Daily Calendar for Sunday, April 27, 2025
Question of the Day
When something is done in secret or on the sly, it is said to be done “on the Q.T.” Where did this originate, and what does Q.T. mean?
It’s simply an abbreviation of the word quiet. In the late 1800s, quiet came to mean “clandestine,” or “secretive” (e.g., “I’d like to have a word with you on the quiet.”). Sometime later, it was reduced to the slang “Q.T.”
Advice of the Day
To help you have more energy, wear red.
Home Hint of the Day
In the spring, give your lawn a good brisk raking, then reseed any bare spots. Lightly mulch reseeded areas with peat moss or grass clippings.
Word of the Day
Snub
A post on a dock or shore, around which a rope is thrown to check the motion of a vessel.
Puzzle of the Day
What do sea monsters eat?
Fish and ships!
Died
- Ferdinand Magellan (explorer) –
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet) –
- Julius Sterling Morton (Arbor Day founder) –
- Edward R. Murrow (broadcast journalist) –
- Ruth Handler (co-founded Mattel and created Barbie) –
Born
- Samuel Morse (inventor) –
- Ulysses S. Grant (18th U.S. president) –
- Rogers Hornsby (baseball player) –
- Coretta Scott King (civil rights leader) –
- Sheena Easton (singer) –
- Chris Carpenter (baseball player) –
- William Moseley (actor) –
Events
- Astronomer John Russell Hind discovered a new variable star in Ophiuchus –
- Steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee –
- A hearing aid was patented by F. D. Clarke and M. G. Foster –
- Fourth modern Olympic games opened in London, England –
- U.S. Soil Conservation Service established by Congress –
- Babe Ruth Day –
- Expo ‘67 was officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson –
- L. Patrick Gray resigns as acting director of the FBI due to the Watergate fiasco –
- Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, successfully took off on its maiden flight –
- Oh Eun-sun from South Korea became the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest mountains –
- An odd green light shot across the night sky in southern California. Experts concluded that it likely was a meteor. –
Weather
- The temperature in New York City reached 92 degrees F –
- Pahala, Hawaii, reached 100F (37.8C), which, at the time, was the highest temperature ever recorded for the state –
- Ninety-four degrees F, Hartford, CT –
- 27 inches of snow fell in a 24-hours in Minot, North Dakota –
- Downtown Los Angeles hit 102 degrees F, shattering the April 27 mark of 94 degrees F set in 1881 –