Born On This Day:

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806
• Charles Pierre Baudelaire, 1821
• King Leopold II Belgium, 1835
• Charles Steinmetz, 1865
• Sol Hurok, 1888
• Efrem Zimbalist, 1890
• Mary Pickford, 1893
• Tommy Manville, 1894
• Michel Simon, 1895
• Paul Robeson, 1898
• Lord David Cecil, 1902
• Ward Bond, 1904
• J. William Fulbright, 1905
• Hugh Gaitskell, 1906
• Robert Helpmann, 1909
• Hugh Hefner, 1926
• Tom Lehrer, 1928
• Michael Learned, 1929
• Cheeta (the Chimp), 1932
• Carl Perkins, 1932
• Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1933
• Dennis Quaid, 1954
• Iain Duncan Smith, 1954
• Seve Ballesteros, 1957
• Jacques Villeneuve, 1971
• Keshia Knight Pulliam, 1979

Died On This Day:

• King Edward IV, 1483
• Lorenzo de' Medici, 1492
• François Rabelais, 1553
• Sir Francis Bacon, 1626
• William Law, 1761
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882
• Queen Isabella II Spain, 1904
• Helena Modjeska, 1909
• Mrs. Patrick Campbell, 1940
• Frank Lloyd Wright, 1959
• Linda Darnell, 1965
• Phil Ochs suicide, 1976
• John Henry Faulk, 1990
• Richard Condon, 1996
• Sidney Lumet, 2011

Today's Events:

• 1388 - Six hundred Swiss men of Glarus in stunning victory over 6,000 Austrian invaders at Näfels.
• 1413 - Henry V crowned King of England.
• 1483 - 12 year-old Edward V becomes King of England on death of Edward IV; to reign only 77 days.
• 1682 - La Salle discovers mouth of the Mississippi river; names it Louisiana and claims it for France.
• 1770 - Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay, S.E. Coast Australia.
• 1865 - Robert E. Lee surrenders to U.S. Grant forces at Appomattox-the beginning of the end to Civil War.
• 1896 - Government of Canada takes possession of all Hudson Bay Company property.
• 1940 - Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
• 1942 - Bataan surrenders to the Japanese WWII; tomorrow 5,200 U.S. soldiers to die in Death March.
• 1992 - Manuel Noriega convicted of eight crimes; first foreign criminal head of state to be convicted in U.S.
• 2003 - Fall of Baghdad; Saddam Hussein statues come tumbling down in Second Gulf War. Looting. Chaos.
• 2005 - Charles, Prince of Wales, marries Camilla Parker Bowles, who becomes Duchess of Cornwall.

Holiday:

• Bataan Day in Philippines

Non-Specific Holiday:

• PESACH or Passover (Jewish), begins 15th day of lunar month Nisan thru 22nd
• PALM SUNDAY, Sunday before Easter and first day of Holy Week.
• MAUNDY THURSDAY, Thursday before Easter
• GOOD FRIDAY, Friday before Easter
• EASTER (SUNDAY) (March to May) the first Sunday after the first full moon after the veral equinox (March 22-April 25) in Western churches;
• EASTER MONDAY, Monday after Easter.
• CH'ING MING, Festival of Pure Brightness in China (Beginning of second moon (about March 21)
• NAEFELSERFAHRT, Swiss pilgrimage the first Thursday in April to Näfels
• BAISAKHI (in India) or VOISHU (in Kerala) or BOHAG BIHU (in Assam) - (Hindu New Year Festival)
• VESAK (Commemoration of birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha) celebrated Southeast Asia.
• MOTHER'S DAY (U.S.), second Sunday in May
• FESTIVAL OF JOAN OF ARC in France, second Sunday in May
• MEMORIAL DAY (U.S.), Last Monday in May
• MAHAVIR JAYANTI, Indian festival celebrating birth of Lord Mahavira, celebrated early April
• AKSHAYA TRITIYA, Hindu Festival, celebrated late April
• DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME - begins first Sunday in April - clocks forward
• Arbor Day - last Friday in April