Today in History - History - April 8th

1941Joe Louis TKOs Tony Musto in 9 for heavyweight boxing title

1500Battle at Novara: King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza

196335th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win

1994Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic

1995Oliver McCall beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1943U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.

2014Mike Babcock wins his 414th career game as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, becoming the winningest coach in Red Wings history (passing Jack Adams)

1455Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III

1966AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner

1968Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000

1918Betty [Bloomer] Ford, US 1st lady (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic (d. 2011)

1886Jim Barnes, Lelant Cornwall, English golfing pioneer (4 major wins)

1966Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Tx, actress (Santa Barbara, Princess Bride)

1948Robert Alan Litchfield, Mass, bank robber (FBI most wanted in the 1980s)

1907Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (24) weds Bess Fosburgh in Boston, Massachusetts

1779US Defector General Benedict Arnold (38) weds Peggy Shippen (18) at Shippen's townhouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1947Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83

217Caracalla, Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29

2000Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)

2013Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister (1979 - 1990) dies aged 87