U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall secretly leased federal oil reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company in return for cash gifts in the Teapot Dome Scandal.
April 7, 1922
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American basketball player Michael Jordan, widely considered the game's greatest all-around player, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
April 6, 2009
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American educator and reformer Booker T. Washington, who notably was the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), was born in Virginia.
April 5, 1856
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