ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC
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Today is the 116th day of 2025 and the 38th day of spring.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, was killed by Union troops in Virginia.
In 1937, German and Italian planes bombed the city of Guernica in Spain.
In 1986, a reactor ruptured at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Soviet Union, spreading radioactive material over much of Europe.
In 2000, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), artist; Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), landscape architect; Ma Rainey (1886-1939), singer-songwriter; Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), philosopher; Charles Richter (1900-1985), seismologist; Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), author; I.M. Pei (1917-2019), architect; Carol Burnett (1933- ), actress/comedian; Giancarlo Esposito (1958- ), actor; Jet Li (1963- ), actor; Kevin James (1965- ), actor/comedian; Channing Tatum (1980- ), actor; Aaron Judge (1992- ), baseball player.
TODAY'S FACT: The United States has 94 operational nuclear reactors, more than any other nation.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1941, the organ, now a staple at Major League Baseball stadiums, made its debut at Wrigley Field, during a game in which the Chicago Cubs lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-2.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
TODAY'S NUMBER: 57,915 -- square miles contaminated by radioactive material from the Chernobyl disaster, an area approximately the size of Illinois.
TODAY'S MOON: Between last quarter moon (April 20) and new moon (April 27).