Today In History

Sat., April 8, 2000

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

In 1935: The Works Progress Administration was approved by Congress.

In 1974: Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record. He went on to hit 755.

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

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

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