Kobe Bryant of the Lakers scored 60 points in his final game, wrapping up 20 years in the NBA.
In 1743, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces.In 1953, “Casino Royale,” Ian Fleming’s first book as well as the first James Bond novel, was published in London by Jonathan Cape Ltd.In 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black performer in a leading role to win an Academy Award for his performance in “Lilies of the Field.
Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient. 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.