April 4. Dan Bryant Minstrels perform "Dixie."

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April 4, 1859   Dan Bryant's Minstrels perform "Dixie" for the first time.• Carte-de-Visite photograph of Dan Bryant in blackface, by Sarony of New York, c1875.

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April 4. Tris Speaker is born in 1888.

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April 3. Guy Hecker is born in 1856.