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• April 19, 1897 marked the first running of the Boston Marathon, with 15 runners at the starting line. John J. McDermott, representing the Pastime Athletic Club of New York City, was the inaugural winner with a time of 2:55:10, nearly seven minutes ahead of the next competitor. The men’s record, set in 2011, is 2:03:02, while the best women’s time is 2:19:59, a record achieved in 2014. • “The Wedding of the Century” took place on April 18, 1956 when actress Grace Kelly married Monaco’s Prince Rainier III. Thirty-six seamstresses worked on 26-year-old Kelly’s wedding dress for six weeks in preparation for the nuptials. After meeting at the Cannes Film Festival, the pair corresponded for eight months before Rainier traveled to America to meet her family, proposing to Grace three days later. Before the marriage plans could proceed, the family was required to provide a $2 million dowry. Following the ceremony attended by 600 guests, the royal couple departed for their seven-week Mediterranean honeymoon cruise aboard the prince’s yacht. • The month of April has had its share of tragedies. In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by Timothy McVeigh. In 1999, Colorado’s Columbine High School shootings occurred. It was also the month of the assassinations of President Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. The sinking of the Titanic, the devastating nuclear accident at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl plant, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Virginia Tech shooting also took place in April. ...continued

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