1938 – The cartoon short Porky’s Hare Hunt debuted in movie theaters, introducing ‘Happy Rabbit’ (a prototype of Bugs Bunny).
1939 – The 1939/1940 New York World’s Fair opened.
1939 – Franklin Roosevelt became the first US President to appear on Televsion, while appearing at the New York World’s Fair.
If you were born on April 30th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 7th (prior year)
April 30: Cwltic Tradition
In Celtic tradition, the night of April 30th was thought of as the darkest of the year, when witches flew to frighten, spawning evil throughout the land. In response, people pounded on kettles, slammed doors, cracked whips, rang church bells and made all the noise they could to scare off the corruption they imagined to be moving on the moist air.
They lit bonfires and torches and witch- proofed their houses with spring boughs. Such vigils were kept throughout the night until the rising of the May 1st’s dawn.
April 30 is…
Hairstylist Appreciation Day Honesty Day Jazz Day Mahjong Day Mr. Potato Head Day Oatmeal Cookie Day Raisin Day
April 30 Birthday Quotes
“I’ve seen ‘karma’ slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around.” – Kirsten Dunst
“Why can’t we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn’t be long before a kid will be in his lap.” – Cloris Leachman
“People are complicated; you put two of them together and it’s generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.” – Johnny Galecki
“But I don’t want nutrition. I want food!” – Alice B. Toklas
“In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.” – Larry Niven
April 30 Birthdays
1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist (died in 1967) 1908 – Eve Arden, American character actress (died in 1990) 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress 1938 – Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (died in 2012) 1938 – Larry Niven, American author 1943 – Bobby Vee, American singer-songwriter (died in 2016) 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (died in 2010) 1975 – Johnny Galecki, American actor 1982 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model 1992 – Travis Scott, American rapper and producer
April 30 History
1789 – In New York City, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase from France, for 15 million dollars, also included much (if not all of) of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1894 – Antarctic iceberg fragment was sighted at a latitude 26.50 degrees south, approximately parallel to to Rio de Janeiro, the nearest to the equator that an Antarctic iceberg that has been seen.
1900 – Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1900 – Hawaii became a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opened in St. Louis, Missouri.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1939 – The New York World’s fair opened at Flushing Meadow Park in Queens.
1947 – Nevada’s Boulder Dam was renamed the Hoover Dam.
1948 – The Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle, debuted at an auto show in Amsterdam.
1955 – #1 Hit April 30, 1955 – July 8, 1955: Perez Prado – Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
1966 – The Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco.
1966 – #1 Hit April 30, 1966 – May 6, 1966: Young Rascals – Good Lovin’
1977 – #1 Hit April 30, 1977 – May 6, 1977: Glen Campbell – Southern Nights
1983 – #1 Hit April 30, 1983 – May 20, 1983: Michael Jackson – Beat It
1989 – CNBC, the first NBC cable channel and the first financial cable channel, began transmitting.
1992 – The finale for The Cosby Show aired on NBC
1992- A Time Capsule was put in the ground in front of the Nickelodeon Building. However, on the same exact day 13 years later, Nickelodeon’s studios closed. It’s now underneath the entrance to the Nickelodeon Resort. It will be opened April 30th, 2042.
1993 – Tennis star Monica Seles was stabbed by Gunter Parchein Hamburg, Germany.
1997 – During the ‘Puppy’ episode of Ellen it was revealed that the main/title character (Ellen DeGeneres) was gay.
2004 – Mean Girls and Laws of Attraction were released in theaters.
2011 – #1 Hit April 30, 2011 – May 20, 2011: Rihanna featuring Britney Spears – S&M
#1 Hit April 30, 2022 – May 13, 2022: As It Was – Harry Styles
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
If someone killed the 1st zombie, stopping a zombie apocalypse from happening, he\she would more then likely go to prison. #nogooddeedunpunished
“Don’t let it end like this! Tell them I said something” – Francisco “Pancho” Villa #LastWords
The Seven Deadly Sins #6- Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain.
A group of Mushrooms is called a Troop.
Every “secure” website: “The password you’ve chosen is too similar to a password you may actually be able to remember. We require you to select a password you will never remember.”
It would take over 3,600 3.5″ floppy disks to store a single 1080p movie file (~5gb).
I need to schedule my next dentist and oil change appointments on the same day so I can kill two fears of being scolded for not being a responsible adult with one stone.
The Capital of Taiwan is Taipei
“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do’em all together, I guess.” – Elvis Presley
The first recorded use of the acronym OMG was in a 1917 letter by Lord Fisher, a retired British admiral to Winston Churchill.
“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.” – Neil Gaiman, Stardust
A Flock of Seagulls lead singer Mike Score was a hairdresser before he was a rock star.
1770 – James Cook arrived in Australia, and named Botany Bay.
1945 – The Dachau concentration camp was liberated.
1968 – Hair, a hippie/counter-culture and sexual revolution musical, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway.
2011 – The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey in London.
If you were born on April 29th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 6th (prior year)
The Modern Zipper
The ‘Hookless No. 2’ was invented in 1913 by Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback, and perfected in 1917 (patent #1,219,881). The zipper is an indispensable garment invention that has revolutionized fashion. Initially used for industrial purposes, zippers became popular in clothing during and after WWII.
April 29 is…
Dance Day Shrimp Scampi Day Zipper Day
April 29 Birthday Quotes
“News is what people don’t want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.” – William Randolph Hearst
“I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.” – Daniel Day-Lewis
“Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom… In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.” – Duke Ellington
“If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to win.” – Andre Agassi
“If I could do it over, I’d do better.” – Rod McKuen
April 29 Birthdays
1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (died in 1951) 1899 – Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died in 1974) 1901 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (died in 1989) 1908 – Jack Williamson, American author and academic (died in 2006) 1917 – Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (died in 2012) 1933 – Rod McKuen, American singer-songwriter and poet (died in 2015) 1933 – Willie Nelson, American singer-songwriter 1945 – Tammi Terrell, American soul singer-songwriter (died in 1970) 1951 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (died in 2001) 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian 1955 – Kate Mulgrew, American actress 1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, British-Irish actor 1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress 1970 – Andre Agassi, American tennis player 1970 – Uma Thurman, American actress 1996 – Katherine Langford, Australian actress
April 29 History
1429 – 17-year-old Joan of Arc arrived to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
1864 – Theta Xi fraternity was founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
1962 – ABC’s Wide World of Sports premiered.
1945 – The US Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberated the Dachau concentration camp.
1945 – Adolf Hitler married his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker.
1950 – #1 Hit April 29, 1950 – July 14, 1950: Anton Karas – The Third Man Theme
1953 – In the first 3D television broadcast, an episode of Space Patrol was shown on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1968 – Broadway Show – Hair (Musical) April 29, 1968
1983 – Valley Girl and The Hunger were released in theaters.
1991 (Cyclone) Bangladesh Cyclone, in Bangladesh, killed 135,000 people.
1993 – A cartoon version of Barry White appeared on the fourth season finale of The Simpsons.
1992 – Rodney King trial verdict announced. Four police officers who had been charged with using excessive force in arresting black motorist Rodney King a year earlier were acquitted. Rioting ensued – over the next three days 53 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.
1994 – When a Man Loves a Woman, With Honors, You So Crazy and No Escape debuted in theaters.
1996 – TV Land network made its debut.
1996 – Broadway Show – Rent (Musical) April 29, 1996
2005 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and XXX: State of the Union were released in theaters.
2011 – The Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Kate (Catherine) Middleton.
2011 – Fast Five debuted in theaters.
2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox set the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero (0) fans were in attendance for the game, because the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Brevity – and I know most of you have heard this before and maybe some people will not agree, but I think it is true and I know others who feel the same way, though I firmly believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion – is the soul of wit.
Van Morrison – Real Name: George Ivan Morrison
One of my planets is making this horrible screeching noise. My friend is a planetary mechanic and says that I might have to replace the planet’s Van Allen belt. How can I tell if it’s worn out?
The Scary Statistic: Cancer odds: 1-in-7
What to do: Don’t smoke, drink purified water, avoid living near or around chemical plants.
Toucan Sam tells us to ‘follow your nose’ to Kellogg’s Froot Loops.
“I know you’re scared. I’m scared too. They’re sharks. They’re scary. No one wants to get eaten. But I’ve been eaten. And I’m here to tell you it takes a lot more than that to bring a good man down.” – Fin Shepard, Sharknado
“There are no failures. Just experiences.” – Des Coroy
Employing people based on their ability to perform a task ostracizes those with little or no skill, and has no place in an inclusive society.
When I trip and fall on the ground, I’m crashing into a PLANET. The fact that I can survive with just some scrapes basically makes me a superhero.
The Capital of Tajikistan is Dushanbe
To this day I can’t read “This is how we do it.” Without hearing Montel Jordan singing it.
1967 – World boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) refused to be inducted into the US Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title.
2001 – Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space, paying the Russian Space Agency a reputed $20,000,000 to join the crew of Soyuz TM.
If you were born on April 28th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 5th (prior year)
The Dark Side of the Moon Album
Selling over 45,000,000 copies, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon spent a total of 923 weeks (17 years, 9 months) on the Billboard 200 chart overall, including a 741 week (14 years, 3 months) stint after being released. Pink Floyd’s famous Dark Side of the Moon cover art improperly displays refraction through a prism.
April 28 is…
Blueberry Pie Day Kiss Your Mate Day Superhero Day
April 28 Birthday Quotes
“Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.” – Jessica Alba
“Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.” – Saddam Hussein
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” – Harper Lee
“We should make politicians dress like race car drivers; when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.” – Jay Leno
“I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn’t stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That’s all there is to it. Really, nothing more.” – Oskar Schindler
April 28 Birthdays
1758 – James Monroe, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (died in 1831) 1878 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (died in 1954) 1908 – Oskar Schindler, German industrialist and humanitarian (died in 1974) 1911 – Lee Falk, comic strip writer and illustrator (died in 1999) 1924 – Dick Ayers, American comic book author and illustrator (died in 2014) 1926 – Harper Lee, American novelist (died in 2016) 1937 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (died in 2006) 1941 – Ann-Margret, Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer 1949 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (died in 2006) 1950 – Jay Leno, American comedian and talk show host 1974 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress 1981 – Jessica Alba, American actress
April 28 History
1788 – Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1789 – The HMS Bounty was taken over in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the first mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters were set adrift in a small boat.
1919 – The first jump with the Army manually operated (jump first, then pull the chute) army parachute was made by Leslie LeRoy Irvin in Dayton, Ohio.
1923 – Wembley Stadium opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
1953 – The US Patent (#2,636,176) was issued for an ‘overcoat for two people’ to Howard C. Rossin.
1965 – My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand’s first TV special, aired on CBS.
1967 – World boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) refused to be inducted into the US Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title.
1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios reached number one on the US Billboard chart
1975 – Tom Snyder interviewed ex-Beatle John Lennon on The Tomorrow Show.
1979 – #1 Hit April 28, 1979 – May 4, 1979: Blondie – Heart of Glass
1988 – Over Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and fell to her death when part of the plane’s fuselage ripped open in mid-flight.
1994- The Simpsons aired its 100th episode
1997 – Broadway Show – Jekyll & Hyde (Musical) April 28, 1997
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist.
2012 – #1 Hit April 28, 2012 – June 22, 2012: Gotye featuring Kimbra – Somebody That I Used to Know
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
The Milky Way Galaxy is called that, because the Romans called it Via Galactica, meaning Road Made of Milk.
“Good job, guys. Let’s just not come in tomorrow. Let’s just take a day. Have you ever tried shawarma? There’s a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don’t know what it is, but I wanna try it.” – Tony Stark
Boston’s Irreversible Law of Clutter: In any household, junk accumulates to fill the space available for its storage.
“Elementary, my dear Watson.” – Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) in Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1939
The plot of Star Wars would be a whole lot different if the Empire had security cameras in their hallways.
Kids these days are so ungrateful! Back in my day all we had to do was sit around in nothingness and the only exciting thing that ever happened was the big bang.
There are silence and darkness, but no word for an absence of touching.
Anyone know any games to kill some time? Preferably something I can play and look like I’m working.
No time like the present = No time. Like the present.
Maybe the Bermuda Triangle disappearances can be explained by a fearsome creature that not only destroys ships but also flies into the air to wreck aircraft.
The Capital of Tanzania is Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative)
Liberty Island and The Statue of Liberty are New York City-owned but physically reside entirely within New Jersey.
1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
1967 – Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Quebec.
1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
2006 – Construction began on the Freedom Tower (now One World Trade Center) in New York City.
If you were born on April 27th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 4th (prior year)
Arbor Day Is The Last Friday In April
Arbor Day is celebrated annually on the last Friday in April and was founded by J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska City, Nebraska in 1872. The customary observance is to plant a tree. National Arbor Day is a civic holiday solely in Nebraska with other states choosing their own dates for Arbor Day observance. This day commemorates tree planting actions to commemorate healthier outdoor air quality, a greener environment, increased rainfall levels as well as decreased erosion rates for suburban and rural subdivisions among other benefits).
On the first Arbor Day, April 10, 1872, an estimated one million trees were planted.
April 27 is…
Babe Ruth Day Freedom Day (in South Africa) Little Pampered Dog Day Morse Code Day Prime Rib Day Tell a Story Day
April 27 Birthday Quotes
“The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be beggir than the rest of it.” – Lizzo
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King
“Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.” – Wallace Carothers
“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” – Tom Petty
April 27 Birthdays
1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (died in 1797) 1791 – Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, co-invented the Morse code (died in 1872) 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (died in 1885) 1894 – George Petty, American painter and illustrator (died in 1975) 1896 – Wallace Carothers, American chemist, inventor of nylon (died in 1937) 1899 – Walter Lantz, American animator and producer (died in 1994) 1922 – Jack Klugman, American actor (died in 2012) 1927 – Coretta Scott King, African-American activist and author (died in 2006) 1937 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (died in 1992) 1947 – Pete Ham (died on April 24, 1975) #27club 1951 – Ace Frehley, American guitarist and songwriter. Space/Ace, The Spaceman 1959 – Sheena Easton, Scottish-American singer-songwriter 1963 – Russell T Davies, Welsh screenwriter and producer 1986 – Jenna Coleman, English actress 1988 – Lizzo, American singer and rapper
April 27 History
4977 BC – The Universe was created, according to Johannes Kepler.
1667 – Blind writer John Milton sold his copyright to Paradise Lost for 10 pounds. He needed the money because he was penniless at the time.
1865 – SS Sultana explosion, Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1800 people.
1871 -The American Museum of Natural History opened in New York City.
1887 – George Thomas Morton performed the first US operation to remove an appendix, called an appendectomy.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gained autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1956 – Rocky Marciano retired as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1963 – #1 Hit April 27, 1963 – May 17, 1963: Little Peggy March – I Will Follow Him
1967 – Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Canada
1970 – The discovery of Hahnium (Ha), element 105, or Dubnium (Db) was announced at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, DC. The work was done by Albert Ghiorso at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, California.
1990 – Spaced Invaders and Wild Orchid were released in theaters.
April 27, 1985 (fiction) RIP Jason Todd was killed by The Joker, Batman #427, DC Comics
April 27, 1987 Birthday (fictional) Rose Tyler, Doctor Who, TV
1991 – #1 Hit April 27, 1991 – May 10, 1991: Amy Grant – Baby Baby
1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
1995 – Village of the Damned and Top Dog debuted in theaters.
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972.
April 28, 2003 – The Apple iPod (3rd generation) was released.
2013 – #1 Hit April 27, 2013 – May 17, 2013: Pink featuring Nate Ruess – Just Give Me a Reason
2014 – Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were declared saints by the Catholic Church.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
If you took a 24-hour clock and put it on the North Pole, the hour hand wouldn’t turn.
“Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.” – Steven Wright
“Hey Look! It’s Enrico Pallazzo!” #moviequotes
“Tomorrow I shall no longer be here” – Nostradamus #LastWords
Useless Pronunciation: E as in effort
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” #songlyrics
In Iron Man/Avengers/MCU, J.A.R.V.I.S is an acronym for “Just A Rather Very Intelligent System.”
Pixar’s UP was the first-ever animated film or 3D film to open the Cannes Film Festival.
A group of Seabirds is called a Wreck.
Chicago (the musical) was based on a play based on the real cases of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner.
A mathematician stumbles home drunk at 3 a.m. …and his wife is livid. “You SWORE that you’d be home by 11:45!” “No,” slurs the mathematician… “I said I’d be home by a quarter of 12.”
April 26, 1968 Birthday (fictional) Lorelai Gilmore, TV Mom
1986 – A nuclear reactor accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, created the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
April 26, 19** Birthday (fictional) Donna Troy (Wonder Girl/Troia), DC Comics
If you were born on April 26th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 3rd (prior year)
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor No 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and is now within a large restricted area known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It is also administered by the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management that manages this former power plant and its exclusion zone.
During a test, an extreme power surge caused water to flood out from under Reactor No 4`s damaged reactor core. 200 tons (180 metric tonnes) of solid radioactive fuel mass hit a pile against metal plates which were designed to slow down this kind of meltdown accident.
April 26 is…
National Help a Horse Day Pretzel Day Richter Scale Day World Intellectual Property (IP) Day World Pinhole Photography Day
April 26 Birthday Quotes
“Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.” – Charles Francis Richter
“I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.” – Giorgio Moroder
“If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.” Carol Burnett
“I wish heroes didn’t exist. Whenever we need a hero, it’s because there’s a problem that needs to be solved; it’s because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.” – Jet Li
April 26 Birthdays
1879 – Eric Campbell, British actor (died in 1917) 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician, Nazi (died in 1987) 1900 – Charles Richter, American inventor and seismologist (died in 1985) 1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer 1938 – Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1938 – Maurice Williams, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor 1963 – Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor 1965 – Kevin James, American comedic actor 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 45th First Lady of the United States 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor 1980 – Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
April 26 History
662 (Earthquake) Iran
1278 – Imprisoned for murder, John le F*cker sent a letter asking for bail, the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word “f*ck”.
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. People were traditionally baptized three days after birth, this is how we know his birthday was April 23.
1721 (Earthquake) Tabriz, Iran
1882 – A perpetual motion machine was Patented (#257,103) by John Sutliff. I’m pretty sure it didn’t really work.
