Today In History

Wed., April 8, 1998

In 1513: Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.

In 1946: The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.

In 1973: Artist Pablo Picasso died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91.

In 1990: Ryan White, the teenage AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national attention, died in Indianapolis at age 18.

In 1992: Tennis great Arthur Ashe announced at a New York City news conference that he had AIDS. Ashe died in February 1993, at age 49, of AIDS-related pneumonia.

In 1994: Kurt Cobain, singer-musician for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27.

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