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In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing.

In 1985, Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, became the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off.

In 1992, after five years in the making, Euro Disneyland (now called Disneyland Paris) opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France, amid controversy as French intellectuals bemoaned the invasion of American pop culture.

In 2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped back into presidential politics, announcing in a video her much-awaited second campaign for the White House.

Five years ago: The United States and China struck what appeared to be an unusual bargain as President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t label China a currency manipulator and voiced confidence Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) would help him deal with North Korea’s mounting threat.

Police clashed with protesters for a second night in the Minneapolis suburb where an officer had fatally shot a Black man, 20-year-old Daunte Wright, during a traffic stop. 

1964 — Arnold Palmer wins the Masters for the fourth time and comes within the course record by two strokes with a 274.

1987 — Larry Mize hits a 48-foot chip shot to defeat Greg Norman on the second hole of sudden death at the Masters.

1992 — Fred Couples wins the Masters by two strokes to end a string of four consecutive British victories. Couples beats Ray Floyd, who was attempting to become the oldest player to win a major at age 49.

2007 — Kobe Bryant records his ninth 50-point performance of the season as the Los Angeles Lakers drop a 118-110 decision to the L.A. Clippers. Bryant’s 50-point efforts are the most in a season since Wilt Chamberlain also had nine during the 1964-65 season playing with Philadelphia and San Francisco.

2009 — Angel Cabrera becomes the first Argentine to win the Masters, beating 48-year-old Kenny Perry with a two-putt par on the second hole of a playoff.

2013 — Guan Tianlang, a 14-year-old from China, makes history as the youngest player to make the cut in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. Despite being the first player at Augusta National to get hit with a one-shot penalty for slow play, Guan makes the cut under the 10-shot rule at the Masters.

2015 — Jordan Spieth romps to his first major championship with a record-tying performance at the Masters, shooting an 18-under 270 to become the first wire-to-wire winner of the green jacket since 1976. Spieth is the first Masters champion to lead after every round since Raymond Floyd 39 years ago.

Azucena Uranga, member of the women's polo team from Argentina, tests a horse the day before the start the first Women's Polo World Championship in Pilar, Argentina, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Ines Lalor, from Ireland, prepares to hit a ball during a match against England at the Women's Polo World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Houston Astros catcher Martin Maldonado, right, tags out Los Angeles Angels' Tyler Wade for a double play, on a fly ball out by Mike Trout, during the third inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)

Tony Arbolino, of Italy, celebrates after winning the Moto2 Grand Prix of the Americas motorcycle race at the Circuit of the Americas, Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Enea Bastianini (23), of Italy, celebrates with his team as he wins the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas motorcycle race at the Circuit of the Americas, Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Jaume Masia, of Spain, celebrates his win in the Moto3 Grand Prix of the Americas motorcycle race at the Circuit of the Americas, Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Masia won the race. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Spectators watch the trophy presentation at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco holds his trophy after winning the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, arrives to speak at an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 8, 2022, celebrating the confirmation of Jackson as the first Black woman to reach the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

A Pataxo Indigenous woman smokes a traditional pipe during a ceremony called the Meeting of the First Peoples at the 18th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, April 8, 2022. The 10-day event aims to show the unity of Brazil's Indigenous peoples in their fight for the demarcation of their lands and their rights. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A racegoers receives comfort from a friend during the third race on Ladies' Day at Aintree Racecourse Liverpool, England, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Former tennis player Boris Becker walks outside Southwark Crown Court, in London, Friday, April 8, 2022. Becker is on trial in London for allegedly concealing property — including nine trophies — from bankruptcy trustees and dodging his obligation to disclose financial information to settle his debts. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Noble Yeats ridden by Sam Waley-Cohen at centre, clears the water jump on the way to winning Grand National horse race at Aintree, Liverpool, England, Saturday, April 9, 2022. The iconic Grand National race which is run over fences is 4 miles, 2 ½ furlongs has its origins in the 1839 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase .(AP Photo/Jon Super)

Jessie Buckley, left, winner of the Best Actress in a Musical and Eddie Redmayne, winner of the Best Actor in a musical, both for "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club", pose for photogrqphers in the winners Room at The Olivier Awards 2022, in London, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Brentford's Yoane Wissa, left, battles for the ball with West Ham's goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski during the English Premier League soccer match between Brentford and West Ham United at the Brentford Community Stadium in London, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Andreja Klepac, left, and Magda Linette hold up their trophies after winning the doubles title against Lucie Hradecka and Sania Mirza in finals action at the Charleston Open tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Chinese director Zhang Yimou leaves after a commendation ceremony for role models of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics held at the Great Hall of the People , Friday, April 8, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Counter narcotics police burn a lab to make coca base, an intermediate product of the transformation process from coca leaves to cocaine, in Orito, Putumayo state, Colombia, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Cuban cowboys compete in a steer wrestling event at the Boyeros Cattlemen's fair rodeo during the International Agricultural Fair Fiagrop 2022 in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 8, 2022. The rodeo in Cuba is a tradition over two centuries old. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Supporters of French far-right candidate Eric Zemmour react as preliminary results of the first round of the presidential election are announced in Paris, France, Sunday, April 10, 2022. Up to 48 million French voters headed to polling stations nationwide Sunday for the first round of the country's presidential election, one that seemed for months like a shoo-in for French President Emmanuel Macron but is now a tossup amid a strong challenge from the far right's Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Current French President and centrist presidential candidate for reelection Emmanuel Macron puts his hands on his heart at his election night headquarters Sunday, April 10, 2022 in Paris. French polling agencies projected Sunday that incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen are heading for another winner-takes-all runoff in the French presidential election, with their fierce political rivalry and sharply opposing visions pulling clear of a crowded field of 12 candidates in the first round of voting. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen delivers a speech at her election day headquarters in Paris, Sunday, April 10, 2022. French polling agency projections show incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen leading in the first round of France's presidential election Sunday. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

