Historical Events
1862 – Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee
1872 – Dominion Lands Act passed: Canada’s Homestead Act
1910 – Pan American Union forms
1991 – 55th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Welshman Ian Woosnam wins his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of José María Olazábal; 4th straight year the Masters champion is from the UK
2013 – 33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru
Famous Birthdays
1897 – Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress (Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children), born in Aleksandropol, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1980)
1907 – Otto Frans Antoine Hubert van Nispen, Dutch mayor (Pannerden), born in Pannerden, Netherlands (d. 1992)
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa, born in Lepa, Samoa
1949 – John Shea, American actor (Honeymoon, New Life, Lois and Clark), born in North Conway, New Hampshire
1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli composer (Variations Without A Theme; Dialogues of Love), conductor, and educator, born in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Famous Deaths
1910 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian Symbolist painter, one of the first modern Russian artists (The Demon Cast Down), dies from the effects of syphilis at 54
1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish physician and linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
1965 – Perry Edward Smith, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged at 36
1986 – Horst Bastian, German writer and screenwriter, dies at 46
2008 – Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (Seven Days Of Falling), dies in scuba diving accident at 44
