Willie Nelson is 75 today.
Cloris Leachman is 82. Kirsten Dunst is 26.
Casey Jones wrecked his train on April 30th in 1900.
George Washington took office as the first president of the U.S. on this date in 1789. His term had begun on March 4th, but he’d booked flights on American Airlines and didn’t get from Virginia to New York City—then the capital—until the end of April.
Louisiana entered the union as the 18th state on this date in 1812.