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• It sure felt a lot different than the last time Scott was summoned to the media room at the end of a major championship.
• That was Lytham, where he had to answer for throwing away a seemingly sure victory in the British Open with bogeys on the last four holes.
• This was Augusta, where he reveled in the biggest win of his career Sunday evening.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Monday, April 15, the 105th day of 2013. There are 260 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland at 2:20 a.m. ship's time, more than 2½ hours after striking an iceberg; 1,514 people died, while less than half as many survived.
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• On this date:
• In 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated.
• In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died, nine hours after being shot the night before by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington. Andrew Johnson became the nation's 17th president.
• In 1874, an exhibition of paintings by 30 artists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cezanne, opened in Paris. (A critic derisively referred to the painters as "Impressionists," a name which stuck.)
• In 1942, Britain's King George VI awarded the George Cross to Malta for its heroism in the early days of World War II.
• In 1943, the Ayn Rand novel "The Fountainhead" was first published by Bobbs-Merrill Co.
• In 1945, during World War II, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.
• In 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball's first black major league player, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day. (The Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves, 5-3.)
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