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Events

• Brigham Young, the Mormon Church leader, married his 27th and last wife– 1868
• Snow-melting apparatus patented– 1869
• Vancouver, British Columbia, was incorporated– 1886
• The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece– 1896
• Admiral Robert Peary and his African-American assistant Matthew Henson reached what was believed to be the North Pole– 1909
• The U.S. declared war on Germany (WW I)– 1917
• Bakery manager, Jimmy Dewar, invented a cream filled sponge cake, now known as the Twinkie– 1930
• The first Tony Awards were presented at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday– 1947
• Paramount Pictures signed Elvis Presley to a three-movie contract just five days after his first screen test– 1956
• Intelsat-1 (nicknamed Early Bird), the world’s first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral) in Florida– 1965
• Microsoft released Windows 3.1– 1992
• UConn’s women’s basketball team completed a championship sweep for the school by beating Tennessee 70-61 for the NCAA women’s title. The victory followed UConn’s win over Georgia Tech in the men’s championship game the previous night, making Connecticut the first Division I school to sweep both titles– 2004
• A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck central Italy– 2009