Here are a few random facts to start your morning off:
During WWII, The British Navy destroyed French vessels after France fell to Germany
The first death in the American Civil War was a horse
Johnny Cash has a species of tarantula named after him
The word “disaster” means “bad star” in Ancient Greek
The start-up sound for Window 95 was made on an Apple Macintosh computer
Your weather forecast for today:
A minimum of 11°C and a maximum of 18°C
Periods of clouds and sunshine with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm; cool
Sunrise: 6:19 AM
Sunset: 6:02 PM
Today in History:
Born on this day:
1979 Heath Ledger
Australian actor, director
1979 Roberto Luongo
Canadian ice hockey player
1952 Gary Moore
Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
1928 Maya Angelou
American author, poet, actress, director
1875 Pierre Monteux
French conductor
Deaths On This Day – 4 April
2013 Roger Ebert
American journalist, critic, screenwriter
1984 Oleg Antonov
Soviet aircraft designer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company
1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr.
American minster, activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1929 Karl Benz
German engineer, businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz
