Today in History: April 13, Tiger Woods wins first Masters by record margin

This day is Sunday April the rd day of There are days left in the year Currently in history On April -year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament in Augusta Georgia finishing a record strokes ahead of Tom Kite in second place Also on this date In Thomas Jefferson the third president of the United States was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony Related Articles Karen Read murder affair Expanded buffer zone prevails federal judge rules Trump administration says it will exclude a few electronics from reciprocal tariffs In the current era in History April Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space Trump opens window for a deal with Iran but issues warning if things don t work out Bird lands on Peter Doocy s head during live Fox News account In Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War In members of the pro-white paramilitary White League attacked Black state militia members defending a courthouse in Colfax Louisiana three white men and as a multitude of as Black men were killed in what is known as the Colfax Massacre one of the worst acts of Reconstruction-era violence In President Franklin D Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington on the th anniversary of his birth In Sidney Poitier became the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for acting in a leading role for his performance in Lilies of the Field In right-to-die advocate Dr Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac Michigan to to years in prison for second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a individual with ALS also known as Lou Gehrig s ailment Kevorkian ultimately served eight years before being paroled In a defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham Alabama and Atlanta In at his second trial music producer Phil Spector was discovered guilty by a Los Angeles jury of second-degree murder in the shooting of actor Lana Clarkson Later sentenced to years to life Spector died in prison in January In A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball slugger Barry Bonds of a single charge of obstruction of justice but failed to reach a verdict on the three counts at the heart of claims that he knowingly used steroids and human improvement hormone and lied to a grand jury about it Bonds conviction for obstruction was overturned in In the Golden State Warriors became the NBA s first -win squad by beating the Memphis Grizzlies - developing the -win record set by the Chicago Bulls in In Pentagon agents announced U S forces struck a tunnel complex of the Islamic State group in eastern Afghanistan with the GBU- B MOAB mother of all bombs the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the military In contemporary times s Birthdays Singer Al Green is Actor Ron Perlman is Singer Peabo Bryson is Bandleader-drummer Max Weinberg is Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is Golf Hall of Famer Davis Love III is Actor-comedian Caroline Rhea is Actor Rick Schroder is Actor Glenn Howerton is Actor Kelli Giddish is Singer-rapper Ty Dolla ign is Actor Allison Williams is