1921 – The first US broadcast of the weather was made from St. Louis, Missouri, over station WEW. Or so legend has it. There were few rules in the earliest days of radio, so another station may have made a weather announcement. It was about 55 degrees.
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established.
1958 – #1 Hit April 26, 1958 – May 2, 1958: The Platters – Twilight Time
1975 – #1 Hit April 26, 1975 – May 2, 1975: B. J. Thomas – (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
1977 – Studio 54 opened at 254 West 54th Street in New York City.
1978 – Ringo Starr’s Ringo a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper, aired on NBC, with George Harrison narrating.
1986 – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, Ukraine, sending a radioactive cloud over much of Europe. It was announced two days later.
1989 (Tornado) Daulatpur-Salturia Tornado, Bangladesh killed 1300 people and injured 12,000.
1985 – Just one of the Guys and Stick were released in theaters.
1996 – The Truth About Cats & Dogs, The Quest, Mulholland Falls and Sunset Park debuted in theaters.
2002 – Jason and Life, or Something Like It were released in theaters.
2010 – Boobquake was envisioned by Jennifer McCreight. An estimated 200,000 people participated worldwide, and the epicenter was considered the Purdue Bell Tower in West Lafayette, Indiana.
2011 – The Voice premiered on NBC
2018 – American comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty of sexual assault.
2019 – Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame was released
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
I’ve always hated calling our galaxy “The Milky Way”. Maybe after the Andromeda merger, we’ll come up with a better one.
A group of Sardines is called a Family.
The town of Hot Springs, New Mexico changed its town name to Truth or Consequences, in honor of the radio show of the same name.
John Ford – Real Name: Sean O’Fearna
“No hay banda! There is no band! Il n’est pas de orquestra! This is all a tape-recording. No hay banda! And yet we hear a band.” – Bondar in Mulholland Dr. #moviequotes
“Millions of people live in this world, maybe it’s not to late, to learn how to live and forget how to hate.” #songlyrics
Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.
Still using my Santa stamps. Thumbin’ my nose at The Man.
“I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” – Zoolander #moviequotes
“Cut ties from all the lies you’ve been living in.” #songlyrics
A “double-blind” study means that both the patient AND the researcher don’t know who the control group is and which option the placebo is.
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” #songlyrics
1901 – New York required the first license plates.
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson published Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
If you were born on April 25th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 2nd (prior year)
World Malaria Day
World Malaria Day is dedicated to raising awareness and fighting against malaria. It`s an opportunity for people in the know – like you – to get up to date on the latest knowledge, campaigns, and initiatives going on for this neglected disease that leaves over 400000 dead annually, affecting 3 times more women than men globally.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases, it can cause yellow skin, seizures, coma, or death for the mosquitos’ unfortunate victims. Symptoms usually begin ten to fifteen days after being bitten by an infected mosquito and take a week or two to subside without treatment.
April 25 is…
DNA Day Hug a Plumber Day Telephone Day World Malaria Day World Penguin Day Zucchini Bread Day
April 25 Birthday Quotes
“It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.” – Al Pacino
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” – Edward R. Murrow
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” – William J. Brennan
“Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.” – Oliver Cromwell
April 25 Birthdays
1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died in 1658) 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italina inventor; wireless telegrapd (died in 1937) 1906 – William Brennan, American jurist, US Supreme Court Associate Justice (died in 1997) 1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (died in 1965) 1915 – Mort Weisinger, American comic book author (died in 1978) 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (died in 1996) 1926 – Johnny Craig, American comic book author and illustrator (died in 2001) 1933 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (died in 2011) 1940 – Al Pacino, American actor 1946 – Talia Shire, American actress 1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American character actor 1961 – Dinesh D’Souza, Indian-American journalist and author 1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor and voice artist 1969 – Joe Buck, American sportscaster 1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress 1970 – Jason Lee, American actor 1977 – Marguerite Moreau, American actress
April 25 History
1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, committed suicide during a peasant rebellion.
1719 – Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published.
1792 – Highwayman (thief) Nicolas J. Pelletier became the first person executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
1972 – La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1859 – Ground was broken for opening the Suez Canal by British and French engineers. The 100-mile canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Seas opened ten years later, on November 17, 1869.
1901 – New York became the first US state to require automobile license plates.
April 25, 1926 (fiction) Tiana turned into a frog, The Princess and the Frog, Disney, Film
1944 – The United Negro College Fund was incorporated.
1947 – President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.
1954 – Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated the first practical solar cell.
1960 – #1 Hit April 25, 1960 – May 22, 1960: Elvis Presley – Stuck on You
1961 – Robert Noyce patented the integrated circuit (#2,981,877).
1970 – #1 Hit April 25, 1970 – May 8, 1970: The Jackson 5 – ABC
1980 – Nick Perry Rigged the Pennsylvania Lottery’s daily number drawing to only draw a six or four, thus drawing 666. This would be known as the ‘Triple Six Fix’.
1982 – Israel completed the withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
If you were born on April 24th, You were likely conceived the week of… August 1st (prior year)
Pigs in a Blanket Day
On Pigs in a Blanket Day, you can enjoy the sensation of a blanket wrapped around your shoulders after tearing open that package of meat and dough. They are also known as devils on horsebacks, kilted sausages, and wiener winks. What began as Eastern European food spread to immigrant American shores and took on regional variations through different methods of cooking and serving.
The first written record of pigs in a blanket was in Betty Crocker’s Cooking for Kids, in 1957.
April 24 is…
Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
April 24 Birthday Quotes
“My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.” – Kelly Clarkson
“I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.” – Cedric the Entertainer
“We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.” – Vincent de Paul
“We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.” – Shirley MacLaine
“If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we’d all approach our lives very differently.” – Eric Bogosian
April 24 Birthdays
1581 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (died in 1660) 1916 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (died in 2002) 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, and dancer 1936 – Jill Ireland, English actress (died in 1990) 1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer and actress 1953 – Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer 1964 – Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian, actor, and producer 1982 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer-songwriter 1992 – Joe Keery, American actor 1994 – Caspar Lee, British-South African Youtuber
April 24 History
1184 BC – The fall of Troy (with the Trojan Horse) took place, according to tradition.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, the News-Letter, was published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1800 – The Library of Congress was established.
1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, set sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop “Spray”.
1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey initially for the exclusive use of his employees, was opened.
1908 (Tornado) Amite, Louisiana and Purvis Missouri.
1913 – The 57 floor Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City opened.
1928 – The fathometer was Patented (#1,667,540) by Herbert Grove Dorsey. It was designed to measure the depth of water.
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II knighted Winston Churchill.
1961 – #1 Hit April 24, 1961 – May 21, 1961: Del Shannon – Runaway
1965 – #1 Hit April 24, 1965 – April 30, 1965: Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders – Game of Love
April 24, 1967 (fiction) Sam and Dean’s Impala rolled off the assembly line, Supernatural, TV
1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, was launched.
1981 -The first IBM personal computer was completed.
1982 – Jane Fonda’s first Workout video was released.
1990 – STS-31 – The Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
April 24, 2009 – Hatching Pete aired on The Disney Channel
If good things come in small packages, then more good things can come in large packages.
“If you build it, he will come.” – Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta (voice)) in Field of Dreams, 1989
In the Information Age, ignorance is a choice.
When I was a kid, I thought it would be awesome if I could press a button and food would come to my door. Now, this probably happens every second of every day.
“Shane. Shane. Come back!” – Joey Starrett (Brandon De Wilde) #moviequotes
US President #14 Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) – the first President to have a Christmas Tree in the White House.
Gummo Marx – Real Name: Milton Marx
The original Star Wars trilogy would’ve never happened had Obi-Wan mercy killed Anakin at the end of the prequels instead of leaving him to burn in the lava.
“Sometimes when I’m sad, I sit and watch the power station. They say if you lie between two of the main wires, your body just evaporates. You become a gas. I wonder what that would feel like.” – Tammy Metzler in Election
“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.” – Lana Turner
A group of Badgers is called a Cete or Colony or Set or Company.
In 2003, archaeologists found 20,000-year-old human footprints in the Australian Outback of a male they called T8. Scientists determined he was running 23 mph in mud, barefoot, and was even accelerating before the tracks stopped.
Usain Bolt’s record for running speed is 27.44 mph.
1516 – The Munich Reinheitsgebot, rules regarding the ingredients of beer, took effect in all of Bavaria.
1635 – America’s oldest school, The Boston Latin School opened.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
1940 -The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, killed 198 people.
If you were born on April 23rd, You were likely conceived the week of… July 31st (prior year)
Saint George
The myth of Saint George (died April 23, 303) slaying the dragon originated in stories of his valiance and bravery brought back by the Crusaders who learned of him during the Middle Ages.
Legend has it that George arrived upon a village where a dragon was terrorizing the local people. To appease the creature, they had begun to sacrifice a sheep per day to feed its hunger until they no longer had any sheep. The King then decreed that they must sacrifice the local children to keep the dragon at bay.
Each day, the sacrifice was chosen by lottery until the King’s daughter was selected. As she was being led to the dragon, George happened by. Horrified by what he discovered, he offered to slay the dragon. During his battle with the dragon, George noticed a vulnerable patch of skin under its arm and charged forward with his sword, slaying the beast. (St. George Society)
King Edward III made Saint George the country’s official saint shortly after ascending to the throne in 1327. The Knights of the Round Table had as their patron saint St. George because he was the only one of all the saints who was a horseman. He is the Patron Saint of cavalry from which the word Chivalry is derived, and the special saint of England.
April 23 is…
English Muffin Day Impossible Astronaut Day Lover’s Day Picnic Day Take a Chance Day World Book and Copyright Day World Laboratory Day
April 23 Birthday Quotes
“There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.” – John Cena
“There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.” – Shirley Temple
“No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.” – George Lopez
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” – Max Planck
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn
April 23 Birthdays
1621 – William Penn, English admiral and politician (died in 1670) 1791 – James Buchanan, American politician, 15th President of the United States (died in 1868) 1858 – Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1947) 1917 – Dorian Leigh, American model (died in 2008) 1928 – Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (died in 2014) 1932 – Halston, American fashion designer (died in 1990) 1936 – Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter (died in 1988) 1939 – Lee Majors, American actor 1942 – Sandra Dee, American model and actress (died in 2005) 1957 – Jan Hooks, American comedic actress (died in 2014) 1960 – Valerie Bertinelli, American actress 1961 – George Lopez, American comedian and actor 1968 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist, Oklahoma City bombing co-perpetrator (died in 2001) 1977 – John Cena, American professional wrestler and actor 1977 – John Oliver, English comedian, actor and television host 1977 – Kal Penn, Indian-American actor 1979 – Jaime King, American actress and model
April 23 History
1516 – A Beer Purity Law was put into law still in effect today in Germany. It was decreed on April 23, 1516, by Munich’s Duke Wilhelm, protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals, and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding.
1564 – William Shakespeare was born. He went on to write 38 plays and invent dozens of English words.
1635 – The first public school in the Americas, the Boston Latin School, was founded in Boston.
1916 – The Chicago Cubs played their first game at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley Field).
1940 – Rhythm Club Fire (or The Natchez Dance Hall Holocaust) Natchez, Mississippi killed 198 people.
1940 – A leak-proof flashlight battery (the Ray-o-Vac) was patented (#2,198,423) by Herman Anthony.
1961 – Judy Garland performed at Carnegie Hall, the performance is often called “the greatest night in showbiz history.”
1977 – #1 Hit April 23, 1977 – April 29, 1977: Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
1982 – The Sword and the Sorcerer was released in theaters.
1983 – #1 Hit April 23, 1983 – April 29, 1983: Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen
1985 – Coca-Cola changed its formula and released ‘New Coke’.
1988 – #1 Hit April 23, 1988 – May 6, 1988: Whitney Houston – Where Do Broken Hearts Go
1994 – Physicists at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory discovered the subatomic particle called the top quark.
2004 – 13 Going on 30 was released in theaters.
2005 – First YouTube video was uploaded, titled “Me at the zoo”.
#1 Hit April 23, 2022 – April 29, 2022: First Class – Jack Harlow
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Paul Desmond, the composer of the jazz classic, “Take Five” left all the profits from the song to the Red Cross after his death.
People in 1996 would be really impressed by our technology today, but people in the 1950s would be really unimpressed because of their idea of the future.
It is possible for some people to sneeze with their eyes open. #concentrate!
TV Quotes… “Here it is, your moment of Zen” on “The Daily Show”
28 Days Later was filmed on a Canon XL-1 DV camera using mini-DV tapes instead of 35mm film.
Every movie, book, television show, and game that deals with time travel stresses the importance of not changing the timeline. It’s like we’re being conditioned not to interfere should we fall back through time.
The mechanical shark used in the movie ‘Jaws’ was nicknamed Bruce, after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer.
Kids today are so coddled – Teddy Ruxpin, Elf on the Shelf, Toy Story. In my day, if dolls magically came to life, they murdered you and everyone you loved.
The Capital of Togo is Lome
“Have no fear of perfection- you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
“Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something, hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” – Roger Staubach
“To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
1864 – The US Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, opened in Athens.
1970 – The first Earth Day was celebrated.
If you were born on April 22nd, You were likely conceived the week of… July 30th (prior year)
Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the recently opened Unassigned Lands. The area that was made available for settlement included all or part of the Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties in today’s U.S. state of Oklahoma; a large landmass that had been purchased as an agreement on behalf of certain railroad companies by Thomas Alfred Elder and Charles Naylor prior to 1889. Settlers lined up at high noon on April 22, 1889, with an estimated 50 thousand people trying to stake their claim to one out of the two million acres that were open for settlement.
April 22 is…
Earth Day Girl Scout Leader Day Jelly Bean Day
April 22 Birthday Quotes
“Technique is nothing more than failed style.” – John Waters
“The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn’t play.” – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
“I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.” – Steve Fossett
“You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers, and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!… but if it doesn’t hit with the public in two minutes, it’s bye-bye.” – Charlotte Rae
“Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there’s amazing blessings on the other side.” – Sherri Shepherd
April 22 Birthdays
1707 – Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (died in 1754) 1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (died in 1924) 1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (died in 1967) 1922 – Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died in 1979) 1923 – Bettie Page, American model and actress (died in 2008) 1926 – Charlotte Rae, American character actress (died in 2018) 1936 – Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter (died in 2017) 1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor 1944 – Steve Fossett, American businessman, pilot, and sailor (died in 2007) 1946 – John Waters, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1950 – Peter Frampton, English singer-songwriter 1951 – Paul Carrack, English singer-songwriter 1959 – Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress 1959 – Ryan Stiles, American-Canadian comedic actor 1966 – Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor 1967 – Sherri Shepherd, American actress and talk show panelist 1986 – Amber Heard, American actress
April 22 History
1056 – First seen July 2, 1054, the supernova in the Crab nebula was last seen by the naked eye.
1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés established a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandated that the inscription ‘In God We Trust’ would be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 – The first-ever National League baseball game was played in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Stockings. Boston won the game 6-5.
1912 – Pravda, the “voice” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, began publication in Saint Petersburg.
1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair opened for its first season.
1970 – Earth Day was started by John McConnell, Denis Hayes, Fred Kent, Pete Grannis, and Kristin and William Hubbard, and Ira Einhorn.
1978 – The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) made their first appearance on Saturday Night Live.
1983 – The German magazine Stern claims the “Hitler Diaries” was found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries were later revealed to be forgeries.
1989 – #1 Hit April 22, 1989 – May 12, 1989: Madonna – Like a Prayer
1993 – The Mosaic web browser is released.
1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened at Walt Disney World in Florida.
2000 – US Federal Agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, and sent him back to Cuba.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
The world record for keeping a pair of ferrets in your pants is 5 hours and 30 minutes. #ireadthatonline
The “M” in “MTV” now stands for “miscellaneous.”
Maybe Pokemon can speak perfect English, we’re just pronouncing their names slightly wrong and they’re constantly correcting us.
This stupid punctuation error, bothers me way too much.
If Homer Simpson were a Democratic congressman from Springfield, Ohio, he’d be “Homer Simpson (D-OH)”.
The cassette player Peter Quill/Star-Lord uses throughout Guardians of the Galaxy is a Sony TPS-L2, released in 1979.
Shoeless Joe Jackson was a lefthanded hitter, but Ray Liotta portrayed him as righty in “Field of Dreams.”
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” – George Burns
“What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.” #moviequotes
Notice the big letter on the face of the dollar bill? Each letter represents which Federal Reserve Bank printed it! “C” is for Philadelphia
My cat just started hissing at nothing in the kitchen. Based on horror movies, I know that no good can come of this, but I’m blonde, so I’ll stay. #thingsIlearnedatthemovies
1836 – The US Congress created the Wisconsin Territory.
1898 – President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for a declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolved, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
April 20, 19** Birthday (fictional) Barney Gumble, The Simpsons
If you were born on April 20th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 28th (prior year)
National Volunteer Day
Every year, on the 20th of April (International Volunteer Day), the world comes together to honor all volunteers. They are a varied group of people who dedicate themselves to causes and helping others in their lives around the globe. This appreciation is more valuable than ever as we’re living in a digitally connected world that can make volunteering even easier than it already was. #VolunteerRecognitionDay
April 20 is…
Food Day Look-Alike Day Lima Bean Respect Day Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day Teach Your Children To Save Day Volunteer Recognition Day
April 20 Birthday Quotes
“I’m not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I’m sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of a writer, so when I know I’m going to record, I get in the mood to write.” – Luther Vandross
“Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.” – Mother Angelica
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
“If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.” – George Takei
“One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.” – Carmen Electra
April 20 Birthdays
1889 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (died in 1945) 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American comedic actor and producer (died in 1971) 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American character actor (died in 1972) 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player, pianist, and bandleader(died in 2002) 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American character and voice actress (died in 1999) 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun, and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network (died in 2016) 1937 – George Takei, American actor 1941 – Ryan O’Neal, American actor 1943 – Edie Sedgwick, American model and actress (died in 1971) 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, English-American actress 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (died in 2005) 1964 – Crispin Glover, American character actor 1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor 1972 – Carmen Electra, American model and actress 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model 1989 – Carlos Valdes, Colombian-American actor
April 20 History
1657 – Freedom of religion was granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (New York City).
1832 – Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas was established as a reservation by an act of Congress. Technically, it was the first United States National Park.
1841 – The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allen Poe, was published in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. It is considered the first detective story.
