1952:Patty Berg shoots a 64—six under the men’s par for the course—setting a record for the best round of competitive golf played by a woman, at the Richmond Country Club in California. Berg was an early women’s golf pioneer, having won the first U.S. Women’s Open in 1946 and help found the Ladies Professional Golf Association.
1865: John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate-sympathizing actor who had assassinated President Abraham Lincoln 12 days earlier, is shot to death by Union Sgt. Boston Corbett in a barn on Richard Garrett’s farm near Bowling Green, Va. He was 26.
2000: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signs the nation’s first law allowing civil unions between same-sex couples.
1865: John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate-sympathizing actor who had assassinated President Abraham Lincoln 12 days earlier, is shot to death by Union Sgt. Boston Corbett in a barn on Richard Garrett’s farm near Bowling Green, Va. He was 26.
2000: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signs the nation’s first law allowing civil unions between same-sex couples.
1467:The miraculous image of Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in Genazzano, Italy.
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