Daily Calendar for Sunday, April 17, 2022
Born
- Samuel Chase (lawyer) β
- John Pierpont Morgan (business tycoon) β
- Thornton Wilder (author) β
- William Holden (actor) β
- Olivia Hussey (actress) β
- Boomer Esiason (football player) β
- Joel Murray (actor) β
- Jennifer Garner (actress) β
Died
- Benjamin Franklin (U.S. statesman
) β
- Linda McCartney (photographer, singer, activist, & wife of Beatle Paul McCartney) β
- Dr. Robert C. Atkins (cardiologist who introduced the Atkins Dietββ) β
- Doris Roberts (actress) β
- Barbara Bush (U.S. First Lady) β
Events
- Christopher Columbus’s trip financed by Spainβ
- Lewis M. Norton patented a vat for forming pineapple-shape cheeseβ
- First Minot’s Ledge Light in Massachusetts swept away during stormβ
- Song Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here, was copyrightedβ
- Geraldine Mock completed solo flight around the worldβ
- Apollo 13 returned safely to Earth after having major difficultiesβ
- 6-lb. 10-oz. goldfish caught in Lake Hodges, Californiaβ
- Spacelab’s final mission, Neurolab, launchedβ
- Discovery of first Earth-size planet in Habitable Zoneβ publicizedββ
Weather
- Eastern Massachusetts was blanketed with 12-18 inches of snowβ
- Twenty-eight degrees F at St. Louis, Missouriβ
- The Red River in Minnesota and North Dakota reached 20 feet above flood stageβ
- Eastern U.S. heat wave:
80 degrees F, Portland, Maine;
97 degrees F, Newark, New Jersey
β
- Del Rio, Texas, experienced a temperature of 101 degrees Fβ
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