1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard completed an experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
1871 – The Third Force Act, also known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law in stopping the Ku Klux Klan.
1862 – The first test of pasteurization was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. Jars at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences.
1912 – Opening day for baseball’s Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston.
1914 – The Ludlow Mine Incident: 17 miners and family members were killed by American National Guard troops.
1926 – Western Electric and the Warner Brothers film studio officially introduced Vitaphone, a new process that would enable the addition of sound to film.
1940 – Invented by Dr. Vladimir Zworykin at the RCA laboratories, Camden, New Jersey, the first (US) electron microscope was demonstrated across the Delaware River, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
April 20, 19** Birthday (fictional) Barney Gumble, The Simpsons, Cartoon
1964 – The first picturephone transcontinental call was made between New York City and Anaheim, California.
1974 – #1 Hit April 20, 1974 – May 3, 1974: MFSB and The Three Degrees – TSOP
1991 – #1 Hit April 20, 1991 – April 26, 1991: Wilson Phillips – You’re In Love
1999 – At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people and wounded 23 more before killing themselves.
2001 – Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles and Freddy Got Fingered were released in theaters.
2002 – #1 Hit April 20, 2002 – June 28, 2002: Ashanti – Foolish
2004 – Clifford’s Really Big Movie debuted in theaters.
2007 – Hot Fuzz, In the Land of Women and Fracture were released in theaters.
2008 – Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy Car race
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon, run by British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers.
2013 – #1 Hit April 20, 2013 – April 26, 2013: Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
A group of Snakes is called a Den or Nest or Pit or Bed or Knot.
John Stamos played drums in the Beach Boys’ music video for Kokomo.
“A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man” – Vito Corleone #moviequotes
1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1987 – The Simpsons first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show,
1993 – The Branch Davidian Fire, caused by federal agents at Waco, killed 86 people.
1995 – The Oklahoma City Bombing
If you were born on April 19th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 27th (prior year)
John Parker Day
John Parker was an American colonial farmer, smith, soldier, and colonial militia officer who commanded the Lexington, Patriot, colonial militia at the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, the first battle of America’s Revolutionary War. His order was: “Stand your ground. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on Wednesday, April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, the bombing happened at 9:02 am and killed at least 168 people, injured more than 680 others.
McVeigh chose April 19, 1995, as the date for the bombing to coincide with the second anniversary of the federal government’s assault on the Branch Davidians near Waco.
April 19 is…
Amaretto Day John Parker Day National High Five Day Garlic Day
April 19 Birthday Quotes
“The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.” – Tim Curry
“I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.” – James Franco
“You don’t wear stuff for other people; you’ve got to wear it for yourself.” – Kate Hudson
“If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don’t act like it wasn’t you.” – Suge Knight
“If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.” – Jayne Mansfield
April 19 Birthdays
1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (died in 1793) 1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (died in 1957) 1925 – Hugh O’Brian, American actor (died in 2016) 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (died in 1967) 1935 – Dudley Moore, English comedic actor and pianist (died in 2002) 1946 – Tim Curry, English actor 1958 – Stevie B, American singer-songwriter 1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress 1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
April 19 History
1775 – The American Revolution began in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1892 -The first Duryea automobile was operated by pioneer manufacturer Charles E. Duryea in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1897 – The first Boston Marathon was held.
1919 – Leslie Irvin made the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a self-contained parachute.
1927 – Mae West was sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex in New York. She served eight days with two days off for good behavior.
1956 – American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
April 19, 1959 Birthday (fictional) Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks, TV
1963 (Tornado) Cooch Behar, India.
1972 – Broadway Show – Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (Review) April 19, 1972
1975 – India’s first satellite, Aryabhata, was launched.
1977 – The Amazing Spider-Man debuted on CBS.
1980 – #1 Hit April 19, 1980 – May 30, 1980: Blondie – Call Me
1982 – NASA announced that the first black astronaut would be Guion S. Bluford, Jr., and the first woman astronaut would be Sally K. Ride.
1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents laid siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas.
1986 – #1 Hit April 19, 1986 – May 2, 1986: Prince and the Revolution – Kiss
1987 – The Tracey Ullman Show featured a short with The Simpsons.
1993 – At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the FBI launched a tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending with a fire that killed 81 members, including 22 children.
1995 – A massive truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people.
1996 – Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Substitute, Mrs. Winterbourne, and Celtic Pride were released in theaters.
2001- Broadway Show – The Producers (Musical) April 19, 2001
2009 – Cake Boss premiered on TLC.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Read more… especially things you disagree with.
When spoken, the words “blend together” blend together.
If the sun exploded 7.5 minutes ago, no one would know for another 30 seconds.
80’s computers typically had 64 KB (yes, Kilobytes) of memory.
Pinocchio is loosely based on the Italian children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, published in 1883.
Maureen O’Hara – Real Name: Maureen Fitzsimmons
“I guess it’s just my morbid personality.” – Plato #moviequotes
Goofus’ first move should really be to change his name.
Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the world without a river.
“The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.” – Eddie Van Halen
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” – Margo Channing – (Bette Davis) #moviequotes
Mitch Hedberg would have been the king of Twitter.
1906 – The San Francisco Earthquake killed nearly 4,000 people.
1925 – The International Amateur Radio Union formed in Paris.
1946 – The International Court of Justice held its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1955 – Indonesia’s President Sukarno first used the term “third world” at the Bandung conference.
If you were born on April 18th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 26th (prior year)
Animal Cracker Day
Stauffer’s Biscuit Company was the first company to produce animal crackers in 1871 in York, Pennsylvania. Other local bakeries soon came together under the National Biscuit Company, or “Nabisco Brands.”
In 1902, Nabisco’s animal crackers officially became known as “Barnum’s Animals” and used the circus theme of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Later in 1902, the box was designed for the Christmas season with the innovative idea of attaching a string to hang from the Christmas tree. The Pop Culture Animal Crackers are a deliciously crunchy snack perfect for munching on at home, in the office, or even out on the go.
April 18 is…
Animal Cracker Day Columnist Day International Amateur Radio Day Velociraptor Awareness Day
April 18 Birthday Quotes
“Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.” – David Tennant
“Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.” – Conan O’Brien
“If you’re a young person who wants to become an actor, it’s really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you’ve even said a word!” – Kenny Ortega
“What we see is what they’re trying to sell us.” – Rick Moranis
“I have the same attitude with work – I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.” – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
April 18 Birthdays
1857 – Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (died in 1938) 1882 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (died in 1977) 1916 – Carl Burgos, American comic book illustrator (died in 1984) 1919 – Virginia O’Brien, American character actress and singer (died in 2001) 1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress (died in 2017) 1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress 1950 – Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer 1953 – Rick Moranis, Canadian-American comedic actor 1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor 1961 – Jane Leeves, English actress 1962 – Jeff Dunham, American comedian and ventriloquist 1963 – Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor 1963 – Conan O’Brien, American actor, screenwriter, and talk show host 1967 – Maria Bello, American actress 1971 – David Tennant, Scottish actor, The Tenth Doctor 1976 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress 1979 – Kourtney Kardashian, American model and businesswoman 1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model and actress 1987 – Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter
April 18 History
1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica was laid.
1738 – Real Academia de la Historia (“Royal Academy of History”) was founded in Madrid, Spain.
1775 – Paul Revere’s Ride took place. He probably said “The Regulars are coming out” subtly since there were British Troops everywhere.
1846 – The first US Patent (#4,464) for a telegraph ticker that would print letters of the alphabet was issued to R.E. House of New York City.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, was destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 (Earthquake) At 5:13 AM, an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale struck San Francisco, California.
1909 – Joan of Arc was beatified by the Catholic Church, the first step towards sainthood. Pope Benedict XV canonized Joan on May 16, 1920.
1923 – Yankee Stadium, ‘The House that Ruth Built,’ opened.
1924 – Simon & Schuster published the first crossword puzzle book.
1925 – The first Woman’s World’s Fair in the US was officially opened in Chicago, Illinois, by First Lady Mrs. Calvin Coolidge.
1930 – BBC reported there was no news, and then played out with piano music.
1966 – James M. Schlatter applied for a Patent (#3,492,131) for Peptide Sweetening Agents, an invention that eventually led to the marketing of aspartame under the name NutraSweet
1983 – The Disney Channel began as a cable channel
1983 – A suicide bomber destroyed the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1987 – #1 Hit April 18, 1987 – May 1, 1987: Aretha Franklin and George Michael – I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me)
1989 – In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), student protests grew until the Chinese government eventually suppressed them in June, during what came to be known as the Tienanmen Square Massacre.
1994 – Broadway Show – Beauty and the Beast (Musical) April 18, 1994
1995 – Rox became the first television show distributed via the internet.
2003 – Holes and Malibu’s Most Wanted were released in theaters.
2008 – Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Forbidden Kingdom, 88 Minutes and Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed debuted in theaters.
2009 – #1 Hit April 18, 2009 – July 10, 2009: The Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
2007 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, killed 198 and injured 251 people.
2012 – Dick Clark, the host of American Bandstand and New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, died.
2013 – A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe killed 27 and injured another 65 people.
2014 – 16 people were killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.
#1 Hit April 18, 2020 – April 24, 2020: Toosie Slide – Drake
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
A group of Ships is called a Fleet.
Bad luck comes in threes, but the 3rd time’s the charm.
“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.” – Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) #moviequotes
Fake living rooms at IKEA should also have a couple in them trying to assemble IKEA furniture and fighting.
“Every girl’s crazy ’bout a shot glass man” #misunderstoodlyrics
“Books, records, films—these things matter. Call me shallow but it’s the fuckin’ truth.” – Rob in High Fidelity #moviequotes
A group of Squirrels is called a Dray or Scurry
An average storm cloud weighs 105.8 million pounds.
“Punctuation, is? fun!’ – Daniel Keyes
Every time I hear or see anything about fossil fuels, I always think of dinosaurs.
You can’t feel if your hair is hot or cold… because if you touch it it’s always hair temperature.
Patrick Star is stupid because he ‘lives under a rock.’
1521 – The trial of Martin Luther over his teachings began during the assembly of the Diet of Worms.
1961 – The Bay of Pigs Invasion
2014 – NASA’s Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet, Kepler-186f.
April 17, 19** Birthday (fictional) Daffy Duck, Cartoon
If you were born on April 17th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 25th (prior year)
Bat Appreciation Day
There are many fun ways to celebrate National Bat Appreciation Day, whether you head outdoors or hang out at home. It is the bat’s sonar that helps farmers by eating pesky insects and plants harmful to crops. But what’s coolest about bats? They only make up 1% of all mammals yet comprise 20% of all mammals in existence today! The Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) lives across much of North America, with populations spreading northward from Mexico into Canada and as far eastward as Florida. Their range also includes eastern Asia including Cuba and the Philippines.
April 17 is…
Bat Appreciation Day Cheese Ball Day Ellis Island Family History Day Haiku Poetry Day Herbalist Day
April 17 Birthday Quotes
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.” – J.P. Morgan
“I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.” – Victoria Beckham
“I’m so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me.” – Roddy Piper
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.” – J.P. Morgan
“The first thing that you should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.” – Rod Steiger
“I’m the reason Hulk Hogan lost his hair.” – Roddy Piper
April 17 Birthdays
1837 – J.P. Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (died in 1913) 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (died in 1975) 1918 – William Holden, American actor (died in 1981) 1923 – Harry Reasoner, American TV Journalist (died in 1991) 1925 – Rod Steiger, American character actor (died in 2002) 1934 – Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (died in 2011) 1948 – Jan Hammer, Czech pianist, composer, and producer 1951 – Olivia Hussey, Argentinian-English actress 1954 – Roddy Piper, Canadian professional wrestler and actor (died in 2015) 1957 – Afrika Bambaataa, American disc jockey 1972 – Jennifer Garner, American actress 1974 – Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer
April 17 History
1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
April 17, 1775 (fiction) The Continental Congress declared that New Jersey was the ‘Official Joke State’, Futurama, Cartoon
1815 (Volcano) Tambora volcano in Indonesia killed almost 100,000 people.
1861 – The state of Virginia’s secession convention voted to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.
1861 – The first oil well fire occurred at the Little and Merrick well at Oil Creek, near Rouseville, Pennsylvania, killing 19 people.
1897 – A UFO supposedly crashed into a farm owned by J.S. Proctor in Aurora, Texas.
1906 – A disastrous earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.8 hit San Francisco.
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center in New York processed 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
April 17, 19** Birthday (fictional) Daffy Duck, Cartoon Daffy Duck’s first appearance was in Porky’s Duck Hunt.
1960 – Singer Eddie Cochran died, and Gene Vincent was injured in a UK car accident.
1961 – The unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion began.
1964 – Geraldine ‘Jerrie’ Mock landed in Columbus, Ohio, becoming the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world.
1964 – The Ford Mustang was introduced to the North American market.
1966 – Policemen Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported chasing a UFO at 5:00 AM in Portage County, Ohio.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1971 – #1 Hit April 17, 1971 – May 28, 1971: Three Dog Night – Joy to the World
1973 (Tornado) Balurchar, Bangladesh
1979 – The worst attended MLB game occurred in Oakland on 4/17/1979 – Only 250 people showed up.
1987 – Project X was released in theaters.
2011 – Game of Thrones premiered on HBO
2014 – NASA’s Kepler confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
2015 – Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and Unfriended debuted in theaters.
April 17, 2021 – April 23, 2021: Leave the Door Open – Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak)
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Girls named after fruit are easy. #moviecliches
The world’s longest-running laboratory experiment “demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar once used for waterproofing boats.” In 1930 pitch was left in a glass funnel to drip out and has only dropped 9 times: about once every 10 years, most recently on April 17, 2014.
“Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.” – Dr. Phillip C. McGraw
DJ/MC Dick Clark’s middle name was Wagstaff.
“All I want is to have my peace of mind.” #songlyrics
If your shirt isn’t tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.
If the United States grew to have 53 states. We would literally be one nation, indivisible. #math
The first animated full-color movie produced was 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The light sent out by that bright flashlight I held towards the sky as a kid is probably 45 light-years away by now.
Plagiarism is passing off another’s work as your own. Forgery is passing off your own work as another’s.
It is illegal to bring beer into Pennsylvania without holding a distributor’s license.
“This is my brain and I live in it, it’s made of love and bad song lyrics.” #songlyrics
1862 – Emancipation Day – Abraham Lincoln freed 3,1000 slaves in Washington DC.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.
1946 – The United States Army liberated Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Colditz, aka Oflag IV-C.
1947 – Bernard Baruch first used the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1961 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
If you were born on April 16th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 24th (prior year)
Save The Elephant Day
The goal of Save the Elephant Day is to promote awareness of the endangered Asian and African elephants in an effort to help them survive. The Save The Elephant Day was created as a way for people around the world to combine their efforts and show concern for these incredible animals. Through public outreach and collaborative work, we can financially support no-hunting zones, collaborate on scientific research projects, provide education about environmental conservation so that future generations will continue this tradition of love for nature.
April 16 is…
Day of the Mushroom Eggs Benedict Day Save the Elephant Day Stress Awareness Day Wear Pajamas to Work Day
April 16 Birthday Quotes
“We haven’t got a plan so nothing can go wrong!” – Spike Milligan
“Sometimes the truth don’t rhyme.”} – Chance the Rapper
“The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live every day with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.” – Charlie Chaplin
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Actors always have things that they’re not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.” – Jon Cryer
“Two Things that Define Success In Life – The way you manage when you have nothing and the way you behave when you have everything.” – Akon
April 16 Birthdays
1660 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (died in 1753) 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (died in 1977) 1917 – Barry Nelson, American character actor (died in 2007) 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish actor, comedian, and writer (died in 2002) 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor (died in 2004) 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (died in 1994) 1930 – Herbie Mann, American composer (died in 2003) 1934 – Robert Stigwood, Australian producer and manager (died in 2016) 1935 – Bobby Vinton, American singer 1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (died in 1999) 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (died in 2011) 1952 – Bill Belichick, American football player 1954 – Ellen Barkin, American actress 1965 – Jon Cryer, American actor 1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor 1973 – Akon, Senegalese-American singer and rapper 1976 – Lukas Haas, American character actor and musician 1984 – Claire Foy, English actress 1993 – Chance the Rapper, American rapper 1996 – Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress
April 16 History
73 AD Masada, a Jewish fortress, fell to the Romans after several months of siege.
1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, gunslinger Bat Masterson fought his last gun battle. He paid an $8 fine and retired.
1908 Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.
1910 The Boston Arena opened.
1912 American aviator Harriet Quimby became the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel. She was also the first US-licensed female pilot.
1943 Albert Hoffmann accidentally discovered the psychedelic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
1947 The Texas City Disaster, an ammonium nitrate explosion, killed 571 people.
1947 Bernard Baruch, in a speech given during the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina House of Representatives, coined the term ‘Cold War to describe relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1962 Walter Cronkite became the news anchor for the CBS network.
1972 Apollo 16 (April 16-27, 1972) Crew: John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly, and Charles M. Duke
1977 #1 Hit April 16, 1977 – April 22, 1977: David Soul – Don’t Give Up on Us
1990 ‘Doctor Death,’ Jack Kevorkian, participated in his first assisted suicide. Janet Adkins was the patient in Detroit, Michigan.
1995 Governor George W. Bush named April 16 Selena Day in Texas after the singer was killed two weeks earlier.
2005 April 16, 2005 (fiction) Bruce Banner becomes The Hulk, The Hulk, Marvel Cinematic Universe
2007 Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and injured 17 before his suicide.
2012 The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, and it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2022 #1 Hit April 16, 2022 – April 22, 2022: As It Was – Harry Styles
2151 April 16, 2151 (fiction) Enterprise NX-01 was launched, Star Trek: Enterprise
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
A group of Sharks is called a Shiver or School or Shoal.
“Round up the usual suspects.” – Capt. Louis Renault (Claude Rains) #moviequotes
“There’ll be peace when you are done, lay your weary head to rest, don’t you cry no more.” #songlyrics
TV shows like NCIS and CSI are basically the grown-up versions of Scooby-Doo.
“I am perplexed. Get Satan out!” – Aleister Crowley (famous occultist) #LastWords
“It’s kinda like a new pair of underwear. At first, it’s constrictive, but after a while, it becomes a part of you.” – Garth Algar #moviequotes
“Ssshhhhh… He’s asleep” is a consideration. “Ssshhhhh… He’s awake” is a conspiracy.
