Video: 'The 13th Amendment'
(Friday, April 8, 1864; during the American Civil War) — The U.S. Senate today passed, 38-6, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery. The House of Representatives passed it in Jan. 1865 and the amendment was ratified and adopted in Dec. 1865.
Video: 'Kurt Cobain's Death News Report from KSTW April 8, 1994'
(Friday, April 8, 1994, about 8:30 a.m. PDT) — Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead this morning in Seattle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was later determined that he had died on Apr. 5, 1994.
