APRIL 13
1964:Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, taking home the Oscar statuette for his performance as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field.
1902: With business partners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, James Cash Penney opens a dry goods and clothing store called the Golden Rule, the forerunner of today's J.C. Penney department store chain, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
1986: Pope John Paul II visits the Great Synagogue in Rome, meeting with Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff in the first recorded visit of a Roman Catholic pontiff to a Jewish place of worship.
1902: With business partners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, James Cash Penney opens a dry goods and clothing store called the Golden Rule, the forerunner of today's J.C. Penney department store chain, in Kemmerer, Wyo.
1986: Pope John Paul II visits the Great Synagogue in Rome, meeting with Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff in the first recorded visit of a Roman Catholic pontiff to a Jewish place of worship.
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