Cimarron City Library

This Day in History - April 15, 1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play Major League baseball in the modern era. (Moses Fleetwood Walker played for the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884.)

This Day in History - April 14, 1910 - William Howard Taft was the first U.S. President to throw the opening ball of Baseball Season.

This Day in History - April 10, 1815 - the most powerful volcanic eruption occurs on Mount Tambora in Indonesia. So much volcanic ash was ejected that the world climate was so affected that 1816 was known as the "year without a summer." Thomas Jefferson even noted that the summer was "as cold as a moderate winter" without having understood the connection to the eruption at that time.