The female equivalent of a “dude” is a “dudine,” not a “dudette.” #really?
Based on the number of times I’ve failed those captcha tests, I’m not entirely convinced that I’m not a robot.
If dogs played poker, the ones with long tails would always lose.
I love how when you drop something small and take your eyes off it for one second it immediately transports you to an alternate universe.
1947 – Jackie Robinson, became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1989 – 96 fans were killed in The Hillsborough Tragedy in Sheffield, England with poor crowd control planning at a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
2013 – The Boston marathon Bombing killed three people and injured 260 runners and supporters.
If you were born on April 15th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 23rd (prior year)
April 15 is…
Glazed Spiral Ham Day Jackie Robinson Day Laundry Day Tax Day Titanic Remembrance Day World Art Day
#42 Jackie Robinson was the first African American player to play in Major League Baseball and broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Jackie Robinson Day is celebrated every April 15th, which is Jackie’s birthday.
US Tax Trivia
The Gettysburg address is 269 words, the Declaration of Independence is 1,337 words, and the Holy Bible is only 773,000 words. However, the tax law has grown from 11,400 words in 1913, to over 7 million words today.
There are at least 480 different tax forms, each with many pages of instructions. Even the easiest form, the 1040E has 33 pages of instructions and all in fine print.
The IRS sends out 8 billion pages of forms and instructions each year. Laid end to end, they would stretch 28 times around the earth.
Nearly 300,000 trees are cut down yearly to produce the paper for all the IRS forms and instructions. The total number of computers thrown out the window, or kicked with a frustrated foot is unknown.
American taxpayers spend $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working to comply with federal taxes each year, more than it takes to produce every car, truck, and van in the United States.
The IRS employs 114,000 people; that’s twice as many as the CIA and five times more than the FBI.
60% of taxpayers must hire a professional to get through their own return.
Taxes eat up nearly 40% of the average family’s income; that’s more than for food, clothing and shelter combined.
Tax Freedom Day
Tax Freedom Day is the day that the money that you earn that particular year, on average, stops going into the government’s pocket and starts going into yours. Tax Freedom Day By Year: April 17, 2021 April 15, 2020 April 16, 2019 April 19, 2018 April 23, 2017 April 24, 2016 April 24, 2015 April 21, 2014 April 18, 2013 April 13, 2012 April 12, 2011 April 9, 2010 April 8, 2009 April 16, 2008 April 24, 2007 April 26, 2006 April 21, 2005 April 15, 2004 April 14, 2003 April 17, 2002 April 27, 2001 May 1, 2000
Tax Day Jokes
The IRS decides to audit Ralph, and summons him to the IRS office. The IRS auditor is not surprised when Ralph shows up with his attorney.
The auditor says, “Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I’m not sure the IRS finds that believable.” “I’m a great gambler, and I can prove it,” says Ralph. “How about a demonstration?” The auditor thinks for a moment and said, “Okay. Go ahead.”
Ralph says, “I’ll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.” The auditor thinks a moment and says, “No way! It’s a bet.”
Ralph removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor’s jaw drops. Ralph says, “Now, I’ll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.” The auditor can tell Ralph isn’t blind, so he takes the bet. Ralph removes his dentures and bites his good eye. The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Ralph’s attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.
“Want to go double or nothing?” Ralph asks. “I’ll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.”
The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there’s no way this guy can manage that stunt, so he agrees again. Ralph stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can’t make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the desk.
The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win. But Ralph’s attorney moans and puts his head in his hands. “Are you okay?” the auditor asks. “Not really,” says the attorney. “This morning, when Ralph told me he’d been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty thousand dollars that he could come in here and pee all over an IRS official’s desk and that you’d be happy about it.” ____________________
A businessman on his deathbed called his friend and said, “Bill, I want you to promise me that when I die you will have my remains cremated.” “And what,” his friend asked, “do you want me to do with your ashes?” The businessman said, “Just put them in an envelope and mail them to the Internal Revenue Service. Write on the envelope, “Now, you have everything.” ____________________
“To you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income taxes can be a ‘pain in the neck,’ the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life.” – Dave Barry
“The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” -Ronald Reagan
April 15 Birthday Quotes
“There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.” – Emma Watson
“You want to create an environment where we’re fostering ideas, not rejecting them.” – Seth Rogen
“I don’t want no drummer. I set the tempo.” – Bessie Smith
“I’m scared of the interviews…I’m scared of having to get up on stage again. I’m scared of the critique. I’m scared right now of doing this again. But that’s why I have to do it, I think.” – Linda Perry
“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.” – Emma Thompson
“The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.” – Charles Willson Peale
April 15 Birthdays
1741 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter and soldier (died in 1827) 1875 – James J. Jeffries, American boxer and promoter (died in 1953) 1894 – Bessie Smith, African-American singer and actress (died in 1937) 1903 – John Williams, English-American character actor (died in 1983) 1912 – Kim Il-sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (died in 1994) 1917 – Hans Conried, American voice actor (died in 1982) 1933 – Roy Clarke, American musician and television personality (died in 2018) 1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (died in 1995) 1938 – Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress 1947 – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American screenwriter and producer 1948 – Michael Kamen, American composer and conductor (died in 2003) 1959 – Emma Thompson, English actress 1962 – Tom Kane, American voice actor 1965 – Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter 1966 – Samantha Fox, English model and singer-songwriter 1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1990 – Emma Watson, English actress
April 15 History
*We pay money in taxes to people who decided the amount of money we pay to them in taxes.
1755 – Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London.
1817 – The Erie Canal was authorized, to link between Buffalo on Lake Erie and the Hudson River at Albany New York,
1892 – The Edison General Electric Company (General Electric Company) was formed.
1912 – Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Newfoundland & Nova Scotia, Canada, after hitting an iceberg the night before.
1912 – The fourth dimension was referred to ‘as Time’ by Albert Einstein.
1923 – Insulin became available for use by people with diabetes.
1924 – Rand McNally published its first road atlas.
1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 began.
1941 – Igor Ivor Sikorsky made the first helicopter flight over one-hour duration in his Vought-Sikorsky VS-300.
1950 – #1 Hit April 15, 1950 – April 28, 1950: Eileen Barton – If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake
April 15, 1951, 19** Birthday (fictional) Marge Simpson, The Simpsons, TV
1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
1955 – McDonald’s opened its first franchised restaurant, owned by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1964 – Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel was opened to traffic, connecting the Eastern Shore to Virginia Beach.
1967 – #1 Hit April 15, 1967 – May 12, 1967: Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra – Somethin’ Stupid
1972 – #1 Hit April 15, 1972 – May 26, 1972: Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
1983 – Tokyo Disneyland opened to the public.
1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day was held in Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City.
1989 – #1 Hit April 15, 1989 – April 21, 1989: Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy
1993 – Benny and Joon and Boiling Point were released in theaters.
1995 – #1 Hit April 15, 1995 – June 2, 1995: Montell Jordan – This Is How We Do It
2004 – Kill Bill vol 2 and The Punisher debuted in theaters.
2010 – Kick-Ass and Death at a Funeral were released in theaters.
April 15, 2011, Lemonade Mouth aired on The Disney Channel
2013 – At approximately 2:50 PM (EDT), in a terrorist attack, two explosions around Copley Square were caught live on camera during the telecast of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring 260.
2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France was seriously damaged by a large fire
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
J.P. Morgan of JPMorgan and Chase Co. Banking and Milton Hershey of Hershey’s Chocolate were both in Europe and planned to travel back to the US on Titanic’s Maiden Voyage but made other plans.
“Be happy without picking flaws.” – Victor Hugo
“I’ll have what she’s having.” – Customer (Estelle Reiner) #moviequotes
The Powerpuff Girls get their power from Chemical X, as in the X Chromosome. Their power is girl power.
We have become such a civilized species that we need to emulate manual labor, by working out, to keep ourselves healthy.
“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.” – Sam Levenson
A group of Donkeys is called a Drove or Pace or Herd.
“Wikipedia is the first place I go when I’m looking for knowledge… or when I want to create some.” – Stephen Colbert
“Yabba dabba do!” – Fred Flintstone (The Flintstones)
Little Richard – Real Name: Richard Wayne Pennyman
The director of ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie.
Who is this Rorschach guy? And why does he have pictures of my parents fighting?
“If you could be anything you wanted to be, you’d be disappointed.” #songlyrics
The reason grass makes you itch is because it actually cuts your skin with its serrated edges.
1561 – A ‘celestial phenomenon’ is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial UFO battle.
1828 – Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1933 – Jack Mackay and his wife reported seeing the Loch Ness Monster- and that got the whole modern lake monster thing started.
If you were born on April 14th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 22nd (prior year)
April 14 is…
Be Kind to Lawyers Day Dolphin Day Ex-Spouse Day Moment of Laughter Day Look up the Sky Day Pecan Day Reach as High as You Can Day
Cecil Chubb’s Stonehenge
In late September 1915, Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for £6,600, a little less than a million in today’s dollars, as a gift for his wife. The area is about 6400 acres. Mrs. Chubb was not happy. According to legend, she wanted curtains. We can only assume she later got her curtains and a lifetime of apologies. He donated Stonehenge to the UK in 1918, with the provision that locals could always visit it for free. They still can, but it’ll cost tourists about $25.00.
April 14 Birthday Quotes
“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.” – Anne Sullivan Macy
“You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.” – John Gielgud
“In the long run, you make your own luck – good, bad, or indifferent.” – Loretta Lynn
“You’d be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.” – Pete Rose
“Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.” – Peter Capaldi
“A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.” – Anthony Michael Hall
April 14 Birthdays
1866 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (died in 1936) 1876 – Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one-time owner of Stonehenge (died in 1934) 1904 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (died in 2000 1922 – Audrey Long, American character actress (died in 2014) 1925 – Rod Steiger, American actor (died in 2002) 1932 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter 1940 – Julie Christie, English actress 1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player 1949 – Dave Gibbons, English comic book author and illustrator 1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish character actor, The Twelfth Doctor 1961 – Robert Carlyle, Scottish character actor 1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress 1977 – Rob McElhenney, American actor and producer 1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
April 14 History
1775 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1863 – The US Patent (No. 38,200) for a continuous-roll printing press was issued to William Bullock, enabling two sides of a newspaper to be printed at once. It was first used by the New York Sun.
1865 – John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play (Our American Cousin) at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC.
1881 – Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight occurred on El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas. Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire accounted for three of the four fatalities with his twin .44 caliber Colt revolvers.
1900 – The Exposition Universelle began in Paris, France.
1912 – RMS Titanic hit an iceberg, killing 1514 people that evening, and into the next day.
1927 – The first Volvo car was presented in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1933 – Jack Mackay and his wife reported seeing the Loch Ness Monster – ‘Nessie’, although the earliest report was in 565 AD when St. Columbia turned away a giant beast that was threatening a man in the Ness River, which flows into the lake.
1935 – ‘Black Sunday Storm’ – the worst dust storm of the US Dust Bowl, hit from the Oklahoma Panhandle and Northwestern Oklahoma to the Texas Panhandles. The Duststorm of April 14th, 1935 is also immortalized in the Woody Guthrie song “Dusty Old Dust” aka “So long been good to know you.”
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was first published by the Viking Press.
1953 – The CIA started to give unwitting subjects LSD in a search for a mind-controlling drug.
1960 – Broadway Show – Bye Bye Birdie (Musical) opened on April 14, 1960
1961 – The man-made element 103 – Lawrencium (Lw), was produced in the US by Albert Ghiorso, Torbjørn Sikkeland, Almon Larsh and Robert M. Latimer.
1969 (Tornado) East Pakistan, Pakistan
April 14, 1969 – 33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee aired live on NBC
1969 – Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) tied for Best Actress Oscar.
1979 – #1 Hit April 14, 1979 – April 20, 1979: The Doobie Brothers – What a Fool Believes
1984 – My Little Pony premiered, in syndication
1990 – #1 Hit April 14, 1990 – April 20, 1990: Tommy Page – I’ll Be Your Everything
1990 – In Living Color premiered on FOX
1992 – Broadway Show – Guys and Dolls (Musical) April 14, 1992
1994 – The 24-hour movie channel Turner Classic Movies made its debut.
1995 – Stuart Saves His Family was released in theaters.
2000 – 28 Days, American Psycho, and Keeping the Faith debuted in theaters.
2001 – April 14, 2001 – June 1, 2001: Janet Jackson – All For You
2003 – The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2006 – The Notorious Bettie Page, Scary Movie 4, Kinky Boots, and The Wild were released in theaters.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Whether you’re going the speed limit, under the speed limit, or over the speed limit, someone is going to be irritated with you.
Batman’s Arkham Asylum gets its name from the Arkham Sanitarium from the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, created by H.P. Lovecraft.
The Capital of New Zealand is Wellington
The biggest film of 1954: White Christmas (Musical) earned ~ $30,000,000
In the United States tomatoes are legally a vegetable, as established in 1893 by a unanimous Supreme Court decision.
“FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
History classes are only going to get longer and harder as time goes on.
Dr. James C. Munch testified in court, under oath, that he had smoked marijuana, and it turned him into a bat. Dr. Munch was the “official expert” on marijuana for the U.S. government from 1938 to 1962.
“He was brutally handsome and she was terminally pretty.” #songlyrics
Lisztomania was the intense hysterical reaction of fans at pianist Franz List’s concerts in the 1800s.
There are probably millions (if not billions of un-closed parentheses lying around in notes, texts, and websites all over the world.
Years ending in “00” are skipped for Leap Years, except every 400 years (2000, 2400, 2800, etc).
1962 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
1964 – Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film, Lilies of the Field.
1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note.
If you were born on April 13th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 21st (prior year)
April 13 is…
Make Lunch Count Day Peach Cobbler Day Plant Appreciation Day Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday Scrabble Day
April 13 Birthday Quotes
“When the people are afraid of the government, that’s tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that’s liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.” – Samuel Beckett
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.” – Guy Fawkes
“Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.” – Al Green
“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.” – Seamus Heaney
“There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn’t let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I’d changed.” – Ricky Schroder
April 13 Birthdays
1570 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier, planned the Gunpowder Plot (died in 1606) 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States (died in 1826) 1866 – Butch Cassidy, American criminal (died in 1908) 1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (died in 1993) 1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1989) 1919 – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, American activist, founded American Atheists (died in 1995) 1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor 1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet (died in 2013) 1946 – Al Green, American singer-songwriter and pastor 1947 – Mike Chapman, Australian-English songwriter and producer 1949 – Christopher Hitchens, English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (died in 2011) 1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor 1951 – Peter Davison, English actor, The Fifth Doctor 1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian comedic actress 1970 – Ricky Schroder, American actor 1975 – Lou Bega, German singer-songwriter 1988 – Allison Williams, American actress and singer 2004 – Brooklyn Nelson, American actress
April 13 History
1204 – Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade.
1360 – On “Black Monday,” a hail storm killed 1,000 English soldiers and 6,000 horses. Edward III, fearing it a sign from God, paused the Hundred Years’ War.
1570 – Guy Fawkes was born (died in 1606)
1742 – Handel’s Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act gave Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in the UK’s Parliament.
1869 – The first US Patent (#88,929) for an air brake was issued to George Westinghouse of Schenectady, N.Y., called an “Improvement in steam-power-brake devices”.
1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded.
1902 – James C. Penney (now Penneys) opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1961 – Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space.
If you were born on April 12th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 20th (prior year)
April 12 is…
Day of Human Space Flight Day Drop Everything and Read Day Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day Licorice Day Yuri’s Night
April 12 Birthday Quotes
“Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.” – Henry Clay
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy
“I’d love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I’d also like just one more hit single.” – Tiny Tim
“The devaluation of music and what it’s now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single cost 99 cents. That’s what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises – the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It’s an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.” – Vince Gill
“Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.” – Herbie Hancock
April 12 Birthdays
1777 – Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (died in 1852) 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor and director (died in 1918) 1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (died in 1991) 1923 – Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (died in 2004) 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer and ukulele player (died in 1996) 1936 – Charles Napier, American character actor (died in 2011) 1940 – Herbie Hancock, American pianist and composer 1946 – Ed O’Neill, American comedic actor 1947 – Tom Clancy, American author (died in 2013) 1947 – David Letterman, American talk show host 1950 – David Cassidy, American singer-songwriter (died in 2017) 1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1956 – Andy Garcia, Cuban-American actor 1957 – Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter 1971 – Shannon Doherty, American actress 1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American comic book author and illustrator 1979 – Claire Danes, American actress 1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress 1987 – Brooklyn Decker, American model 1994 – Saoirse Ronan, American-born Irish actress
April 12 History
1606 – The Union Jack (the Union Flag) was adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1633 – Galileo was convicted of heresy, for announcing that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
1892 – The first US Patent (#472,692) for a portable typewriter, the Blickensderfer, was issued to George Blickensderfer of Stamford, Connecticut.
1914 – Mark Strand Theatre opened in New York City. It was the first official “movie theater.”
1934 – The strongest surface wind gust ever recorded on Earth, at 231 mph, was measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt died while in office and Vice President Harry Truman became President upon Roosevelt’s death.
1969 – #1 Hit April 12, 1969 – May 23, 1969: The 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
1974 – #1 Hit April 13, 1974 – April 19, 1974: Elton John – Bennie and the Jets
1975 – #1 Hit April 12, 1975 – April 25, 1975: Elton John – Philadelphia Freedom
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia), named NASA’s STS-1 mission.
1985 – Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Ladyhawke, and Cat’s Eye were released in theaters.
1987 – 21 Jump Street premiered on FOX.
1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opened with its theme park Euro Disneyland. It was later renamed Disneyland Paris.
1994 – Laurence Canter created a software program that flooded Usenet message boards with a notice for the ‘Green Card Lottery’ to solicit business for his law firm of Canter & Siegel, in an early instance of commercial spam.
1995 – Drew Barrymore appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and, because it was his birthday, she danced on his desk and flashed him on the air.
1996 – James and the Giant Peach, Fear, and Jane Eyre debuted in theaters.
2008 – #1 Hit April 12, 2008 – May 2, 2008: Mariah Carey – Touch My Body
2013 – 42 and Scary Movie 5 were released in theaters.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
I wonder if the reason aliens haven’t attacked us is that fiction is unique to human culture, and so they catch out movies floating around in space and think they’re seeing actual footage of us flying spaceships and wielding magic and all-around being unstoppable.
