In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.
On April 10, 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.In 1963, the fast-attack nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank during deep-diving tests east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in a disaster that claimed 129 lives.2005: Tiger WoodsMatt SlocumIn 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczynski , 60, was killed in a plane crash in western Russia that also claimed the lives of his wife and top Polish political, military and church officials.
Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.Alabama Republican Gov. Robert Bentley resigned rather than face impeachment and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations that arose during an investigation of his alleged affair with a top aide.In 2020, on Good Friday, Pope Francis presided over a torch-lit procession in St. Peter’s Square, which was otherwise empty because of the coronavirus; nurses and doctors were among those holding a cross.
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