Thursday, April 15, 2004

 

Spotlight: Personality of the Day: Jackie Robinson became baseball's first black major-league player when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on this date in 1947. Fifty years later his No. 42 became the only number retired across all of Major League Baseball.

Word of the day: chiaroscuro -- the quality of being veiled or partly in shadow (© )

Today's News:

• President Bush -- backs Sharon plan and urges Palestinian leaders to match Israel's "boldness and courage." (story)
• George Tenet -- says that it would take 5 more years to "have the kind of clandestine service our country needs." (story)
• Matt Groening -- to make first voice appearance on The Simpsons (story)

Today's History:

• McDonald's -- first opened in Des Plaines, IL (1955)
• Andrew Johnson -- sworn in as president after Lincoln was assassinated (1865)
• Bergen-Belsen -- Nazi concentration camp liberated by British and Canadian troops (1945)

Today's Birthdays:

• Leonardo DaVinci -- painter of the Mona Lisa (1452-1519)
• Henry James -- Author of The Portrait of a Lady (1843-1916)
• Emma Watson -- Hermione in the Harry Potter movies turns 14