The formal name for the # symbol, commonly called the “hashtag” thanks to its widespread use in social media, is actually an “octothorpe.” #hashtag #octothorpe
The Capital of Nicaragua is Managua
The first victim of the Great Plague of London was Margaret Ponteous on April 12, 1665.
The Biggest film of 1956: The Ten Commandments (Drama) earned ~ $80,000,000
Boren’s Laws of the Bureaucracy: When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate. When in charge, ponder.
If you don’t want me stopping by for cake and ice cream, you probably shouldn’t advertise your birthday with balloons and a banner on your mailbox.
The ‘Happy Birthday’ song was placed into the public domain in September 2015.
“As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.” – The Wizard
“Give a man a mask and he will show his true face” – Oscar Wilde
The Seven Virtues #2- Hope is taking a positive future view, that goodwill prevails.
1945 – American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.
1965 – Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1970 – Apollo 13 launched.
If you were born on April 11th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 19th (prior year)
April 11, 1954 – The Most Boring Day ever?
A search engine known as True Knowledge, compiled the data and was able to determine that the most boring day in history occurred on April 11, 1954. They analyzed more than 300 million historical facts and discovered that April 11, 1954 was the most uneventful news day of the 20th century. No typical newsworthy events occurred at all, of course now the day has become a bit more newsworthy, because we can talk about that very boring day.
Baseball Season hadn’t started yet – but the day before, on April 10th, Japan Won the WORLD Table Tennis Title over Sweden at Wembley Stadium in London, and that was the biggest news in that morning’s headlines.
April 11 is…
Barbershop Quartet Day Cheese Fondue Day Farm Animals Day Golfer’s Day Hug Your Dog Day Louie Louie Day Pet Day Siblings Day Submarine Day
April 11 Birthday Quotes
“A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.” – John Milius
“Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.” – Jeremy Clarkson
“For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You’re only on this earth once. You must give it all you’ve got.” – Ethel Kennedy
“We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.” – Jeremy Clarkson
“If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can’t so I sing songs.” – Joss Stone
“Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don’t want to learn those skills.” – John Milius
April 11 Birthdays
1755 – James Parkinson, English surgeon and paleontologist (died in 1824) 1907 – Paul Douglas, American actor (died in 1959) 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, American philanthropist 1928 – Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (died in 2013) 1932 – Joel Grey, American actor, singer, and dancer 1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist and academic 1935 – Richard Berry, American singer-songwriter, wrote ‘Louie Louie’ (died in 1997) 1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress 1943 – Harley Race, American wrestler and trainer (died in 2019) 1944 – John Milius, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter 1961 – Vincent Gallo, American actor, director and producer 1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer-songwriter 1972 – Jennifer Esposito, American actress 1981 – Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model 1984 – Kelli Garner, American actress 1987 – Joss Stone, English singer-songwriter 1987 – Lights, Canadian singer-songwriter
April 11 History
1876 The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.
1876 The stenotype was patented (#175,892) by John C. Zachos of New York City
1909 Tel Aviv was founded.
1919 The International Labor Organization(IOL) was founded.
1945 The American Third Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.
1957 The Ryan X-13 Vertijet became the first jet to take off and land vertically at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
1963 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) – the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
1964 (Tornado) Bhabanipur, Bangladesh
1970 #1 Hit April 11, 1970 – April 24, 1970: The Beatles – Let It Be
1970 Apollo 13 (April 11-17, 1970) Crew: James Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise
1976 The Apple Computer 1 (Apple I) was created. They were initially all hand-built by Steve Wozniak.
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was deposed.
1981 #1 Hit April 11, 1981 – May 1, 1981: Daryl Hall and John Oates – Kiss on My List
Van Halen’s lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen married One Day at a Time actress Valerie Bertinelli
1988 Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in 1987’s Moonstruck.
1989 The Philadelphia Flyers’ Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
1991 Broadway Show – Miss Saigon (Musical) April 11, 1991
1997 Anaconda and Grosse Point Blank were released in theaters.
2001 Joe Dirt, Kingdom Come, and Josie and the Pussycats debuted in theaters.
2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched uranium.
2009 #1 Hit April 11, 2009 – April 17, 2009: Lady Gaga – Poker Face
2013 Broadway Show – Matilda the Musical (Musical) April 11, 2013
2014 Rio 2, Draft Day, and Oculus were released in theaters.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.
Viewed from the scale of the entire universe, the speed of light is incredibly slow. So slow that, from that perspective, everything in existence is essentially motionless.
The Garfield comic strip debuted on June 19, 1978.
My father couldn’t control himself around an open bag of chips. I can’t control myself around an open bottle of vodka. My family’s weakness is potatoes.
The Capital of Trinidad and Tobago is Port-of-Spain
Olivia Wilde – Real Name: Olivia Jane Cockburn
Car alarms are no longer effective. Instead of assuming someone is breaking into a car I naturally assume some idiot accidentally clicked his button.
My total at Seven-Eleven today was $7.11. I feel like I should have won a prize or something. #noprize?
New Warrior Squirrel Girl is actually one of the most powerful superheroes in the Marvel universe, defeating both Doctor Doom and Thanos.
There are no Sour Patch Adults because we eat them all when they’re kids.
One galactic year (our solar system around the Milky way) is 250 million Earth years. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Earth is only 18 galactic years old!
Little round donuts are called “donut holes” even though that’s pretty much the opposite of what they are.
1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City.
1963 – The submarine USS Thresher sank, killing 129 American sailors.
1970 – The Beatles broke up as a band.
2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announced the first-ever image of a black hole, located in the center of the M87 galaxy.
If you were born on April 10th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 18th (prior year)
April 10 is…
Cinnamon Crescent Day Encourage a Young Writer Day Farm Animals Day Siblings Day
April 10 Birthday Quotes
“What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.” – Joseph Pulitzer
“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.” – Steven Seagal
“The reality is, some people don’t want you to change or go anywhere different.” – Babyface
“Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.” – William Booth
“Music is entertainment, but I would like to be able to inspire the audience in a way that makes them leave, saying, “Wow, I just left with something I didn’t have before going into this concert.” I hope that people can leave either a live show or listening to our band record with a sense of peace, where the music was a moment of escape.” – Amanda Michalka
April 10 Birthdays
1794 – (Commodore) Matthew Perry, American naval officer (died in 1858) 1829 – William Booth, English minister, founded The Salvation Army (died in 1912) 1847 – Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American journalist and publisher, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (died in 1911) 1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor (died in 2011) 1921 – Chuck Connors, American baseball player and actor (died in 1992) 1921 – Sheb Wooley, American singer-songwriter and actor (died in 2003) 1929 – Liz Sheridan, American character actress 1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (died in 2020) 1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (died in 2015) 1936 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster 1952 – Steven Seagal, American actor and martial artist 1954 – Peter MacNicol, American actor 1954 – Juan Williams, Panamanian-American journalist and author 1959 – Babyface, American singer-songwriter and producer 1959 – Brian Setzer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1968 – Orlando Jones, American comedic actor 1980 – Charlie Hunnam, English actor 1982 – Chyler Leigh, American actress 1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress 1987 – Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress 1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor 1991 – AJ Michalka, American actress and singer 1992 – Daisy Ridley, English actress 1995 – Ian Nelson, American actor
April 10 History
1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, was enacted in Great Britain.
1790 – George Washington approved the US Patent office.
1815 (Volcano Eruption) Mount Tambora (Year Without A Summer). The eruption lasted 3 months, killing 10,000 people directly and 80,000 more via disease and famine.
1849 – The first US Patent (#6,281) for a safety pin was issued to Walter Hunt of New York City.
1906 – O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi was published.
1916 – The Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) was founded in New York City.
1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published.
April 10, 19** Birthday (fictional) Dinah Laurel Lance, Black Canary, DC Comics
1953 – The House of Wax, in 3-D and starring Vincent Price, opened at New York’s Paramount Theater.
1954 – #1 Hit April 10, 1954 – June 4, 1954: Perry Como – Wanted
1963 – USS Thresher, an atomic submarine, sank in the Atlantic Ocean, killing the entire crew of 129.
1965 – #1 Hit April 10, 1965 – April 23, 1965: Freddie and the Dreamers – I’m Telling You Now
1970 – Paul McCartney announced the breakup of the Beatles
1971 – The People’s Republic of China hosted the US table tennis team for a week-long visit.
1987 – The Secret of My Success was released in theaters.
1992 – Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Sleepwalkers and The Player debuted in theaters.
1998 – City of Angels, Species II, and The Odd Couple II were released in theaters.
1999 – #1 Hit April 10, 1999 – May 7, 1999: TLC – No Scrubs
2009 – Parks and Recreation premiered on NBC
2009 – Hannah Montana The Movie and Dragonball Evolution debuted in theaters.
2010 – Matt Smith debuted as the eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who on BBC America
2014 – Kathleen Sebelius resigned as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, after the faulty rollout of HealthCare.gov.
2015 – The Longest Ride and Ex Machina were released in theaters.
2016 – The price of US postage decreased for the first time (from 49 to 47 cents) in almost 100 years.
#1 Hit April 10, 2021 – April 16, 2021: Montero(Call Me by Your Name) – Lil Nas X
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Useless Pronunciation: M as in mnemonic
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” – Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx) in Animal Crackers, 1930
“Oh… wait. I get it. Holy Bartender! Ha, ha, ha! ” – Jay
“Attica! Attica!” – Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) in Dog Day Afternoon, 1975
Maybe ghosts have sheets over them because they’re people who died thinking hiding under their sheets would save them.
Today a 10-year-old kid with a $100 smartphone has access to more info than any human being on Earth had access to before the 90s.
“Gee, Mrs. Cleaver!” – Eddie Haskell (Leave it to Beaver)
“God bless America, land that I love, Stand beside her, and guide her, Through the night with the light from a bulb” #misunderstoodlyrics
A group of Mosquitoes is called a Scourge.
One of the 7 Wonders of the Middle Ages: The Great Wall of China, constructed 220 BC, through 1600s AD
The biggest film of 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (Drama) earned ~ $33,000,000
1784 – The Treaty of Paris was ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War.
1816 – The AME (African Methodist Episcopla) Church was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1865 – The American Civil War ended at Appomattox, Virginia.
1882 – Jumbo the Elephant arrived in America.His name popularized the term “Jumbo”.
1942 – The Battan Death March began, approximately 10,000 Allies Soldiers died during the week-long trek.
1991 – Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
April 9, 2841 Birthday (fictional) Professor Hubert J Farnsworth, Futurama, Cartoon
If you were born on April 9th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 17th (prior year)
April 9 is…
Chinese Almond Cookie Day Name Yourself Day Winston Churchill Day
April 9 Birthday Quotes
“My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.” – Jackie Evancho
“Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.” – Eadweard Muybridge
“Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are.” – Kristen Stewart
“Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.” – Paul Robeson
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Gerard Way
“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” – Tom Lehrer
April 9 Birthdays
1830 – Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer and cinematographer (died in 1904) 1898 – Paul Robeson, American singer, actor, and activist (died in 1976) 1917 – Brad Dexter, American character actor (died in 2002) 1926 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises (died in 2017) 1928 – Tom Lehrer, American humorous singer-songwriter 1932 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died in 1998) 1936 – Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist author, attempted murderer (died in 1988) 1937 – Marty Krofft, Canadian screenwriter and producer, brother of Sid Croft 1939 – Michael Learned, American actress 1953 – Stephen Paddock, American mass murderer responsible for the 2017 Las Vegas shooting (died in 2017) 1954 – Dennis Quaid, American actor 1963 – Joe Scarborough, American journalist 1965 – Paulina Porizkova, Czech-born Swedish-American model 1965 – Jeff Zucker, American businessman 1966 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress 1977 – Gerard Way, American singer-songwriter and comic book writer 1986 – Leighton Meester, American actress 1987 – Jesse McCartney, American singer-songwriter 1990 – Kristen Stewart, American actress 1998 – Elle Fanning, American actress 2000 – Jackie Evancho, American singer
April 9 History
1585 – Sir Walter Raleigh departed England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony.
1865 – At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the US Civil War.
1867 – The Alaska Purchase – the United States bought Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million, in a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate.
1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission was formed.
1947 (Tornado) Higgins, Texas, and Woodward, Oklahoma.
1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt wacleared and opened to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
1959 – NASA announced the selection of America’s first seven astronauts for Project Mercury. They were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton – the “Mercury Seven”
1962 – Sophia Loren won the Best Actress Oscar for Two Women.
1965 – Astrodome opened with the first indoor baseball game is played. It was an exhibition game between the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees. The Astros won 2-1.
1966 – #1 Hit April 9, 1966 – April 29, 1966: The Righteous Brothers – (You’re My) Soul And Inspiration
1967 – The first Boeing 737 made its maiden flight.
1974 – Phil Brooks was issued a US patent (#3,802,434) for a disposable syringe.
1977 – #1 Hit April 9, 1977 – April 15, 1977: ABBA – Dancing Queen
1981 – Nature published the longest scientific name in history. With 16,569 nucleotides, the systematic name for human mitochondrial DNA is 207,000 letters long. That would be over 1000 typical web pages.
1988 – #1 Hit April 9, 1988 – April 22, 1988: Billy Ocean – Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
1993 – Indecent Proposal, The Sandlot, and Sidekicks were released in theaters.
1994 – #1 Hit April 9, 1994 – May 20, 1994: R. Kelly – Bump n’ Grind
1998 – The Price Is Right aired their milestone 5,000th episode. Every prize given away on that episode was a car.
1999 – Never Been Kissed debuted in theaters.
2004 – Ella Enchanted, The Alamo, The Whole Ten Yards, and The Girl Next Door were released in theaters.
2011 – #1 Hit April 9, 2011 – April 29, 2011: Katy Perry featuring Kanye West – E.T.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Peter O’Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and never won.
A group of Stingrays is called a Fever.
The working title for E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was ‘A Boy’s Life.’
“Round up the usual suspects.” – Capt. Louis Renault (Claude Rains) in Casablanca, 1942
“If I Ran the Zoo” was published in 1950 and is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”
“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call ’em something else.” – Jim Baker in Sixteen Candles #moviequotes
Sonny the Cuckoo Bird is the bird who is coo-coo- for Cocoa Puffs.
Biggest film of 2004: Shrek 2 (Action/Adventure) earned ~ $441,000,000
TV Quotes… “Let’s get ready to rumble!” (Michael Buffer) various sports even
“Genuine Leather” is a grade of leather and does not just mean the product is made of leather.
Dusty Springfield – Real Name: Mary Isobel Catherine O’Brien
Buddha (Buddism Founder) – Real Name: Gautama Siddhartha
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra
In a glass of water, ice cubes don’t take up space. They take up time. #deepthoughts
1820 – Created nearly 2,000 years earlier, the Venus de Milo staue was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
1974 – Henry Aaron hit his 715th Home Run, beating Babe Ruth’s record of 714.
2005 – Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agreed to plead guilty. A security guard named Richard Jewell was initially considered the prime suspect in the case.
If you were born on April 8th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 16th (prior year)
Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Passed on April 8, 1913. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution
April 8 is…
Empanada Day Dog Fighting Awareness Day Draw a Picture of a Bird Day Milk in Glass Bottles Day Zoo Lover’s Day
April 8 Birthday Quotes
“The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.” – Sonja Henie
“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it…If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread–without it, it’s flat.” – Carmen McRae
“They say I look and sound ugly but I don’t be carin’.” – Biz Markie
“Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change.” – Julian Lennon
April 8 Birthdays
1892 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress and producer, co-founded United Artists (died in 1979) 1896 – Yip Harburg, American composer (died in 1981) 1912 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress (died in 1969) 1918 – Betty Ford (Elizabeth Bloomer), 40th American First Lady (died in 2011) 1922 – Carmen McRae, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (died in 1994) 1926 – Shecky Greene, American comedic actor 1942 – Douglas Trumbull, American special effects artist 1947 – Steve Howe, English guitarist/songwriter 1949 – Brenda Russell, African-American-Canadian singer/songwriter 1960 – John Schneider, American actor 1963 – Julian Lennon, English singer-songwriter 1964 – Biz Markie, American rapper 1966 – Robin Wright, American actress 1968 – Patricia Arquette, French-Canadian Russian/Polish Jewish-American actress 1973 – Emma Caulfield, American actress 1980 – Katee Sackhoff, American actress 1984 – Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984 – Taran Noah Smith, American actor 1990 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter, 27 club (died in 2017)
April 8 History
1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, was dedicated.
1820 – The Venus de Milo statue was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1838 (Tornado) Calcutta, India.
1873 – The first commercially successful margarine manufacturing process was Patented (No. 137,564) by Alfred Paraf of New York.
1879 – A “Fire Escape Ladder” was Patented (#214,224) by J.R. Winters.
1879 – Echo Farms Dairy Co. of New York sold milk in glass bottles for the first time in the US.
April 8, 19** Birthday (fictional) Alfred Pennyworth, Batman, DC Comics
1952 – US President Harry Truman announced the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1953 – Man in the Dark, the first 3D motion picture produced and released by a major company, opened at the Globe Theater in New York City.
1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper met to discuss the creation of a new programming language, leading to COBOL.
1964 – Gemini 1, an unmanned test flight, was launched.
April 8, 1968 Birthday (fictional) Chandler Bing, Friends, TV
1988 – #1 Hit April 8, 1989 – April 14, 1989: Roxette – The Look
1990 – Twin Peaks premiered on ABC
1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he had AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1994 – Lead Singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain was found dead, having committed suicide three days earlier.
2000 – #1 Hit April 8, 2000 – June 16, 2000: Santana featuring The Product G&B – Maria Maria
2006 – #1 Hit April 8, 2006 – May 12, 2006: Daniel Powter – Bad Day
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
“Hallo. Vould you like a roll in ze hay? It’s fun. Roll, roll, roll in ze hay.” – Inga #moviequotes
Han shot first. #true
“I’m not a crook!” – Richard Nixon
Arby’s isn’t named after the RB in Roast Beef, but rather the initials of the Raffel Brothers (R.B.) who founded the franchise.
