April 9

On This Day In History
	2003, by Ramzi Haidar2003: Fall of Baghdad Baghdad fell to U.S.-led forces on this day in 2003, several weeks after the start of the Iraq War, a conflict begun to oust Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein because of his supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Explosions illuminating the skies of Baghdad during the U.S.-led air bombardment of the city, March
Biography Of The Day
	Jørn Utzon Born this day in 1918, Danish architect Jørn Utzon is best known for his dynamic, imaginative, but problematic design for Australia's most famous building, the Sydney Opera House, a combination of lightness and monumentality.
The Sydney Opera House, Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)
More Events On This Day In History
2001	2001 American Airlines officially completed its acquisition of Trans World Airlines and became the world's largest airline.
	1965 The Astrodome, an indoor stadium, opened in Houston, Texas, hosting its first baseball game.
	1963 An act of Congress conferred honorary U.S. citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill.
	1939 African American contralto Marian Anderson sang to an Easter Sunday crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
	1898 Paul Robeson, a celebrated American singer, actor, and political activist, was born.
	1865 General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia of the Confederate States of America, signed a treaty of surrender at Appomattox Court House, ending the American Civil War.
	1682 René-Robert Cavelier, sieur (lord) de La Salle, claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming it Louisiana.
1388	1388 The Battle of Näfels culminated in a major victory for the Swiss Confederation in the first century of its struggle for self-determination against Habsburg overlordship.