Today In History For April 8th
Today is Friday, April 8, the 98th day of 2011. There are 267 days left in the year.
In 1913, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for direct popular election of United States senators (as opposed to appointment by state legislatures), was ratified.
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.
In 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career
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