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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