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5 Things To Know Today: Monday, April 9

Here's your local guide to what's happening today in Weston, Redding and Easton.

• The Region 9 Board of Education's annual district hearing takes place tonight at 7 p.m. at .

• The Weston Parks and Recreation Commission meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the commission room at town hall.  

• On this day in 1965, the first indoor baseball game was played as the Astrodome opened in Houston. 

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• On this day in 2003, American forces captured Baghdad, and Iraqi citizens took down a statue of Saddam Hussein. 

• Happy 86th birthday to Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy magazine.  

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