Today In History

Tue., April 13, 1999

In 1958: Van Cliburn became the first American to win the Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow.

In 1970: Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst.

In 1986: Pope John Paul II visited a Rome synagogue in the first recorded papal visit of its kind.

In 1992: The Great Chicago Flood took place as the city’s century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements filled with water from the Chicago River.

In 1997: Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament and the first player of at least partly African heritage to claim a major golf title.

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