1900<\/strong> – British forces routed the Boers at Kroonstadt, South Africa.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong> – The first aerial ferry bridge went into operation in Duluth,\u00a0MN.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – The first exhibition baseball game was held at Fenway Park in Boston. The game was between Red Sox and Harvard.<\/p>\n 1913<\/strong> – The Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ebbets Field opened.<\/p>\n 1914<\/strong> – In London, the first full-color film, “The World, The Flesh & the Devil,” was shown.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> – The German army launched its third offensive during the Battle of Verdun.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The Battle of Arras began as Canadian troops began a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – Latvia proclaimed its independence.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – The Russo-Polish conflict ended with the signing of the Riga Treaty.<\/p>\n 1928<\/strong> – Mae West made her debut on Broadway in the production of “Diamond Lil.”<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – In the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino forces were overwhelmed by the Japanese Army.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – National Football League officials decreed that it was mandatory for football players to wear socks in all league games.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – At Bari, Italy, the\u00a0Liberty<\/i>\u00a0exploded and killed 360 people. The ship was carrying aerial bombs.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – 169 people were killed and 1,300 were injured by a series of tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – Bob Hope made his first television appearance on “Star-Spangled Review” on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The Suez Canal was cleared for all shipping.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – NASA announced the selection of America’s first seven astronauts.<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong> – Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> –\u00a0“TIME” magazine\u00a0featured a cover with the entire “Peanuts” comic gang.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – The Houston Astrodome held its first baseball game.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – The first Boeing 737 was rolled out for use.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Murdered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was buried.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and Russia agreed on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The U.S. Submarine George Washington struck and sunk a small Japanese freighter in the East China Sea. The\u00a0Nissho Maru’s<\/i>\u00a0captain and first mate died.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The space shuttle Challenger concluded its first flight.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – Nicaragua asked the World Court to declare\u00a0U.S.\u00a0support for guerilla raids illegal.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Japanese Premier Nakasone urged Japanese people to buy foreign products.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – It was announced that Patrick Duffy’s character on the TV show Dallas would be returning after being killed off.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Dikye Baggett became the first person to undergo corrective surgery for Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0imposed economic sanctions on Panama.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – 16 civilians were killed during rioting in Soviet Georgia.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Hundreds of thousands marched past the White House in support of the right to abortion.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Georgia voted to secede from the U.S.S.R.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami,\u00a0FL, of eight drug and racketeering charges.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The National Prisoner of War Museum opened in Andersonville,\u00a0GA, at the site of an infamous Civil War camp.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – More than 150 Muslims died in a stampede in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on last day of the haj pilgrimage.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh of the ruling Popular Rally for Progress and the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy was elected president.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Niger, President Ibrahim Bar\u00e9 Ma\u00efnassara was assassinated. Daouda Malam Wanke was designated president two days later.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – CBS-TV aired “Failsafe.” It was the first live full-length show to be aired by CBS in 39 years.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iraq War:\u00a0Baghdad falls\u00a0to American forces.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Charles, Prince of Wales\u00a0marries\u00a0Camilla Parker Bowles\u00a0in a civil ceremony at\u00a0Windsor’s Guildhall.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In\u00a0Tbilisi,\u00a0Georgia, up to 60,000 people\u00a0protest\u00a0against the government of\u00a0Mikheil Saakashvili.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A 6.1\u2013magnitude\u00a0earthquake\u00a0strikes\u00a0Iran\u00a0killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong> \u2013 At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a\u00a0spree shooting\u00a0in the Serbian village of\u00a0Velika Ivan\u010da.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A student\u00a0stabs\u00a020 people at\u00a0Franklin Regional High School\u00a0in\u00a0Murrysville, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Palm Sunday church bombings\u00a0at Coptic Churches in\u00a0Tanta\u00a0and\u00a0Alexandria\u00a0take place.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked\u00a0United Airlines flight, Dr. David Dao Duy Anh has forcibly dragged\u00a0off the flight by aviation security officers, leading to a major criticism of United Airlines.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 9 April 1900 – British forces routed the Boers at Kroonstadt, South Africa. 1905 – The first aerial ferry bridge went into operation in Duluth,\u00a0MN. 1912 – The first exhibition baseball game was held at Fenway Park in Boston. 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