Daily Calendar for Monday, April 1, 2013

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Scott Joplin (ragtime musician & composer) – 1917
Marvin Gaye (singer) – 1984
Martha Graham (dancer & choreographer) – 1991
John Forsythe (actor) – 2010
Misao Okawa (Japanese woman who was recognized as the world’s oldest person at the time. She was born on March 5, 1898, and died at age 117.) – 2015
Dan Robbins (artist who created paint-by-numbers pictures) – 2019
Val Kilmer (actor) – 2025

In Ohio, the Cincinnati Fire Department became the first full-time, salaried fire department in the U.S. – 1853
The U.S. invasion of Okinawa began (WW II) – 1945
The United States Air Force Academy is established – 1954
The satellite Tiros I was launched from Cape Canaveral and eventually transmitted thousands of photographs showing the distribution of Earth’s cloud formations – 1960
Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer, Inc. – 1976
Nunavut territory created – 1999
The Netherlands legalized euthanasia – 2002
French acrobat Willy Martignon broke the world record for longest-distance somersaulting slam dunk – 2007

April Fool’s Day Blizzard in the Dakotas, heavy drifting snow – 1877
Houston, Texas, got its first natural waterspout as an April Fools Day joke from Mother Nature, when a high-velocity tornado hit the downtown area and broke into the water table. – 1912
April Fool’s cold, -34 degrees F in Bergland, Michigan, and 16 degrees F in Georgia – 1923
27 degrees F, Atlanta, Georgia – 1987
Blizzard left 37 inches of snow in East Jewett, New York – 1997