On This Date By The Associated Press 1850 The city of San Francisco was incorporated. 1861 President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. 1865 President Abraham Lincoln died nine hours after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theater in Washington. Andrew Johnson became the 17th president. 1945 British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. 1947 Jackie Robinson became baseballs first black major league player when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1980 Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris at age 74. 1986 The United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya said 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed. 1989 Students in Beijing launched pro-democracy protests upon the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang. 1998 Pol Pot, leader of the Camobodias brutal Khmer Rouge regime, died at age 73. 2000 Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles became the 24th major league player to reach 3,000 hits. 2002 Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White died at age 84.
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