Today in History for 15th April 2014

Historical Events

1954 - Orioles 1st game in Baltimore beat White Sox 3-1

1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery

1962 - US national debt above $300,000,000,000

1979 - 43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280

1984 - 48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277

2012 - China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar

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Famous Birthdays

1896 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)

1898 - Marian Jordan, actress, radio comedienne (Molly-Fibber McGee and Molly)

1912 - Kim II Sung, Eternal President ("The Great Leader") of North Korea (1945-94)

1947 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)

1950 - Amy Wright, Chicago Illinois, actress (Inside Moves, Accidental Tourist)

1963 - Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman and opening bowler)

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Famous Deaths

1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56

1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)

1975 - Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65

1993 - John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)

2008 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (b. 1945)

2010 - Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939)

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