A thought for the day: I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard ... and achieving as much as I could. -- U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan

On this date in history:

In 1788, Maryland ratified the U.S. Constitution, becoming the seventh state of the Union.

In 1789, the most famous of all naval mutinies took place aboard the HMS Bounty en route from Tahiti to Jamaica.

In 1915, the International Congress of Women, convening in The Hague, selected Miss ...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- British King Edward IV in 1442
- James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, in 1758
- British engineer/mathematician/physicist/inventor Hertha Marks Ayrton in 1854
- actor Lionel Barrymore in 1878
- German industrialist Oskar Schindler, credited with saving almost 1,...Read more

Today is Sunday, April 28, the 119th day of 2024 with 247 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening star is Jupiter.

A thought for the day: It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. -- American actor Shirley MacLaine

On this date in history:

In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by natives of the Philippine Islands during his attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the world. His co-leader, Juan Sebastian de Elcano, completed the voyage in 1522.

In 1749, George Frideric Handel's Fireworks Music was first performed...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- English historian Edward Gibbon in 1737
- philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft in 1759
- Samuel F.B. Morse, American artist/inventor of magnetic telegraphy, in 1791
- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States/Civil War general, in 1822
- Wallace Carothers, inventor of ...Read more

Today is Saturday, April 27, the 118th day of 2024 with 248 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening star is Jupiter.

A thought for the day: Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. -- American comedian/actor Lucille Ball

On this day in history:

In 1607, the first British colonists to establish a permanent settlement in America landed at Cape Henry, Va.

In 1933, Nazi Germany's secret police, better known as the Gestapo, is formed by Hermann Goering. The Allies declared the Gestapo a criminal organization during the Nuremberg trials and ...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in 121
- Scottish philosopher David Hume in 1711
- naturalist John James Audubon in 1785
- French artist Eugene Delacroix in 1798
- landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1822
- singer Ma Rainey, born Gertrude Pridgett, in 1886
- ...Read more

Today is Friday, April 26, the 117th day of 2024 with 249 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening star is Jupiter.

A thought for the day: Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket. -- American dancer/actor Ginger Rogers

On this date in history:

In 1507, German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller published a book in which he named the newly discovered continent of the New World America after the man he mistakenly thought had discovered it, Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

In 1792, La Marseillaise, composed by Claude Joseph ...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England, in 1599
- inventor/physicist Guglielmo Marconi in 1874
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1906
- pioneer broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow in 1908
- singer Ella Fitzgerald in 1917
- artist Edwin Parker Cy ...Read more

Today is Thursday, April 25, the 116th day of 2024 with 250 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus. Evening star is Jupiter.