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Events

• 17 - 1275 - The first Summer Olympic Games of the modern era begins in Athens, Greece.
• 24 - 1291 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40.
• 25 - 1326 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first ever African American player in Major League Baseball, breaking a long time color barrier in the history of professional baseball in North America.
• 26 - 1392 - Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others

  Observances

• Nowruz

  Deaths

• 8 - 1348 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
• 23 - 1324 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States