Monday, April 21, 2025


Tomorrow in
Misc. History


1500 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil.

1876 - Eight baseball teams began the inaugural season of the National League.

1914 - Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles.

1944 - During World War II, the Allies launched a major attack against the Japanese in Hollandia, New Guinea.

1956 - Elvis Presley made his Las Vegas debut at the Frontier Hotel.

1978 - John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd made their first appearance as The Blues Brothers on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."


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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.



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