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1 of 5 | Tiger Woods tries on his Green Jacket after winning the 2019 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., on April 14, 2019. On April 13, 1997, Woods, 21, won his first Masters, the youngest golfer to accomplish that feat.
File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo April 13 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1742, George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" made its world premiere. In 1873, a mob of former Confederate soldiers and Ku Klux Klan members killed dozens of Black militia men occupying the Grant Parish, La., courthouse after a contested gubernatorial election.
The deadly confrontation came to be known as the Colfax massacre. In 1932, Democrats at a Jefferson Day luncheon accused the Hoover administration of wrecking the economy, plunging millions into misery and engulfing the government in debt due to extravagance. In 1943, the Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
In 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black American to win an Oscar for...
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