Today in History - History - April 13th

1997NHL Pitts Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game

1984Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career

1943FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial

199761st Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par)

1742George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" performed for the 1st time at New Music Hall in Dublin

1962Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record

1896John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston,

1954Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game

1993Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" premieres in London

1986Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic

1906Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969)

1939Seamus Heaney, poet, (d. 2013)

1866Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)

1570Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)

1976Jonathan Brandis, Danbury Ct, actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV)

1743Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, (D-R) 3rd President of the United States (1801-09) (d. 1826)

1941Annie Jump Cannon, US astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues), dies at 77

2006Muriel Spark, Scottish author, dies at 88