APRIL 17, 2020

Today is:

National Cheeseball Day — Who doesn’t love these puffed grain balls covered in neon yellow cheese?

National Kickball Day — A playground classic for years.  Line up and pick your teams!  There’s nothing like the sound of the big rubber ball when it’s kicked.

International Haiku Poetry Day — Try writing your own 5-7-5 syllable poem:  Start a line with five.  Next one seven syllables.  Five more gives haiku.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

	ALEXANDER CARTWRIGHT (1820-1892) — American firefighter; considered to be the inventor of baseball.
	J.P. MORGAN (1837-1913) — American banker and financier.  One of the figureheads of America’s “Gilded Age”
	“ROWDY” RODDY PIPER  (1954-2015) — Canadian professional wrestler and actor.
	SEAN BEAN (1959) — English actor (Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, The Martian)
	BOOMER ESIASON (1961) — American former football player (quarterback) and sports commentator.

 

TODAY IN HISTORY

1861 – Virginia’s secession convention votes in favor of secession, becoming the 8th state to join the Confederate States of America.
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes its highest one day total: 11,747 people.
1961– The Bay of Pigs Invasion begins with a group of CIA-backed Cuban exiles land on the island and attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1970 – Apollo 13 returns to Earth after an in flight disaster nearly killed all aboard on their mission to the moon.