Bono – Real Name: Paul Hewson
“Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what’s priceless.” – Robert Dieffenbach
When the years switch to 5 digits, will years be displayed with a comma? #planningahead
Crayola means ‘oily chalk’, from the words ‘craie’ (French for ‘chalk’) and ‘ola’ for ‘oleaginous’ or ‘oily’.
Biggest film of 2007: Spider-Man 3 (Action/Adventure) earned ~ $336,000,000
TV Quotes… “Come on down!” (Johnny Olson) on “The Price is Right”
Whoever invented knock knock jokes should get a no bell prize.
“Open the pod bay doors please, Hal.” – David Bowman (Keir Dullea) #moviequotes
Sheldon Cooper would hate a show like The Big Bang Theory.
1712 – A slave revolt took place in New York city.
1940 – Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1948 – The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations.
April 7, 1969 – The Internet’s symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
If you were born on April 7th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 15th (prior year)
April 7 is…
Beaver Day Beer Day Burrito Day Coffee Cake Day No Housework Day World Health Day
April 7 Birthday Quotes
“Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.” – Jackie Chan
“The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.” – Billie Holiday
“That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” – William Wordsworth
“Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature.” – Ravi Shankar
“You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.” – Billie Holiday
“I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.” – Walter Winchell
April 7 Birthdays
1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet (died in 1850) 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (died in 1951) 1897 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host (died in 1972) 1908 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer and bandleader (died in 1976) 1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter (died in 1959) 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (died in 2012) 1930 – Yves Rocher, French businessman, founded the Yves Rocher Company (died in 2009) 1933 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (died in 2015) 1938 – Jerry Brown, American lawyer and politician, 34th and 39th Governor of California 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects designer and makeup artist (died in 2008) 1948 – John Oates, American singer-songwriter 1954 – Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor and stuntman 1960 – Buster Douglas, American boxer 1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor 1988 – Ed Speleers, English actor 1991 – Anne-Marie, English singer-songwriter
April 7 History
1795 – France adopted the meter as the unit of length and the base of the metric system.
1896 – Patent (#557,994) for “justifying lines of type” was issued to Tolbert Langston.
April 7, 1905 Birthday (fictional) Mickey Goldmill (Rocky’s manager), Rocky, Film
1906 (Volcano) Mount Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples.
1927 -The first public display of a long-distance television transmission was viewed by a group of newspaper reporters and dignitaries in the auditorium of AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, via telephone lines from Washington, DC.
April 7, 1933 – King Kongwas released in theaters (the film, not the giant ape)
1933 – Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1945 – Japanese battleship Yamato was sunk by Allied forces off the coast of Okinawa.
1946 – Syria’s independence from France was officially recognized.
1949 – Broadway Show – South Pacific (Musical) April 7, 1949
1959 – The first distinguishable echo was recorded of a radar signal bounced off the Sun by the Radioscience Laboratory at Stamford University.
1962 – #1 Hit April 7, 1962 – April 20, 1962: Shelley Fabares – Johnny Angel
1964 – IBM introduced its innovative System/360, the company’s first line of compatible mainframe computers that gave customers the option of upgrading from lower-cost models to more powerful, expensive ones.
1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1968 – Motor racing world champion Jim Clark was killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim, Germany.
1969 – The Internet’s symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1 (A Request For Comments).
1970 – John Wayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in 1969’s True Grit.
1970 – Midnight Cowboy won in the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.
1973 – #1 Hit April 7, 1973 – April 20, 1973: Vicki Lawrence – The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
1980 – The United States severed relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1989 – Major League, The Dream Team, and Cyborg were released in theaters.
1990 – #1 Hit April 7, 1990 – April 13, 1990: Taylor Dayne – Love Will Lead You Back
1995 – Bad Boys, Rob Roy and A Goofy Movie debuted in theaters.
2000 – Rules of Engagement and Return To Me were released in theaters.
2001 – Mars Odyssey was launched to orbit Mars. The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, after his book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
April 7, 2003 – Birthday (fictional) Astro Boy, reboot, Cartoon
2007 – #1 Hit April 7, 2007 – April 20, 2007: Akon – Don’t Matter
2009 – Broadway Show – Rock of Ages (Musical) April 7, 2009
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious.” Rumack: “I am serious…and don’t call me Shirley.” – Ted Striker and Dr. Rumack (Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen)
In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK’s assassination.
“What if something’s on tv and it’s never shown again?” #songlyrics
The doctors that told Stephen Hawking he had two years to live in 1963 are probably dead.
“No, I am your father.” – Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back #moviequotes
“Makin’ whoopie” – Bob Eubanks (The Newlywed Game)
“Do the Funky Lady” #misunderstoodlyrics
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is basically how Earth sustains life.
Reed Hastings was inspired to start Netflix after racking up a $40 late fee on a VHS copy of Apollo 13.
The original Terminator (1984) was the T-800 Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.
Angelina Jolie – Real Name: Angelina Voight
Clouds are condensed water, and my body is approximately 60% water. I’m basically 60% cloud.
‘Chester Cheetah’ is the name of the cheetah selling us Cheetos snacks!
1869 – Celluloid was patented (#50359) by John Wesley Hyatt.
1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games took place, 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1917 – The United States joined in World War I.
April 6, 1946 Birthday (fictional) Rocky Balboa, Movies
April 6, 2980 T.A. Birthday (fictional) Samwise Gamgee, Lord of the Rings, Books/Films
If you were born on April 6th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 14th (prior year)
April 6 is…
Caramel Popcorn Day Fresh Tomato Day Siamese Cat Day Sorry Charlie Day Student-Athlete Day
April 6 Birthday Quotes
“When one is painting one does not think.” – Raphael
“If you’ve only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.” – Gerry Mulligan
“Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.” – Billy Dee Williams
“If you’re going to do good work, the work has to scare you.” – Andre Previn
“You don’t always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.” – Barry Levinson
“I don’t know how many days I worked there (Star Wars), the thing I do remember was I somehow got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog. It was Jim Henson’s space, with this Kermit the Frog sign. I took a photo of it and sent it to my mom with a caption that read, “Look, Mom. I made it. I got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog.” I was always fascinated by the film-set infrastructures.” – John Ratzenberger
April 6 Birthdays
1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (died in 1520) 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American comic book author and illustrator (died in 2000) 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died in 1996) 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress (died in 1972) 1929 – André Previn, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died in 2019) 1937 – Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter (died in 2016) 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor 1942 – Barry Levinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor and voice actor 1952 – Marilu Henner, Greek-Polish American actress 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor 1956 – Michele Bachmann, American lawyer and politician 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor 1987 – Hilary Rhoda, American model 1987 – Heidi Mount, American model 1998 – Peyton List, American actress and model
April 6 History
648 BC – Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
1748 – Excavations began at Pompeii, covered by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
1830 – The Mormon Church was founded in Fayette Township, New York, by Joseph Smith.
1852 – Edward Sabine announced that the 11-year sunspot cycle was “absolutely identical” with Earth’s geomagnetic cycle.
1895 – Oscar Wilde was arrested, and later found guilty of being a homosexual, and sentenced to two years of hard labor.
1909 – The North Pole was discovered by Robert E. Byrd and his team.
1930 – Hostess Twinkies snack cakes were invented by James ‘Jimmy’ A. Dewar, at the Continental Baking Company in Chicago
1931 – Little Orphan Annie debuted on the Blue Network of NBC.
1936 (Tornado) Gainesville, Georgia.
1938 – Roy J. Plunkett and Jack Rebok accidentally discovered the chemical compound polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), later marketed as Teflon by DuPont.
April 6, 1946 Birthday (fictional) Rocky Balboa, Rocky, Movies
1947 – The first Tony Awards were presented for theatrical achievement.
1956 – The Capitol Records Building opened in Los Angeles. The light on top blinks out “Hollywood” in Morse Cose at night.
1957 – #1 Ht April 6, 1957 – April 12, 1957: Perry Como – Round And Round
1957 -Trolley cars in ended service in New York City.
1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit via NASA by Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company.
1966 – Hundred of children and their teachers reported seeing a UFO over Melbourne, Australia.
1973 – NASA launched Pioneer 11 to Jupiter and Saturn.
1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball began using the designated hitter.
1974 – #1 Hit April 6, 1974 – April 12, 1974: Blue Swede – Hooked on a Feeling
1974 – Waterloo won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden. ABBA went on to pop music success for much of the 1970s.
1984 – The Gods Must Be Crazy, Moscow on the Hudson, Up The Creek and Hard To Hold were released in theaters.
1990 – Ernest Goes to Jail, The First Power, Cry-Baby and I Love You To Death debuted in theaters.
April 6, 1992 – Microsoft Windows 3.1 was released.
1992 – Barney and Friends premiered on PBS.
1998 – Travelers and Citicorp merged (the merger was completed on October 8) forming Citibank.
1999 – East End Show – Mamma Mia! (Musical) April 6, 1999
2001 – Along Came a Spider and Pokemon 3: The Movie were released in theaters.
2007 – Grindhouse debuted in theaters.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
There exists an area so unfathomably large that humans refer to it simply as “space.”
A group of Storks is called a Mustering or Muster.
The biggest film of 1928: The Singing Fool earned ~ $10,000,000
You have to be odd to be number one.
J.K. Rowling cited This Is Spinal Tap’s running joke about the death of their drummer as the inspiration for how Harry Potter’s Defense of The Dark Arts professor vacates their position yearly for various reasons.
Hieronymus Bosch – Real Name: Jerome Van Aken
We can refer to anything that doesn’t require horses to work as being horseless. The horseless carriage. The horseless pencil. The horseless laptop. The Horseless Large Hadron Collider.
Anne Frank and MLK Jr. were both born in the same year, yet we associate them as being in completely different periods in history.
Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language. #Floccinaucinihilipilification
The Capital of Tunisia is Tunis
“I don’t want to be perceived the way I am, I just want to be perceived the way I am.” #songlyrics
1768 – The first American Chamber of Commerce was founded in New York, NY.
1792 – United States President George Washington vetoed a bill, the first time exercising the authority to this power is used in the United States.
1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by American citizens.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
If you were born on April 5th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 13th (prior year)
April 5 is…
Caramel Day Dandelion Day Deep Dish Pizza Day First Contact Day Raisin and Spice Bar Day Read a Road Map Day
April 5 Birthday Quotes
“Happiness is not about the trophy or the finish line. It’s the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life.” – Pharrell Williams
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington
“I can only show what I have received from the characters. That’s what’s scary because you’re never going to be everyone’s taste and you don’t want to let people down. But, I can only do what I can do.” – Lily James
“Don’t wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want… create your own constellation.” – Pharrell Williams
“It’s better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for someone you’re not. It’s a sign of your worth sometimes if you’re hated by the right people.” – Bette Davis
“I don’t think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.” – Frank Gorshin
April 5 Birthdays
1827 – Joseph Lister, English physician (died in 1912) 1856 – Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (died in 1915) 1883 – Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (died in 1950) 1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (died in 1967) 1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (died in 1989) 1909 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions (died in 1996) 1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor (died in 2003) 1917 – Robert Bloch, American author (died in 1994) 1920 – Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian author (died in 2004) 1922 – Gale Storm, American actress and singer (died in 2009) 1933 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (died in 2005) 1937 – Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State 1962 – Lana Clarkson, American actress (died in 2003) 1963 – Arthur Adams, American comic book artist and writer 1972 – Krista Allen, American actress 1973 – Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and producer 1984 – Marshall Allman, American actor 1989 – Lily James, English actress 2001 – Thylane Blondeau, French model and actress
April 5 History
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1722 – On Easter Sunday, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered a Polynesian Island 1400 miles from the coast of South America and named it Easter Island.
1753 – The British Museum was founded with the purchase of the 50,000 volume library of Sir Hans Sloane and his collection of 69,352 items of nature and art.
1915 – Challenger Jess Willard knocked out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, the forerunner of Planned Parenthood, was incorporated.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company began production of balloon-type tires.
1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.
1936 (Tornado) Tupelo, Mississippi
1949 – Fireside Theater debuted on NBC.
1975 – #1 Hit April 5, 1975 – April 11, 1975: Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You
1987 – FOX debuted two shows, Married… with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show.
1991 – Katie Couric was designated a co-host of the Today Show.
1994 – Lead Singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain committed suicide, and was found three days later.
1996 – A Thin Line Between Love and Hate and Primal Fear were released in theaters.
1997 – The Crocodile Hunter premiered on Animal Planet
2002 – National Lampoon’s Van Wilder debuted in theaters.
2006 – The first case of H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in the UK after tests on a dead swan found in Cellardyke, Fife.
2008 – #1 Hit April 5, 2008 – April 11, 2008: Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
2012 – Scandal premiered on ABC
2013 – Penn & Teller were honored with the 2,494th star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their achievement in the category of Live Performance.
2013 – Evil Dead was released in theaters.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
Thanks to action movies, I am unnecessarily suspicious of black or white unmarked vans.
Income tax was first introduced in England in 1799 by British Prime Minister, William Pitt.
TV Quotes… “Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” (Arnold Drummond) on “Diff’rent Strokes”
The Scary Statistic: Earthquake odds: 1-in-131,890
What to do: Life in a hot air balloon can be fun.
A group of Camels is called a Caravan or Train or Flock.
I wish there was a movie called “Three” so when I go see it by myself I can order my ticket – “One to ‘Three’ for 5 o’clock”
“You’re gonna need a beggir boat.” – Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) #moviequotes
“Either” can be pronounced either way.
The Biggest film of 1926: Aloma of the South Seas (Drama) earned ~ $3,000,000
TV Quotes… “Good grief” (Charlie Brown) on “Peanuts” specials
I am tied for the world record for the fewest summit attempts of Mt. Everest.
The average secretary’s left-hand does 56% of the typing.
1814 – Napoleon abdicated and named his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.
1841 – William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office (presiding 31 days total).
1887 – Argonia, Kansas elected Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1932 – Vitamin C was isolated by C.G. King.
1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
If you were born on April 4th, You were likely conceived the week of… July 12th (prior year)
The Beatles Topped The Charts
The Beatles became the first artists to hold all top 5 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 on the same week, on April 4, 1964. #1. Can’t Buy Me Love #2. Twist and Shout #3. She Loves You #4. I Want to Hold Your Hand #5. Please Please Me. More Beatles on the Charts that week: #31 – I Saw Her Standing There, #41 – From Me To You, #46 – Do You Want To Know a Secret, #58 – All My Loving, #65 – You Can’t Do That, #68 – Roll Over Beethoven, #79 – Thank You Girl FUN FACT: They called Paul the Cute One, but in 1964, the best-selling Beatles merchandise were the “I Love Ringo” lapel pins…
The CND Peace Symbol
The CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) peace symbol was displayed in public for the first time in London. It was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958. It has become a nearly universal peace symbol used in many different versions worldwide.
April 4 is…
Chocolate Milk Powder Day Cordon Bleu Day Hug a Newsperson Day International Day for Mine Awareness Ramen Noodle Day School Librarian Day Tell a Lie Day
April 4 Birthday Quotes
“Man is not made better by being degraded.” – Dorothea Dix
“Once I decide to do something, I can’t have people telling me I can’t. If there’s a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.” – Kitty Kelley
“You’ve got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.” – Clive Davis
“There’s no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I’m playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues – the blues we used to have when we had no money.” – Muddy Waters
“As children, we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.’ – David Blaine
“If you make decisions based upon people’s reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.” – Heath Ledger
April 4 Birthdays
1802 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (died in 1887) 1821 – Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and businessman (died in 1868) 1913 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (died in 2005) 1915 – Muddy Waters, American Blues guitarist (died in 1983) 1927 – Joe Orlando, Italian-American comic book author and illustrator (died in 1998) 1928 – Estelle Harris, American comedic actress 1928 – Maya Angelou, American poet (died in 2014) 1932 – Clive Davis, American record producer, founded Arista Records 1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (died in 1992) 1942 – Kitty Kelley, American journalist and biographer 1944 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor 1956 – David E. Kelley, American screenwriter and producer 1959 – Phil Morris, American actor 1960 – Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-Australian actor 1963 – Graham Norton, Irish actor and talk show host 1964 – David Cross, American actor and screenwriter 1965 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor 1972 – Jill Scott, American singer-songwriter 1973 – David Blaine, American magician 1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (died in 2008) 1987 – Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
April 4 History
1561 – Warring UFOs were reported flying over Nuremberg, German
1850 – Los Angeles, California, was incorporated as a city.
1871 – Mary Florence Potts of Ottumwa, Iowa Patented (#113,448) the “Mrs. Potts’ sad iron” – a set of three irons with a detachable handle, so two irons could be heating up while you were using the other.
1877 -A pianist performed in Philadelphia, and an audience heard the performance in New York, via the telephone.
1932 – Professor C. Glen King, of the University of Pittsburgh discovered vitamin C.
1933 – Akron, a dirigible, crashed in New Jersey, killing 73 people.
1964 – #1 Hit April 4, 1964 – May 8, 1964: The Beatles – Can’t Buy Me Love
1964 – The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States, with Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me.
1968 – James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr in Memphis Tennessee.
1969 – CBS abruptly canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and replaced it with Hee Haw.
1973 – The World Trade Center in New York was officially dedicated.
1975 – Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
April 4, 1982 Birthday (fictional) Mariah Hill, Marvel Cinematic Universe
1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger’s maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
1987 – #1 Hit April 4, 1987 – April 17, 1987: Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
1998 – #1 Hit April 4, 1998 – April 24, 1998: K-Ci & JoJo – All My Life
2003 – A Man Apart, What a Girl Wants, and Phone Booth were released in theaters.
2013 – Broadway Show – Kinky Boots (Musical) April 4, 2013
2013 – Famed movie critic Roger Ebert died.
2014 – Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar debuted in theaters.
April 4, 2020 – April 17, 2020: Blinding Lights – The Weeknd
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
The YKK on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.
Renee Descartes, the 17th-century philosopher, and mathematician is the person responsible for “x” being the universal variable in algebra.
“Perhaps we will find something extraordinary. Perhaps something extraordinary will find us.” – G’Kar, Babylon 5
US President #15 James Buchanan (1857-1861) First president to have his inauguration photographically recorded.
The Sun counts for 99.86% of the mass in our Solar System.
We are taught ‘the pen is stronger than the sword’ but also that ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.’ Which one is it?
Bazinga! #TVCatchphrase
Walking a mile in another person’s shoes only takes like 20, 30 minutes, tops. Is that really enough time to get to understand someone?
