April 15 - Waiting Room

Waiting Room

Overheard

E (looking into the fridge): Ooh! I want pizza for lunch!
D: It's got pepperoni. It's not really good for you.
E: Pizza's good for me! Cheese is good for me, tomato sauce is good for me...

This Day In History

1738

Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

1755

Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

1817

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

1892

The General Electric Company is formed.

1912

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.^*

1923

Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.

1924

Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1947

Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

1955

McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Famous Birthdays

1452

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)

1707

Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)

1710

William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)

1741

Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)

1889

Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)

1922

Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor

1924

Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor

1952

Brian Muir, British sculptor and creator of Darth Vader

1959

Emma Thompson, English actress

1982

Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer

1990

Emma Watson, English actress

* - We usually leave disasters off the calendar, but since it (eventually) brought us Downton Abbey we're making an exception.