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Baseball Opening Day

Today is Baseball Opening Day! Often hailed as the true beginning of spring, Opening Day is the most important day of the year for baseball lovers across the country. For the next six months, over 750 players on thirty Major League teams will compete in 2,430 games.

Baseball has been revered as America’s National Pastime for over a century. Opening Day is a national event that brings fans together to celebrate the beginning of a new season. In recent years it has also provided an arena for “political pitchers.” Since 1910, every President except Jimmy Carter has thrown a ceremonial first pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series.

To celebrate Baseball Opening Day, tune in to watch the game, head outside to throw a few pitches, or invite friends and family over for hotdogs and traditional ballpark snacks. Play ball!

Today is also National Caramel Day 

 
April is Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month & National Grilled Cheese Month

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History for April 5  1614 - American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia. 1792 - U.S. President George Washington cast the first presidential veto. The measure was for apportioning representatives among the states. 1843 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong to be a British crown colony. 1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as British prime minister. 1985 - An estimated 5,000 radio stations around the world simultaneously played the song "We Are the World." 1998 - The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan opened becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world. It links Shikoku and Honshu. The bridge cost about $3.8 billion. _________________________________________________________ "Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase." --William Congreve