TIME TRAVELING, APRIL 8 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain. 1913 The 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, requiring direct election of senators. 1935 The Works Progress Administration (WPA) is approved by the U.S. Congress, providing nearly 3.5 million public jobs for the unemployed. 1946 The League of Nations assembles in Geneva for the last time. 1953 The bones of Hunkpapa Lakota holy man Sitting Bull, who was assassinated on December 15, 1890, in Grand River, N.D., are moved from North Dakota to South Dakota, where he was born in 1831. 1974 Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruths legendary record of 714 homers. 1975 Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians becomes the first black manager of a major league baseball team. 1981 General of the Army Omar Bradley, first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and commander of the 12th Army Group who ensured Allied victory over Germany in World War II, dies at age 88. 1986 Actor Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of Carmel, Calif. 1988 Former President Ronald Reagan aide Lyn Nofzinger is sentenced to prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp. 1994 Smoking is banned in the Pentagon and on all U.S. military bases. 1998 The widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. presents new evidence in an appeal for a new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband. 2000 Nineteen U.S. troops are killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashes during a training mission in Arizona. 2013 Margaret Thatcher, the first – and so far, only – female prime minister of the United Kingdom, dies in London at age 87 from a stroke. Serving from 1979 to 1990, she was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.
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