It has been quite some time since I posted in this group. I apologize for any of you who have missed the activity.

Here is what happened today, April 8th, in history.

1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.

1789 The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting.

1834 Cornelius Lawrence became the first mayor to be elected by popular vote in a city election (New York City).

1913 The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators.

1939 Italy invaded Albania.

1946 The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time.

1952 U.S. President Truman seized the steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.

1969 The first artificial heart was implanted into a human.

1974 Hank Aaron hits his 715th homerun breaking Babe Ruth's record.

1975 Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians became the first black manager of a major league baseball team.

1986 Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California.

1998 The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an appeal for new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband.

2000 19 U.S. troops were killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed during a training mission in Arizona.

2000 Ed McMahon filed a $20 million lawsuit against his insurance company, two insurance adjusters, and several environmental cleanup contractors. The suit alleged breach of contract, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning a toxic mold that had spread through McMahon's Beverly Hills home.

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