Today in History - History - April 9th

197951st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win

1950Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance

1768John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies

1925Babe Ruth rushed to hospital

196234th Academy Awards - "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell win

1987For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points (1 goal, 6 assists) in a Stanley Cup game and passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ

198456th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley MacLaine win

193Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).

200670th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 281

19651st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun

1336Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror and founder of the Timurid Dynasty (d. 1405)

1990Kristen Stewart, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)

1898[Earl] Curly Lambeau, Green Bay Wisconsin, NFL coach (GB Packers)

1957Severiano Ballesteros, Pedrena Spain, golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88)

1953Biologist Alexander Fleming (34) weds doctor Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas (41)

1912Detective writer Erle Stanley Gardner (22) weds Natalie Talbert

1981NFL coach Bill Cowher (23) weds Kaye Young

1964Serial killer John Wayne Gacy (22) weds co-worker Marlynn Myers

1913US Admiral Chester Nimitz (28) weds Catherine Freeman (21) in Wollaston, Massachusetts

2005His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles

1626Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65

1959Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89