“In every generation, there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.” – Rupert Giles
The Capital of Niger is Niamey
The biggest film of 1958: South Pacific earned ~ $36,800,000
1860 – The first United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California took began.
April 3, 1918 Birthday (fictional) Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash), DC Comics.
2000 – Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors in United States v. Microsoft Corp.
2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, revealed information on 214,488 offshore companies.
If you were born on April 3rd, You were likely conceived the week of… July 11th (prior year)
April 3 in Cell Phone and Tech History
April 3, 1973, The first portable phone call was placed by inventor Martin Cooper to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, which used to be the research department for AT&T. April 3, 1983, Martin Cooper, Motorola project manager, demonstrated the 1st mobile phone that you could buy; The DynaTAC 8000x. It was designed by Rudy Krolopp and the 2½ pound cell phone was made available for $3,995.
The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco on April 3, 1981. Jump ahead to 2010, April 3rd… the first iPod came out.
April 3 is…
Chocolate Mousse Day Find a Rainbow Day Walk to Work Day World Party Day
April 3 Birthday Quotes
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving
“I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.” – Sebastian Bach
“I don’t care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.” – Boss Tweed
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
“If it were not for the bad things that’ve happened to me, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.” – Wayne Newton
“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton
April 3 Birthdays
1783 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, and historian (died in 1859) 1823 – William ‘Boss’ Tweed, American politician (died in 1878) 1885 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (died in 1954) 1893 – Leslie Howard, English actor (died in 1943) 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor (died in 2004) 1934 – Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist 1942 – Marsha Mason, American actress 1942 – Wayne Newton, American singer 1942 – Billy Joe Royal, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died in 2015) 1944 – Tony Orlando, American singer 1949 – Lyle Alzado, American football player and actor (died in 1992) 1953 – Sandra Boynton, American author and illustrator 1956 – Ray Combs, American game show host (died in 1996) 1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor and comedian 1959 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American comedic actor 1968 – Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter 1972 – Jennie Garth, American actress 1973 – Adam Scott, American actor 1982 – Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress 1986 – Amanda Bynes, American actress 1998 – Paris Jackson, American celebrity
April 3 History
33 – Two researchers from Oxford published a paper that put the definitive date of Jesus’ crucifixion at Friday, April 3, 33 AD
1860 – Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously left St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. They used horses, not ponies.
1882 – A Tombstone reads, “Jesse W. James, Died April 3, 1882, Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days, Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.” Jesse James was shot and killed by frenemy Robert Ford for the reward money. There was a $5,000 bounty on the bank-robber, but they gave Ford $500 and then arrested him.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his engine design.
1891 – Emma Elizabeth Smith may have been the first murdered by Jack the Ripper in Whitechapel, London.
1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde began, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
April 3, 1918 Birthday (fictional) Jay Garrick (Golden Age Flash), DC Comics
1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1953 – TV Guide published its first issue
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announced it would defend Allen Ginsberg’s book Howl against obscenity charges.
1956 – Elvis Presley appeared on the Milton Berle Show.
1961 – #1 Hit April 3, 1961 – April 23, 1961: The Marcels – Blue Moon
1966 – The USSR’s Luna 10, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon, entered lunar orbit and completed its first orbit 3 hours later.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I’ve Been to the Mountaintop speech. in Memphis, Tennessee.
1971 – #1 Hit April 3, 1971 – April 16, 1971: The Temptations – Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
1973 – Inventor Martin Cooper placed the first portable phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1976 – #1 Hit April 3, 1976 – April 30, 1976: Johnnie Taylor – Disco Lady
1978 – At the 50th annual Academy Awards, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1977.
1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1983 – Martin Cooper, Motorola project manager, demonstrated the 1st mobile phone, the DynaTAC 8000x. It was designed by Rudy Krolopp and the 2½ pound cell phone was soon made available for $3,995.
1986 – Merv Griffin sold Merv Griffin Enterprises, to The Coca-Cola Company, for $250,000,000.
1987 – Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol was released in theaters.
1992 – Beethoven, Thunderheart, Rock-A-Doodle, and Straight Talk debuted in theaters.
1996 – “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski was captured at his cabin in Montana.
1998 – Lost in Space, Barney’s Great Adventure, and Mercury Rising were released in theaters.
2000 – Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors.
April 3, 2005 (fiction) Andrew Martin was activated. Bicentennial Man, Film
2009 – Fast and Furious and Adventureland debuted in theaters.
April 3, 2010 – The Apple iPod (Wi-Fi) was released.
2015 – Furious 7 was released in theaters.
#1 Hit April 3, 2021 – April 9, 2021: Peaches – Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
The biggest film of 1930: Tom Sawyer (Adventure) earned ~ $11,000,000
TV Quotes… “D’oh!” (Homer Simpson) on “The Simpsons”
Dr. Evil demanded 1 Million dollars: a sum of money smaller than 1% of Austin Powers’ overall budget.
“Friends applaud! The comedy is finished” – Ludwig Van Beethoven #LastWords
The entire cast was male on the set of 1982’s ‘The Thing.’
James Dean – Real Name: James Byron
TV Quotes… “Baby, you’re the greatest” (Ralph Kramden) on “The Honeymooners”
The biggest film of 1933: King Kong (Horror) earned ~ $10,000,000
“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?” – Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) in Graduate, The Graduate, 1967
When you “bite down” on something, you’re actually “biting up” because you can’t move your top jaw.
Biggest film of 1959: Ben-Hur (Action/Adventure) earned ~ $73,000,000
The Flash would be the best pizza delivery guy.
“WWW” is such an awkward acronym. We should call it “Triple Double U”, or better yet “Sextuple U”. That’s so fun to say around the office.
1792 – The United States Mint was established via the Coinage Act.
1878 – The first White House Easter Egg Roll took place.
1917 – The Great War: US President Woodrow Wilson asked the American Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1982 – April 2 – June 15: The Faulkland Islands War.
2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States.
If you were born on April 2nd, You were likely conceived the week of… July 10th (prior year)
April 2 is…
Burrito Day Children’s Book Day Ferret Day Peanut Butter And Jelly Day Reconciliation Day World Autism Awareness Day
April 2 Birthday Quotes
“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.” – Charlemagne
“I’ve succeeded at everything except my life.” – Serge Gainsbourg
“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” – Emile Zola
“Be the flame, not the moth.” – Casanova Girolama
I love you in a place where there’s no space or time I love you for my life ’cause you’re a friend of mine – Leon Russell
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.” – Hans Christian Andersen
April 2 Birthdays
747 – Charlemagne, Frankish king (died in 814) 1725 – Casanova Giovaani Giacomo Girolama, Italian adventurer (died in 1798) 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (died in 1875) 1840 – Emile Zola, French naturalist (died in 1902) 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet (died in 1976) 1908 – Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (died in 2003) 1914 – Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (died in 2000) 1918 – Charles White, African-American artist (died in 1979) 1920 – Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died in 1982) 1928 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director (died in 1991) 1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (died in 1984) 1941 – Dr. Demento, American radio host 1942 – Leon Russell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died in 2016) 1945 – Linda Hunt, American actress 1947 – Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter 1961 – Christopher Meloni, American actor 1962 – Clark Gregg, American actor, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
April 2 History
1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed near what is now called St. Augustine, Florida and declared the land for Spain.
1792 – The Coinage Act was passed, establishing the United States Mint.
1827 – Lead pencils were began being manufactured by Joseph Dixon, who built his factory in Salem, Massachusetts
April 2, 19** Birthday (fictional) Sgt. Joe Friday, Dragnet, TV
1902 – “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opened in Los Angeles.
1917 – The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.
1953 – The journal Nature published a paper with this date from Francis Crick and James Watson, titled Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, in which they described a double helix structure for DNA.
1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night first aired on the CBS network in the United States, as the first half-hour serial dramas.
1956 – Elvis Presley sang Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show, with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
1972 – Charlie Chaplin returned to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
1973 – The first portable cell phone call was placed in New York City.
1973 – Launch of the LexisNexis legal research service.
1978 – Dallas premiered on CBS.
1978 – Velcro, the hook-and-loop fastener patent, expired. Velcro comes from “vel” or velvet and “cro” from the French word crochet which means hook.
1982 – Cat People was released in theaters.
1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
1992 – Pope John Paul II died.
1996 – Suspected ‘Unabomber’ Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
2004 – Hellboy and Walking Tall debuted in theaters.
2010 – Clash of the Titans was released in theaters (along with The Kraken)
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster by your side, kid.” – Han Solo (Harrison Ford) #moviequotes
Ursula the Sea Witch from ‘The Little Mermaid’ was inspired by drag queen Divine.
TV Quotes… “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” (Jan Brady) on The Brady Bunch
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” – Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) in A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ben Stein’s economics lecture scene was completely improvised and done in one take.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Twitter is just like a whole bunch of haiku’s written by people who don’t understand how haiku’s are supposed to work.
The difference between a Million and a Billion is almost a Billion.
Aren’t all galaxies ‘far far’ away?
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
US President #41 George Herbert Walker (Bush 1989-1993) 2nd most known quote: “I’m President of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!” Most known: “No New Taxes”.
1891 – The Wrigley (Chewing Gum) Company was founded in Chicago, Illinois.
April 1 is known as April Fools Day or All Fools’ Day in many countries.
April 1, **** Birthday (fictional) Mr. Mxyzptlk Superman, DC Comics
1976 – Apple Inc. was formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California 12 days later, Ronald sold his 10% share of the new company back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800. “What can I say? You make a decision based on your understanding of the circumstances, and you live with it.” – Ronald Wayne
April 1, 1978 Birthday (fictional) Fred and George Weasley, Harry Potter
1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp was seen passing at perihelion.
If you were born on April 1st, You were likely conceived the week of… July 9th (prior year)
April Fools Day
Nobody’s sure when the whole April Fools Day thing started. April Fools’ Day has been celebrated for centuries, but the origin of this day is still shrouded in mystery. Some historians believe it dates back to 1582 when France changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Those who forgot or refused to accept the new calendar system were considered “fools” and sent on “errands,” such as visiting nonexistent locations with playful imitation scrolls and other paper novelty items that declared them April Fools.
Other scholars contend that April Fools’ Day began around 536 AD when Pope Gregory III designated April 1st as a day of celebration called “All Fool’s Day.” This allowed people to laugh and make jokes instead of observing religious holidays during this time.
In 1392, in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, there was a reference to March 32, which could be APRIL 1st.
On April Fools’ Day 1957, on a BBC show called Panorama – they showed a family in Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree” at a SWISS HARVEST FESTIVAL, documentary style. At the time, spaghetti wasn’t really a thing in England, and people many people thought it was true. But not all hoaxes are limited to April 1st, one of the earliest documented purposeful hoaxes was in 1835, when The New York Sun Newspaper ran stories for six days about life on the moon – goats, unicorns, walking beavers, and bat-like winged humanoids. It increased sales, but they never printed a retraction.
April 1 is…
April Fools’ Day Fun at Work Day Sourdough Bread Day
April 1 Birthday Quotes
“My whole career has been devoted to keeping people from knowing me.” – Lon Chaney
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” – Otto von Bismarck
“I’m learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what’s working rather than looking for the ‘what’s not working’ piece.” – Ali MacGraw
“I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.” – Bijou Phillips
“The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.” – Samuel Alito
April 1 Birthdays
1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (died in 1898) 1883 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died in 1930) 1929 – Jane Powell, American actress, singer, and dancer 1939 – Ali MacGraw, American actress 1948 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer and musician 1949 – Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and author (died in 2011) 1950 – Samuel Alito, American lawyer and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court 1952 – Annette O’Toole, American actress 1961 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer 1966 – Chris Evans, English radio and television host 1973 – Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author 1980 – Bijou Phillips, American actress and model 1995 – Logan Paul, American Youtuber
April 1 History
33 – Estimated date of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper
1789 – Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was elected as the first US Speaker of the House of Representatives.
1853 – The first professional, full-time US fire department with salaried firemen was established in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1875 – Sir Francis Galton published the first newspaper weather map, in The Times in London, England
1877 – Edward Schieffelin founded Tombstone, Arizona, best known as the place where Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers had their shoot-out with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in 1881
1934 – Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
1938 – The first panda to live in captivity outside China, Su Lin, died after a twig lodged in his throat at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago.
1957 – The BBC broadcast the ‘spaghetti-tree hoax’ on its current affairs program Panorama, showing spaghetti being harvested from trees.
1960 – The first weather observation satellite, Tiros I, was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, and made the first television picture from space.
1960 – Dr. Martens released its first boots, the model 1460.
1963 – ABC premiered General Hospital, the daytime drama that eventually became the network’s longest-running (soap opera) serial program produced in Hollywood. On the same day, NBC debuted The Doctors.
1965 – On April 1, 1965, Michael O’Mahony claimed on BBC TV to have invented Smell-O-Vision. Numerous viewers called in and reported having experienced coffee and onion aromas through their TV sets. #dontbeleiveanythingaprilfirst
1970 – President Richard Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio.
1976 – Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
1977 (Tornado) Madaripur and Shibchar, Bangladesh
April 1, 1977 – The Apple II was released.
April 1, 1978 Birthday (fictional) Fred and George Weasley, Harry Potter
1979 – Nickelodeon kid’s cable channel was launched.
April 1, 1979, 19** Birthday (fictional) Bart Simpson, The Simpsons, TV
1983 – Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Screwballs were released in theaters.
1984 – Singer Marvin Gaye was shot three times and killed by his father during a domestic dispute.
1988 – Beetlejuice, The Seventh Sign, and Bright Lights, Big City debuted in theaters.
1989 – #1 Hit April 1, 1989 – April 7, 1989: The Bangles – Eternal Flame
April 1 19** The Joker and Dr. Harlees Quinzel escaped the asylum, DC Comics
1993 – Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is founded in Los Angeles, California, USA.
1994 – Major League II and Thumbelina were released in theaters.
1997 – As part of a crossover April Fools joke, Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy and Alex Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune.
2001 – Same-sex marriage became legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country allowing it.
2004 – Gmail was launched on April 1 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools’ Day prank. They offered 1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services typically provided between 5MB – 50MB.
2005 – Sin City debuted in theaters.
2006 – #1 Hit April 1, 2006 – April 7, 2006: Sean Paul – Temperature
2007 – Google sent an email to all of its employees warning that a python was loose inside of their New York office. It was not a joke.
Today’s Random Trivia and Shower Thoughts
“Cogito ergo est. I think, therefore you is.” – The King of the Moon #moviequotes
“U + Me = Us (Calculus)” #songlyrics
I see the Google logo every day, but I don’t know which letter is in which color.
Notice the big letter on the face of the dollar bill? Each letter represents which Federal Reserve Bank printed it! “A” is for Boston
Useless Pronunciation: E as in entirely
The biggest film of 1936: How to Become a Detective earned ~ $6,000,000
“Ask not what your country can do for you …” – John F. Kennedy
“As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no “I” in team, but there is an “I” in pie. And there’s an “I” in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team… I don’t know what he’s talking about.” – Shaun
The only answer to the question, “Is today opposite day?” is “No”.
TV Quotes… “Mom always liked you best” (Tommy Smothers) on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”
A group of Monkeys is called a Troop or Barrel or Carload or Cartload or Tribe.
When going to the casino take out the money you are comfortable losing and then keep your credit cards and debit cards locked in your vehicle. Bonus points if you park far away as well. #LifeProTip
“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.” – James Thurber
The origin of April’s name is uncertain. It likely derives from the Latin word Aprilis, derived from the Latin verb aperire, meaning “to open,” referring to the opening of flowers and plants in the springtime. April was the ancient Roman month dedicated to Venus, the goddess of beauty, whose festival occurred on April 1st. This April Festival is believed to be the source of many modern April Fool’s Day customs. April also coincided with Ovid’s celebration of the rites of Venus and traditional Roman festivals such as Veneralia (April 1) and Robigalia (April 25). The Anglo-Saxons called April Eosturmonath or Ostara after their goddess Ostara or Eostre.April is also traditionally associated with April showers, bringing May flowers.
Keep America Beautiful Month
America is a beautiful country, and there’s no better time to celebrate than Keep America Beautiful Month. Every April since 2000, millions of people across the United States come together to help protect their local environment by volunteering in cleanups, organizing donation drives, and other activities promoting sustainability.During this month-long celebration, everyone can participate in making a difference. Here are just some of the ideas: Plant a tree or garden in your yard; Collect litter around your neighborhood; Donate reusable items like clothes or furniture; Recycle cans and bottles to reduce waste; Buy products made from recycled materials whenever possible; Educate yourself about environmental issues and share what you learn with others.Participating in Keep America Beautiful Month is easy, and the rewards are worth it. When everyone works together, we can make the world a little brighter and our environment a little healthier. So let’s get out there and show our appreciation for Mother Nature during Keep America Beautiful Month!
April’s Moons
Ashes Moon, Awakening Moon, Big Spring Moon, Big Summer Moon, Black Oaks Tassel Moon, Broken Snowshoe Moon, Budding Time Moon, Budding Trees Moon, Bullhead Moon, Cherry Blossom Moon, Daisy Moon, Moon, Egg Moon, Moon, Fish Moon, Flower Moon, Frog Moon, Glittering Snow on Lake Moon, Grass Moon, Gray Goose Moon, Great Sand Storm Moon, Green Grass Moon,, Growing Moon, Half Spring Moon, Hare Moon, Ice Breaking in the River Moon, Leaf Split Moon, Loon Moon, Maple Moon, Maple Sugar Moon, Maple Sap Boiling Moon, Moon of Greening Grass, Moon of Red Grass Appearing, Moon of the Big Leaves, Moon of the Red Grass Appearing, Moon of Windbreak, Moon When Geese Return in Scattered Formation, Moon When Nothing Happens, Moon When the Geese Lay Eggs, Moon When They Set Indian Corn, Peony Moon, Pink Moon, Planter’s Moon, Planting Corn Moon, Planting Moon, Poinciana Moon, Red Grass Appearing Moon, Ring Finger Moon, Snowshoe Breaking Moon, Spring Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Strawberry Moon, Strong Moon, Sugar Maker Moon, Summer Moon, Sweet Pea Moon, Tulip Moon, White Lady Moon, Wildcat Moon, Willow Moon, Wind Moon, Wisteria Moon and Yellow Moon.
