• Hey Day began as "Moving-Up Day" in 1916. It is the day when juniors are proclaimed to be seniors. Slated for April 20th this year, hundreds of Penn juniors plan to continue the tradition of sporting red T-shirts, canes and plastic foam hats as they picnic and then walk to College Hall for the declaration.
• 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
• 1999 Columbine High School Massacre
• 1689 : Siege of Londonderry begins
• 1871 : Ku Klux Act passed by Congress
• 1902 : Curies isolate radium
• 1777: New York adopts state constitution
• 1931 : First woman appointed to auto board
• 1861 : Lee resigns from U.S. Army
• 1978 : Korean Air Lines jet forced down over Soviet Union
• 1906 : San Francisco firefighters halt massive blaze
• 1896 : First Vitascope show (flim slide)
• 1841 : First detective story is published
• 1898 : McKinley asks for declaration of war with Spain
• 1970 : Nixon announces more troop withdrawals
• 1945 : Operation Corncob is launched while Hitler celebrates his birthday
• National Marijuana Day
  
  
  

Famous Birthday Days:

• Luther Vandross (Aladin " I can show you the world."
• Carmen Electra (yes the hot one)
• Maricus Aurelius ( the old guy in gladiator)
• Adolf Hitlar (that SOB you all know)
• Napolean Bonaparte III (he is french)
  
  
• Benny Hill (died)