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Daily Calendar for Thursday, April 17, 2014

Born

  • Samuel Chase (lawyer) –
  • John Pierpont Morgan (business tycoon) –
  • Thornton Wilder (author) –
  • William Holden (actor) –
  • Olivia Hussey (actress) –
  • Boomer Esiason (football player) –
  • Joel Murray (actor) –
  • Jennifer Garner (actress) –

Died

  • Benjamin Franklin (U.S. statesman ) –
  • Linda McCartney (photographer, singer, activist, & wife of Beatle Paul McCartney) –
  • Dr. Robert C. Atkins (cardiologist who introduced the Atkins Dietβ€β€œ) –
  • Doris Roberts (actress) –
  • Barbara Bush (U.S. First Lady) –

Events

  • Christopher Columbus’s trip financed by Spain–
  • Lewis M. Norton patented a vat for forming pineapple-shape cheese–
  • First Minot’s Ledge Light in Massachusetts swept away during storm–
  • Song Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here, was copyrighted–
  • Geraldine Mock completed solo flight around the world–
  • Apollo 13 returned safely to Earth after having major difficulties–
  • 6-lb. 10-oz. goldfish caught in Lake Hodges, California–
  • Spacelab’s final mission, Neurolab, launched–
  • Discovery of first Earth-size planet in Habitable Zone” publicized”–

Weather

  • Eastern Massachusetts was blanketed with 12-18 inches of snow–
  • Twenty-eight degrees F at St. Louis, Missouri–
  • The Red River in Minnesota and North Dakota reached 20 feet above flood stage–
  • Eastern U.S. heat wave: 80 degrees F, Portland, Maine; 97 degrees F, Newark, New Jersey –
  • Del Rio, Texas, experienced a temperature of 101 degrees F–

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