CMN Almanac
Today is Sunday, April 2nd, the 9nd day of the year. There are 273
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES Autism Awareness Month,
National Humor Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, Lawn
and Garden Month, National Poetry Month, National Pecan
Month, Stress Awareness Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month,
Library Week, Children’s Book Day, National Peanut Butter and
Jelly Day, Reconciliation Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Gregory Abbott, 69, singer
Larry Drew, 65, basketball player/coach
Willie Green, 57, football player
Traci Braxton, 51, reality TV star
Deon Richmond, 45, actor
Yung Joc, 40, singer
Mike Johnson, 36, football player
Roscoe Dash, 33, rapper
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Booker Little, 85, trumpeter (d. 1961)
Marvin Gaye, 84, singer (d. 1984)
Rodney King, 58, police brutality victim (d. 2012)
DEATHS
Edwin Star, 2003, singer (b. 1942)
ON THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1513 – Florida “discovered”, claimed for Spain by Ponce De
Leon.
1902 – The first motion picture theater opens in L.A.
1956 – As The World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere
on CBS-TV.
1969 – The Milwaukee Bucks sign Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar).
1986 – Alabama Governor George Wallace announces that he
will not seek a 5th term in office and that he was retiring from
public life.
1984 – John Thompson of Georgetown University becomes the
first Black head coach to win the NCAA basketball tournament.
1987 – Pitcher, Dwight “Doc” Gooden enters drug rehab for
cocaine addiction.
2005 – James Stewart Jr. becomes the first African American
to win a major motor sports event.
HOROSCOPE
Your sign’s paired element is fire and in fact, you have the only fundamental connection with the element of all the zodiac signs. Your special relationship with fire gives you the initiating and self-starting qualities of a spontaneous flame. Additionally, it is the influence of fire that can be credited with the burning passion that is so heavily intertwined with your being. As you embrace fire’s positive qualities, your passion will burn with even greater fortitude. However, you should be weary of the impatience that plagues all fire zodiac signs.