A screen shows French President Emmanuel Macron and centrist candidate for reelection and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen at her election day headquarters, in Paris, Sunday, April 10, 2022. French polling agency projections show incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen leading in the first round of France's presidential election Sunday. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Nazi concentration camp survivor Naftali Fuerst from Slovakia at the entrance gate of the Nazi concentration camp 'Buchenwald' with the inscription 'Jedem das Seine' (To Each His Own) after a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Sunday, April 10, 2022. On April 11, 1945 the US Army liberated the concentration camp Buchenwald. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)

Flowers lay on a commemorative plaque during a wreath laying ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Sunday, April 10, 2022. On April 11, 1945 the US Army liberated the concentration camp Buchenwald. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)

A young girls who is yet to attain puberty is dressed up as living goddesses and worshipped as 'kumari' or virgin during Bengali Hindu festival Basanti Durga Puja in Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

An Indian Muslim man looks through a sunshade tent erected for worshippers in the compound of Jama Masjid on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 8, 2022. Islam's holiest month is a period of intense prayer, self-discipline, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Indian Muslims perform ablution at a pond before offering prayers on the first Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Mecca mosque in Hyderabad, India, Friday, April 8, 2022. Islam's holiest month is a period of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts. (AP Photo /Mahesh Kumar A.)

Gulfam Raza sits sideways on his fast moving Royal Enfield motorcycle in an enclosure known as Maut ka Kuan, or the well of death, at a local fair in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, April 9, 2022. Raza and others perform death defying stunts for very little money at traditional fairs all over the country. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Iris mourns over the grave of her son Eytam Magini during his funeral in Kfar Saba, Israel, Sunday, April 10, 2022. Magini was among three Israelis killed in a Thursday evening shooting attack by a Palestinian man who opened fire into a crowded bar in central Tel Aviv. Israeli security forces said they hunted down and killed the attacker early Friday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Charl Schwartzel, of South Africa, reacts to a missed birdie putt on the 12th green during the third round at the Masters golf tournament on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, reacts after holing out from the bunker for a birdie during the final round at the Masters golf tournament on Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Denver's Cole Guttman holds up the trophy after Denver defeated Minnesota State in the NCAA men's Frozen Four championship college hockey game Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Seth Beer watches his three-run, walk-off home run during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Thursday, April 7, 2022, in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks won 4-2. (AP Photo/Matt York)

New Orleans Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes (10) dunks against Memphis Grizzlies center Steven Adams (4) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)

Cars drive near a damaged bridge following a Russian attack in the previous weeks in the town of Makarov, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Hooded penitents from the ''Entrada de Jesus en Jerusalen'' brotherhood prepare to take part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession in Zaragoza, northern Spain, April 10, 2022. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week after two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

A young penitent from the ''Entrada de Jesus en Jerusalen'' brotherhood takes part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession in Zaragoza, northern Spain, April 10, 2022. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week after two years due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Barcelona's Pedri, left, loses his boot as Levante's Son tries to tackle him during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Levante and Barcelona at the Ciutat de Valencia stadium in Valencia, Spain, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Sri Lankan undergraduates scuffle with police during a protest demanding president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation near parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, April 8, 2022. Sri Lankan business leaders on Friday called for an end to political instability amid public demands for the president to resign over alleged economic mismanagement, warning that failure to do so would lead to economic catastrophe. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) steals the ball from Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker (1) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, April 8, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The tightrope walker of the Basinga Company, Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga, crosses the market square of Vevey, in Vevey, Switzerland, Saturday April 9, 2022, on a 180-metre long, 20 m high cable during the show "Ligne Ouverte", on the occasion of the celebration of the link between the population and the performing arts organised by the Theatre le Reflet. (Gabriel Monnet/Keystone via AP)

APope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 10, 2022. The Roman Catholic Church enters Holy Week, retracing the story of the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Visitors wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk under a canopy of cherry blossoms in full bloom in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A Pataxo Indigenous girl attends a ceremony called the Meeting of the First Peoples at the 18th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

A person raises his hands while listing to music amongst cherry blossoms at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)