Saturday,  April 12, 2014 • Vol. 16--No. 268 • 30 of 30

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Somali pirates by U.S. Navy snipers who shot and killed three of the hostage-takers. Angel Cabrera became the first Argentine to win the Masters. In Hameenlinna, Finland, the United States won its second straight women's World Hockey Championship title, beating Canada 4-1. Actress Marilyn Chambers, who'd starred in the 1972 adult film "Behind the Green Door," was found dead at her home in Canyon Country, Calif., 10 days before her 57th birthday.
One year ago: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, visiting South Korea, delivered a stark warning to North Korea not to test-fire a mid-range missile while tamping down anxiety caused by a new U.S. intelligence report suggesting significant progress in the communist regime's nuclear weapons program. Guan Tianlang, a 14-year-old from China, made history as the youngest player to make the cut in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event; despite being the first player at Augusta National to get hit with a one-shot penalty for slow play, Guan made the cut under the 10-shot rule at the Masters.

Today's Birthdays: Country singer Ned Miller is 89. Actress Jane Withers is 88. Opera singer Montserrat Caballe is 81. Playwright Alan Ayckbourn (AYK'-bohrn) is 75. Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is 74. Rock singer John Kay (Steppenwolf) is 70. Actor Ed O'Neill is 68. Actor Dan Lauria is 67. Talk show host David Letterman is 67. Author Scott Turow is 65. Singer David Cassidy is 64. Actor-playwright Tom Noonan is 63. Rhythm-and-blues singer JD Nicholas (The Commodores) is 62. Singer Pat Travers is 60. Actor Andy Garcia is 58. Movie director Walter Salles (SAL'-ihs) is 58. Country singer Vince Gill is 57. Actress Suzzanne (cq) Douglas is 57. Rock musician Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen) is 56. Rock singer Art Alexakis (al-ex-AH'-kis) (Everclear) is 52. Country singer Deryl Dodd is 50. Folk-pop singer Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) is 50. Actress Alicia Coppola is 46. Rock singer Nicholas Hexum (311) is 44. Actor Nicholas Brendon is 43. Actress Shannen Doherty is 43. Actress Marley Shelton is 40. Actress Sarah Jane Morris is 37. Actress Jordana Spiro is 37. Rock musician Guy Berryman (Coldplay) is 36. Actress Claire Danes is 35. Actress Jennifer Morrison is 35. Contemporary Christian musician Joe Rickard (Red) is 27. Rock singer-musician Brendon Urie (Panic at the Disco) is 27. Actress Saoirse (SUR'-shuh) Ronan is 20.

Thought for Today: "All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others." - William Graham Sumner (1840-1910).

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