Also on this day:

• 43 BC: Julius Caesar is assassinated.
• 1841: Edgar Allan Poe’s «Murders in Rue Morgue» is published.
• 1894: Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope has its first public showing.
• 1903: Dr. Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid
• 1912: RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40 pm off Newfoundland.
• 1935: A severe sandstorm ravages the US Midwest, creating the «Dust Bowl.»
• 1939: The John Steinbeck novel «The Grapes of Wrath» is published
• 1981: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth.
• 2000: Metallica files a lawsuit against P2P file-sharing phenomenon Napster. This lawsuit eventually leads the movement in the music industry against file-sharing programs.
• 2002: At the 66th US Masters Tournament, Tiger Woods becomes the third player to claim back-to-back Masters.
• 2003: The Human Genome Project is completed with 99 percent of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99 percent