April 16-1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada. 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0. 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become the most trusted man in America. 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. 1990 – The Doctor of Death, Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide. Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.)
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