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Today is the 94th day of 2013 and the 16th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1949, 12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pact.

In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tenn.

In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, N.M.

In 2003, U.S. military forces seized Saddam International Airport in Baghdad.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Tris Speaker (1888-1958), baseball player; Robert Sherwood (1896-1955), playwright; Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), writer; Muddy Waters (1915-1983), blues musician; Maya Angelou (1928- ), poet/author; Craig T. Nelson (1944- ), actor; Hugo Weaving (1960- ), actor; David Cross (1964- ), actor/comedian; Robert Downey Jr. (1965- ), actor; David Blaine (1973- ), magician; Heath Ledger (1979-2008), actor.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1982, Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers finished the season with 212 points. He remains the only player in NHL history to top 200 points in a season.

TODAY'S FACT: The two official languages of NATO are English and French.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -- Maya Angelou

TODAY'S NUMBER: 300,000 -- people who attended the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta.

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (April 2) and new moon (April 10).

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Today is the 93rd day of 2013 and the 15th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1882, American outlaw Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford, a member of James' own gang who hoped to earn a state reward.

In 1948, President Harry Truman signed into law the Marshall Plan aid bill, which was designed to help rebuild war-torn Europe.

In 1996, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski was arrested at his cabin near Lincoln, Montana.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Washington Irving (1783-1859), writer; Marlon Brando (1924-2004), actor; Doris Day (1924- ), singer/actress; Jane Goodall, (1934- ), primatologist; Sandra Boynton (1953- ), children's author; Alec Baldwin (1958- ), actor; David Hyde Pierce (1959- ), actor; Eddie murphy (1961- ), actor/comedian; Cobie Smulders (1982- ), actress; Amanda Bynes (1986- ), actress.

TODAY'S FACT: In 1988, Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins won the NHL's Art Ross trophy as the league's top scorer, ending Wayne Gretzky's streak of consecutive scoring titles at seven.

TODAY'S FACT: One can get a rough estimate of the outdoor temperature in degrees Fahrenheit by counting the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds and adding 40.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening." -- Marlon Brando

TODAY'S NUMBER: $10,000 -- reward offered by Missouri Governor Thomas Crittenden in 1891 for the capture of Jesse James. After being sentenced to death for first degree murder in the killing of James, Robert Ford and his brother, Charles, received a full pardon and were awarded $500.

TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (April 2) and new moon (April 10).

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Today is the 92nd day of 2013 and the 14th day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Va., as Union forces closed in on the Confederate capital.

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany.

In 1982, Argentine forces mounted amphibious landings on the British-held Falkland Islands, marking the beginning of the Falklands War.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), writer; Emile Zola (1840-1902), novelist; Max Ernst (1891-1976), artist; Buddy Ebsen (1908-2003), actor; Alec Guinness (1914-2000), actor; Marvin Gaye (1939-1984), singer-songwriter; Emmylou Harris (1947- ), singer; Christopher Meloni (1961- ), actor; Clark Gregg (1962- ), actor; Michael Fassbender (1977- ), actor.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1931, Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old female pitcher, struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition match between the Class AA minor league Chattanooga Lookouts and the New York Yankees.

TODAY'S FACT: German artist Max Ernst created an art technique called "frottage" in which blank paper is placed over an object and rubbed with a pencil or another drawing tool to reproduce the texture or pattern of the object's surface.

TODAY'S QUOTE: " If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." -- Emile Zola

TODAY'S NUMBER: 12,173 -- area (in square kilometers) of the Falkland Islands, which is slightly less than the state of Connecticut.

TODAY'S MOON: Last quarter moon (April 2).