Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 3rd U.S. President
- 1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, the Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
- 1916 - The first hybrid, seed corn was purchased for 15-cents a bushel by Samuel Ramsay.
- 1959 - A Vatican edict prohibited Roman Catholics from voting for Communists.
- 1970 - An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing.
- 1984 - U.S. President Reagan sent emergency military aid to El Salvador without congressional approval.
- 1999 - Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk's assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes" in 1998.
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