Today in History: April 13, Tiger Woods wins first Masters by record margin
Today is Sunday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2025. There are 262 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On April 13, 1997, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, finishing a record 12 strokes ahead of Tom Kite in second place.
Also on this date:
In 1743, Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.
In 1861, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War.
In 1873, members of the pro-white, paramilitary White League attacked Black state militia members defending a courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana; three white men and as many as 150 Black men were killed in what is known as the Colfax Massacre, one of the worst acts of Reconstruction-era violence.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
In 1964, 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 1999, right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a patient with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. (Kevorkian ultimately served eight years before being paroled.)
In 2005, a defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta.
In 2009, at his second trial, music producer Phil Spector was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of...