ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC
Today is the 92nd day of 2024 and the 14th day of spring.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1826, Samuel Morey received the patent for the first internal combustion engine.
In 1945, Operation Iceberg began as U.S. troops landed on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which required the surgeon general's warning on tobacco products and banned cigarette ads on radio and TV.
In 2011, a mob protesting the burning of the Quran attacked the United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, causing the deaths of 14 people.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), German political leader; Edmond Rostand (1868-1918), playwright; Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), composer; Milan Kundera (1929-2023), author; Debbie Reynolds (1932-2016), actress; Ali MacGraw (1939- ), actress; Samuel Alito (1950- ), Supreme Court justice; Rachel Maddow (1973- ), TV personality; David Oyelowo (1976- ), actor; Asa Butterfield (1997- ), actor.
TODAY'S FACT: Two monumental innovations in meteorology occurred on April 1: In 1875, Francis Galton published in The Times of London the first newspaper weather map; in 1960, TIROS-1, the first weather satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1985, the eighth-seeded Villanova Wildcats defeated the heavily favored Georgetown Hoyas 66-64 in the NCAA championship game.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless." -- Milan Kundera, "Immortality"
TODAY'S NUMBER: $2.68 trillion -- value of Apple Inc. in March 2024. The company was founded in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on this day in 1976.
TODAY'S MOON: Last quarter moon (April 1).