April is…
Alcohol Awareness Month Arab American Heritage Month Autism Awareness Month BLT Sandwich Month Child Abuse Prevention Month Confederate History Month Customer Loyalty Month Defeat Diabetes Month Distracted Driving Awareness Month DIY Decorating Month Financial Literacy Month Florida Tomato Month Grilled Cheese Month Garlic Month Grange Month Keep America Beautiful Month Lawn & Garden Month Mathematics & Statistics Month National Humor Month Jazz Appreciation Month Occupational Therapy (OT) Month Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month Pecan Month Pet First Aid Awareness Month Poetry Writing Month Rape Awareness Month School Library Month Sexual Assault Awareness Month Soft Pretzel Month Soyfoods Month Stress Awareness Month Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
Taurus is the second astrological sign in the Zodiac, represented by the Bull. It is associated with the element of earth, and is considered a fixed sign. Those born under this sign are said to be dependable, practical, and determined. The planet Venus rules Taurus, and its corresponding astrological period is typically considered to be from April 20 to May 20. Taurus is known for being strong-willed and determined with a love for material comforts and pleasures. They are also known to be reliable and trustworthy.
April Quotes
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heartache, you want it so!” – Mark Twain
“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser 1557, (A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry)
“If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men, only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God’s power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” – Mark Twain
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” – T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
April History
Trivia for April 1 April 1 is known as April Fools Day or All Fools’ Day in many countries.1789 – Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was elected as the first US Speaker of the House of Representatives.1877 – Edward Schieffelin founded Tombstone, Arizona, best known as the place where Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers had their shoot-out with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in 1881
1934 – Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
1963 – ABC premiered General Hospital, the daytime drama that eventually became the network’s longest-running (soap opera) serial program produced in Hollywood. On the same day, NBC debuted The Doctors.
1970 – President Richard Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio.
1976 – Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
1977 (Tornado) Madaripur and Shibchar, Bangladesh
1979 – Nickelodeon kid’s cable channel was launched
1984 – Singer Marvin Gaye was shot three times and killed by his father during a domestic dispute.
1997 – As part of a crossover April Fools joke, Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy and Alex Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune. Trivia for April 2
Trivia for April 2 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed near what is now called St. Augustine, Florida and declared the land for Spain.
1860 – Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously left St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. They used horses, not ponies.
1882 – Tombstone reads, “Jesse W. James, Died April 3, 1882, Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days, Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.” Jesse James was shot and killed by frenemy Robert Ford for the reward money. There was a $5,000 bounty on the bank-robber, but they gave Ford $500 and then arrested him.
1917 – The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.
1953 – TV Guide debuted.
1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night first aired on the CBS network in the United States, as the first half-hour serial dramas.
1956 – Elvis Presley sang “Heartbreak Hotel” on the Milton Berle Show, with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
1973 – The first portable cell phone call was placed in New York City.
1978 – Dallas premiered on CBS
1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
1992 – Pope John Paul II died.
1996 – Suspected “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
Trivia for April 3 1860 – The Pony Express began service, between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his engine design.
1953 – TV Guide published its first issue
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announced it would defend Allen Ginsberg’s book, Howl, against obscenity charges.
1956 – Elvis Presley appeared on The Milton Berle Show
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.
1978 – At the 50th annual Academy Awards, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1977.
1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1986 – Merv Griffin sold Merv Griffin Enterprises, to The Coca-Cola Company, for $250,000,000.
Trivia for April 4 1561 – UFOs were reported flying over Nuremberg, German
1841 – US President Harrison died of pneumonia after one month in office
1850 – Los Angeles, California was incorporated as a city.
1933 – Akron, a dirigible, crashed in New Jersey, killing 73 people.
1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1964 – The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States, with Can’t Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee.
1969 – CBS abruptly canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and replaced it with Hee Haw, they announced. Hee Haw episodes were ready to premiere in mid-June.
1973 – The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
1975 – Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger made its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
2013 – Famed movie critic Roger Ebert died
Trivia for April 5 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, the forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1936 (Tornado) Tupelo, Mississippi
1949 – Fireside Theater debuted on NBC.
1987 – FOX debuted two shows, Married… with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show
1991 – Katie Couric was designated a co-host of the Today Show.
1994 – Lead Singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain committed suicide, and was found three days later.
1997 – The Crocodile Hunter premiered on Animal Planet
2006 – The first case of H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in the UK after tests on a dead swan found in Cellardyke, Fife.
2012 – Scandal premiered on ABC
Trivia for April 6 648 BC – Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
1830 – The Mormon Church was founded in Fayette Township, New York, by Joseph Smith
1895 – Oscar Wilde was arrested, and later found guilty of being a homosexual, and sentenced to two years of hard labor.
1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1931 – Little Orphan Annie debuted on the Blue Network of NBC.
1936 (Tornado) Gainesville, Georgia
1966 – Hundred of children and their teachers reported seeing a UFO over Melbourne, Australia
1974 – “Waterloo” won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden. ABBA went on to pop music success for much of the 1970s.
Trivia for April 7 1906 (Volcano) Mount Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples.
1933 – Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1945 – Japanese battleship Yamato was sunk by Allied forces off the coast of Okinawa.
1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1970 – John Wayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in 1969’s True Grit.
1970 – Midnight Cowboy won in the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.
Trivia for April 8 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, was dedicated.
1820 – The Venus de Milo statue was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1838 (Tornado) Calcutta, India
1952 – US President Harry Truman announced the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
1964 – Gemini 1, an unmanned test flight, was launched.
1990 – Twin Peaks premiered on ABC
1994 – Lead Singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain was found dead, having committed suicide three days earlier.
2005 – Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agreed to plead guilty. A security guard named Richard Jewell was initially considered the prime suspect in the case.
Trivia for April 9 1865 – At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the US Civil War.
1867 – The Alaska Purchase – the United States bought Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million, in a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate.
1945 – 1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission was formed.
1947 (Tornado) Higgins, Texas and Woodward, Oklahoma
1962 – Sophia Loren won Best Actress Oscar for Two Women
1967 – The first Boeing 737 made its maiden flight.
1998 – The Price Is Right aired their milestone 5,000th episode. Every prize given away on that episode was a car.
Trivia for April 10 1815 (Volcano Eruption) Mount Tambora (Year Without A Summer). The eruption lasted 3 months.
1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was founded in New York City.
1906 – O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi was published.
1953 – The House of Wax, in 3-D and starring Vincent Price, opened at New York’s Paramount Theater.
1963 – USS Thresher, an atomic submarine, sank in the Atlantic Ocean, killing the entire crew of 129.
1970 – Paul McCartney announced the breakup of the Beatles
1971 – In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People’s Republic of China hosted the US table tennis team for a week-long visit.
2009 – Parks and Recreation premiered on NBC
2010 – Matt Smith debuted as the eleventh Doctor on Doctor Who on BBC America
2014 – Kathleen Sebelius resigned as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, after the faulty rollout of HealthCare.gov.
Trivia for April 11 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.
1909 – The city of Tel Aviv was founded.
1919 – The International Labor Organization was founded.
1945 – The American Third Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany.
1964 (Tornado) Bhabanipur, Bangladesh
1970 – Apollo 13 was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise. The difficult trip back home was the topic of the film, Apollo 13.
1981 – Van Halen’s lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen married One Day at a Time actress Valerie Bertinelli
1988 – Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in 1987’s Moonstruck.
2006 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched uranium.
Trivia for April 12 1633 – Galileo was convicted of heresy, for announcing that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
1914 – Mark Strand Theatre opened in New York City. It was the first official “movie theater.”
1934 – The strongest surface wind gust ever recorded on Earth, at 231 mph, was measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
1961 – Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space.
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia), named the STS-1 mission.
1987 – 21 Jump Street premiered on FOX
1995 – Drew Barrymore appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and because it was his birthday she famously danced on his desk and flashed him on the air.
Trivia for April 13 1204 – Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade.
1742 – Handel’s Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act gave Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in the UK’s Parliament.
1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded.
1902 – James C. Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1970 – An Oxygen tank exploded on Apollo13, but everyone survived. It was also the major plot for the 1995 film, Apollo 13.
1974 – Western Union, with NASA and Hughes Aircraft, launched the US’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note
Trivia for April 14 1775 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1818 – Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1865 – John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play (Our American Cousin) at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C.
1912 – RMS Titanic hit an iceberg, killing 1514 people that evening, and into the next day.
1933 – Jack Mackay and his wife reported seeing the Loch Ness Monster, “Nessie”, although the earliest report was in 565 AD, when St. Columba turned away a giant beast that was threatening a man in the Ness River, which flows into the lake.
1935 – “Black Sunday Storm” – the worst dust storm of the US Dust Bowl, hit from the Oklahoma Panhandle and Northwestern Oklahoma to the Texas Panhandles.
1953 – The CIA started to give unwitting subjects LSD in a search for a mind-controlling drug.
1969 (Tornado) East Pakistan, Pakistan
1969 – Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) tied for Best Actress Oscar
1984 – My Little Pony premiered, in syndication
1990 – In Living Color premiered on FOX
1994 – The 24-hour movie channel Turner Classic Movies made its debut.
2003 – The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
Trivia for April 15 1755 – Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London.
1892 – The General Electric Company was formed.
1912 – Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Newfoundland & Nova Scotia, Canada, after hitting an iceberg the night before.
1923 – Insulin became available for use by people with diabetes.
1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 began.
1947 – Jackie Robinson, became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1955 – McDonald’s opened its first franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day was held in Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City.
2013 – At approximately 2:50 PM (EDT), in a terrorist attack, two explosions around Copley Square were caught live on camera during the telecast of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring 260.
Trivia for April 16 73 AD – Masada, a Jewish fortress, fell to the Romans after several months of siege.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, gunslinger Bat Masterson fought his last gun battle. He paid an $8 fine and retired.
1943 – Albert Hoffmann accidentally discovered the psychedelic effects of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
1947 – Bernard Baruch, in a speech given during the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina House of Representatives, coined the term “Cold War” to describe relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1962 – Walter Cronkite became the news anchor for the CBS network.
1990 – Doctor Death, Jack Kevorkian, participated in his first assisted suicide. Janet Adkins was the patient, in Detroit, Michigan.
1995 – Governor George W. Bush named April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after the singer was killed two weeks earlier.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and injured 17 before committing suicide.
Trivia for April 17 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.
1815 (Volcano) Tambora volcano in Indonesia killed almost 100,000 people
1897 – A UFO supposedly crashed into a farm owned by J.S. Proctor in Aurora, Texas.
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center in New York processed 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1937 – Daffy Duck’s first appearance was in Porky’s Duck Hunt.
1960 – Singer Eddie Cochran died, and Gene Vincent was injured in a UK car accident.
1961 – The unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion began.
1964 – The Ford Mustang was introduced to the North American market.
1966 – Policemen Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff reported chasing a UFO at 5:00 AM in Portage County, Ohio
1973 (Tornado) Balurchar, Bangladesh
2011 – Game of Thrones premiered on HBO
2014 – NASA’s Kepler confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
Trivia for April 18 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica was laid.
1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.
1906 (Earthquake) At 5:13 AM, an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California.
1923 – Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built”, opened.
1924 – Simon & Schuster published the first crossword puzzle book.
1930 – BBC reported there was no news, and then played out with piano music.
1983 – The Disney Channel began as a cable channel
1983 – A suicide bomber destroyed the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
1989 – In the People’s Republic of China (PRC), student protests grew until the Chinese government eventually suppressed them in June, during what came to be known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
1995 – Rox became the first television show distributed via the internet
2012 – Dick Clark, host of “American Bandstand” and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” died.
2014 – 16 people were killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest.
Trivia for April 19 1775 – The American Revolution began in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1897 – The first Boston Marathon was held.
1919 – Leslie Irvin made the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a self-contained parachute.
1956 – American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
1963 (Tornado) Cooch Behar, India
1977 – The Amazing Spider-Man debuted on CBS
1987 – The Tracey Ullman Show featured a short with “The Simpsons”
1993 – At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the FBI launched a tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending with a fire that killed 80 members, including 22 children.
1995 – A massive truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168 people.
2009 – Cake Boss premiered on TLC
Trivia for April 20 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (New York City).
1841 – The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allen Poe, was published in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. It is considered the first detective story.
1871 – The Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law in stopping the Ku Klux Klan.
1912 – Opening day for baseball’s Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston.
1926 – Western Electric and the Warner Brothers film studio officially introduced Vitaphone, a new process that would enable the addition of sound to film.
1999 – At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people and wounded 23 more before killing themselves.
2008 – Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy Car race
2010 – The Deepwater Horizon, run by British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers.
Trivia for April 21 753 BC – Romulus and his twin brother Remus founded Rome.
1895 – Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and Gray, demonstrate the “Panopticon” – the first movie projector developed in the United States.
1918 – Above the Somme River in France, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, was killed by Allied fire, either by an air fight or from the ground.
1930 – 320 people were dead and another 130 were seriously injured in a prison fire at the Ohio State Penitentiary.
1981 – “Weird Al” Yankovic made his first national television appearance on The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder
1986 – Geraldo Rivera hosted a live, highly promoted two-hour syndicated special The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vault. They found nothing
1990 – Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue aired, a special program that warned children about the dangers of drugs and featured characters from several Saturday morning children’s shows, was simulcast by ABC, BET, CBS, Fox, NBC, USA Network, and Nickelodeon.
1992 – The first discoveries of planets outside of our solar system (two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12) were announced by astronomers Alexander Wolszczan and Dale Frail.
Trivia for April 22 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés established a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1864 – The U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandated that the inscription ‘In God We Trust’ would be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1876 – The first-ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Stockings. Boston won the game 6-5.
1912 – Pravda, the “voice” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
1970 – Earth Day was the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, and this year initiated the annual event.
1978 – The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) made their first appearance on Saturday Night Live.
1998 – Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened at Walt Disney World.
2000 – US Federal Agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, and sent him back to Cuba.
Trivia for April 23 1564 – William Shakespeare was born. He went on to write 38 plays and invent dozens of English words.
1635 – The first public school in the Americas, the Boston Latin School, was founded in Boston.
1940 – Rhythm Club Fire (or The Natchez Dance Hall Holocaust) Natchez, Mississippi killed 198 people.
1961 – Judy Garland performed at Carnegie Hall, the performance is often called “the greatest night in showbiz history.”
2005 – First YouTube video was uploaded, titled “Me at the zoo”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
Trivia for April 24 1184 BC – The fall of Troy (with the Trojan Horse) took place, according to tradition.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, the News-Letter, was published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1800 – The Library of Congress was established.
1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, set sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop “Spray”.
1908 (Tornado) Amite, Louisiana and Purvis Missouri
1982 – Jane Fonda’s first Workout video was released.
1990 – STS-31 – The Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Trivia for April 25 1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, committed suicide during a peasant rebellion.
1719 – Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published.
1792 – Highwayman (thief) Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1859 – Ground was broken for opened the Suez Canal by British and French engineers. The 100-mile canal opened ten years later.
1901 – New York became the first US state to require automobile license plates.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund was incorporated.
1947 – President Harry Truman opened the two-lane White House bowling alley.
1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson published “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid” describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1954 – The first practical solar cell was demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
1982 – Israel completed the withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 – Pioneer 10 traveled beyond Pluto’s orbit.
1992- Growing Pains and Who’s The Boss aired their final episodes
Trivia for April 26 662 (Earthquake) Iran
1278 – Imprisoned for murder, John le F*cker sent a letter asking for bail, the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word “f*ck”.
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Traditionally baptized three days after birth, this is how we know his birthday was April 23.
1721 (Earthquake) Tabriz, Iran
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established.
1954 – Polio vaccine trials began.
1977 – Studio 54 opened at 254 West 54th Street in New York City.
1986 – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, Ukraine
1989 (Tornado) Daulatpur-Salturia Tornado, Bangladesh killed 1300 people and injured 12,000.
1978 – Ringo Starr’s, Ringo, a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper, airs on NBC, with George Harrison narrating.
2010 – Boobquake was envisioned by Jennifer McCreight. An estimated 200,000 people participated worldwide, and the epicenter was considered the Purdue Bell Tower in West Lafayette, Indiana.
2011 – The Voice premiered on NBC
Trivia for April 27 4977 BC – The Universe was created, according to Johannes Kepler.
1667 – Blind writer John Milton sold his copyright to ‘Paradise Lost’ for 10 pounds. He needed the money because he was penniless at the time.
1865 – SS Sultana explosion, Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee.
1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
1956 – Rocky Marciano retired as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
2002 – The last successful telemetry from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, launched in 1972.
2014 – Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were declared saints.
Trivia for April 28 1789 – The HMS Bounty was taken over in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the first mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters were set adrift in a small boat.
1965 – My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand’s first TV special, aired on CBS.
1967 – World boxing champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.) refused to be inducted into the US Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title.
1975 – Tom Snyder interviewed ex-Beatle John Lennon on The Tomorrow Show
1988 – Over Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and fell to her death when part of the plane’s fuselage ripped open in mid-flight.
1994- The Simpsons aired its 100th episode
2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist.
Trivia for April 29 1962 – ABC’s Wide World of Sports premiered.
1945 – The US Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberated the Dachau concentration camp.
1968 – The musical, Hair, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway,
1991 (Cyclone) Bangladesh Cyclone, in Bangladesh, killed 135,000 people.
1993 – A cartoon version of Barry White appeared on the fourth season finale of The Simpsons.
1992 – Rodney King trial verdict announced. Four police officers who had been charged with using excessive force in arresting black motorist Rodney King a year earlier were acquitted. Rioting ensued – over the next three days 53 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.
1996 – TV Land network made its debut.
2011 – The Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Kate Middleton.
Trivia for April 30 1789 – In New York City, George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase from France, for 15 million dollars, also included much (if not all of) of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1900 – Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, in Hollywood.
1939 – The New York World’s Fair opened at Flushing Meadow Park in Queens.
1948 – The Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle, debuted at an auto show in Amsterdam.
1966 – The Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco.
1989 – CNBC, the first NBC cable channel and the first financial cable channel, began transmitting.
1992 – The finale for The Cosby Show aired on NBC
1992- The Nickelodeon time capsule was buried at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, FL.
1993 – Tennis star Monica Seles was stabbed by Gunter Parchein in Hamburg, Germany.
1997 – During the “Puppy” episode of “Ellen” it was revealed that the main/title character (Ellen) was gay
