April 8 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1913, the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted, requiring that U.S. senators be "elected by the people." In 1918, actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin pitch Third Liberty Loan bonds in front of the Sub-Treasury (now Federal Hall National Memorial) in New York City. In 1935, the U.S. Congress approved the Works Progress Administration , a central part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1952, U.S. President Harry