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Events
- 1861 - American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
- 1873 - Colfax Massacre.
- 1902 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
- 1943 - James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in an Alcatraz escape attempt.
- 1943 - The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC, on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
- 1953 - CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind controle program MKULTRA.
- 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew into deadly peril.
- 1974 - Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the USA's first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
- 1983 - Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history.
- 1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win golf's Masters Tournament.
