NATIONAL Tax Day [except this year, Tax Day is not until April 18]
NATIONAL Take a Wild Guess Day
NATIONAL Glazed Spiral Ham Day
NATIONAL Rubber Eraser Day
NATIONAL Titanic Remembrance Day
NATIONAL Auctioneers Day [third Saturday in April]
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut
1912 With her band playing on the deck in the North Atlantic, the ocean liner Titanic sinks at 2:27 am
1923 Insulin becomes generally available for people suffering with diabetes
1955 Ray Kroc starts the McDonald’s chain of fast food restaurants
2013 Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others
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