1818 - Napoleon Bonaparte bids emotional farewell to his old guard at Palace of Fontainebleau 1896 - John Philip Sousa's operetta &;quot;El Capitan&;quot; premieres on Broadway at Broadway Theatre‚ NYC 1912 - Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens‚ Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5 1936 - 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown in 2:33:40.8 1982 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode bombs in Belfast‚ Derry‚ Armagh‚ Ballymena‚ Bessbrook and Magherafelt; 2 civilians are killed and 12 injured 1987 - US deports Karl Linnas to USSR‚ charged with Nazi war crimes 1997 - &;quot;Gin Game&;quot; opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances 2004 - In Iraq‚ 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents‚ killing 22 detainees and wounding 92. 2007 - Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston‚ Texas before killing a male hostage and himself. 2023 - Colombian President Gustavo Petro meets with US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington More Historical Events »