
First Masters Green Jacket Awarded, Lee Elder broke the Masters color barrier, and France beat Germany on the race track - This DiSH for April 10
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In 1949, Sam Snead won his first Masters and became the first to receive a green jacket. Past winners were given a green jacket retroactively.
In 1975, Lee Elder became the first black man to play in The Masters.
In 1999, the Chicago Bulls only managed 49 points in a loss to the Miami Heat. It's the lowest point output in an NBA game in the shot clock era.
In 1938, French race car driver René Dreyfus, who was also Jewish, drove to a win in the Pau Gran Prix in his French built Dalahaye race car. Finishing second was a Mercedes Benz driven by famed German drivers Rudolf Caracciola and Hermann Lang.
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