April 9 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for April 9
In the headlines today:

1992	Former Panamanian president Manuel Noriega is convicted in a Miami court of drug and racketeering charges.
1965	The first baseball game is played in the recently completed Astrodome in Houston, TX.
1959	Architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies.
1945	An explosion of a US liberty ship kills 360 people at Bari, Italy.
1941	Greenland becomes a US protectorate.
1869	The American Museum of Natural History opens in New York City.
1865	Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, VA, ending the Civil War.
1833	The first free public library in the US is established in Peterborough, NH.
1682	LaSalle claims the Mississippi valley for France.
1626	Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher-statesman, dies.
1483	King Edward IV of England dies.