1859 – Bryant’s Minstrels debut “Dixie” in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show
1870 – Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1912 – Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields in Siberia
1932 – George Bernard Shaw’s comedy play “Too True To Be Good” premieres in NYC; runs for 59 performances
1968 – US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee
1994 – 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
1994 – 56th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Arkansas beats Duke, 76-72; Razorbacks’ first title in first title game
1999 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Graham Marsh of Australia wins his second Champions Tour major by 3 strokes from Larry Nelson
2013 – 9 people have been killed on an axe-murdering rampage in Chhattisgarh state, India
2019 – US Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pledges to roll back anti-LGBT policies, including not baptizing children of gay parents