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1962Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1917[OS Apr 4] Lenin issues his radical April Theses calling for Soviets to take power during Russian Revolution
1854Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa" premieres
199556th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Ray Floyd wins
2008Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States
1789George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1989Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
1705Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge
1993Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against police officer who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
1953British royal yacht Britannia launched by Queen Elizabeth II
1918Spike Milligan, India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
1952Bill Belichick, Nashville Tennessee, American football coach (New England Patriots, 3 Super Bowls)
1965Martin Lawrence, comedian (Martin)
1927Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger], Marktl, Bavaria, Germany, Catholic Pope (2005-2013)
1867Wilbur Wright, Millville Indiana, American aviator (Wright Brothers)
1947Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [Lew Alcindor], New York City New York, NBA center (Mil Bucks, LA Lakers)
1966Actor and comedian Michael Palin (22) weds Helen Gibbins
1994Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodare (30) at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana
1958Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1850Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies at 88
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