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MOMENTS IN TIME

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* On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens more than 1,500 years after the last Games, which originated in Olympia in southwestern Greece. Two hundred and forty-one athletes from 14 countries took part.

* On April 5, 1955, Winston Churchill, who was instrumental in initiating the alliance between the U.K., the U.S. and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, resigned as prime minister of the U.K. His political career spanned half a century.

* On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper made the first public mobile telephone call, on a Manhattan sidewalk, to Joel Engel of Bell Labs. Cooper later told the BBC that his first words were, “Joel, I’m calling you from a ‘real’ cellular telephone. A portable handheld telephone.”

* On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron, aka “Hammerin’ Hank,” of the Atlanta Braves struck his 715th career home run, smashing Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers. Over the preceding winter, Aaron had endured death threats and hate mail from people who didn’t want to see that record broken by a Black man.

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