Historical Events
1923 - Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
1926 - At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
1992 - Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1997 - 48th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes
1997 - Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets and Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY
2008 - 72nd Golf Masters Championship: Trevor Immelman wins, shooting a 280
Famous Birthdays
1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
1847 - Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)
1900 - Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1926 - John Spencer-Churchill, 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner
1972 - Jeroen Thesseling, pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)
1980 - Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
Famous Deaths
1942 - Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
1994 - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
1997 - Ann Craft, researcher/writer, dies at 53
2009 - Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)
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