2001: Good Friday
2007: Full Pink Moon
2001: Palm Sunday
2001: First full day of Passover
Died 1024: Pope Benedict VIII
1105: Great Britain's King Henry I was reprimanded for his long hair
Born 1794: Theobald Boehm (inventor and musician, who perfected the modern flute)
Born 1830: Eadweard Muybridge (photographer, motion picture pioneer)
1833: First tax-supported U.S. public library founded, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1865: Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending U.S. Civil War
1882: Jumbo the circus elephant arrived in the U.S.
1905: Aerial Ferry Bridge opened in Duluth, Minnesota
1912: The Boston Red Sox played Harvard University in the first official baseball game at Fenway Park. (The Sox won 2-0.)
Born 1926: Hugh Hefner (editor & publisher)
Born 1932: Carl Perkins (musician)
Born 1954: Dennis Quaid (actor)
Born 1957: Seve Ballesteros (golfer)
1959: NASA introduced first seven astronauts to press
Died 1959: Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
1959: The Boston Celtics became the first NBA team to sweep an NBA championship series
1962: Golfer Arnold Palmer won his third Masters Tournament
1963: Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen
1965: First baseball game in indoor stadium, Houston, Texas
Born 1966: Cynthia Nixon (actress)
Born 1979: Keshia Knight Pulliam (actress)
Born 1987: Jesse McCartney (actor & singer)
Born 1990: Kristen Stewart (actress)
Born 1998: Elle Fanning (actress)
Died 2004: Harry Babbitt (sang with the Kay Kyser big band on such hits as "The White Cliffs of Dover" and voiced the laugh of Woody Woodpecker)
2005: Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles



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