Friday, April 01, 2016

Friday, APRIL 1ST, 2016

hugger-mugger \HUH-guhr-muh-guhr\, noun:
1. A disorderly jumble; muddle; confusion.
2. Secrecy; concealment.
adjective:
1. Confused; muddled; disorderly.
2. Secret.
adverb:
1. In a muddle or confusion.
2. Secretly.
transitive verb:
1. To keep secret.
 intransitive verb:
1. To act in a secretive manner.
The origin of hugger-mugger is unknown; it is perhaps from Anglo-Irish cuggermugger, "a whispering, a low-voiced gossiping," from Irish cogair!, "whisper!"
 
April Fools paranoia

  • When someone is so obsessed by April Fools, they don't trust anyone and don't believe in anything on that day.
-Hey man, wanna go see a movie tomorrow?
-Haha, I see what you did there, you almost had me!
-Dude, stop with this April Fools paranoia, I'm serious!

Holiday
  • April Fools' Day: is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.
History
  • US House of Representatives: achieved a quorum for the first time and elected its first Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania (1789)
  • Royal Air Force: branch of the British Armed Forces was formed (1918)
  • TIROS-1: the first weather satellite was launched; it took off from Cape Canaveral and was operational for 78 days (1960)
  • Apple Inc.: was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (1976)
  • Gmail: Google's web-based email service was launched (2004)
Birthdays
  • William Harvey England 1578
  • Otto Von Bismarck 1815
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 - Composer, musician
  • Lon Chaney 1883 - Actor ("The Phantom of the Opera")
  • Wallace (Fitzgerald) Beery 1885 - Actor ("The Champ", "The Last of the Mohicans")
  • Jagjivan Ram 1908
  • Abraham Maslow 1908
  • Art Lund 1920 - Singer
  • Toshiro Mifune 1920 - Actor ("Midway", "Paper Tiger")
  • William Manchester 1922 - Writer
  • Anne McCaffrey 1926
  • George Grizzard 1928 - Actor ("Bachelor Party", "False Witness")
  • Jane Powell (Suzanne Burce) 1929 - Actress
  • Grace Lee Whitney 1930 - Actress, singer
  • Gordon Jump 1932 - Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
  • Debbie Reynolds (Mary Frances Reynolds) 1932 - Singer, Actress, mother of actress Carrie Fisher
  • Don Hastings 1934 - Actor ("As The World Turns")
  • James Edward Brown 1934 - Singer (The Browns)
  • Ron (Ronald Peter) Perranoski 1936 - Baseball player, coach
  • Eddie King 1938 - Blues singer
  • Ali MacGraw 1938 - Actress
  • Rudolf Isley 1939 - Singer (Isley Brothers)
  • Phil (Philip Henry) Niekro 1939 - Baseball pitcher
  • Guy Trottier 1941 - Hockey player
  • Phil Margo 1942 - Singer (The Tokens)
  • Alan Blakley 1942 - Musician (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes)
  • Carol White 1944
  • Rusty Staub 1944 - Baseball player
  • Heather Young 1945
  • John Barbata 1945 - Drummer (The Turtles)
  • Ronnie Lane (Small Faces) 1946
  • Norm Van Lier 1947 - Basketball player
  • Jimmy Cliff 1948 - Reggae singer
  • Doug Southerland 1948 - Football player
  • Wilie (Guillermo Naranjo) Montanez 1948 - Baseball player
  • Gil Scott-Heron 1949 - Jazz musician
  • Samuel Alito 1950 - U.S. Supreme Court justice
  • Billy Currie 1952 - Musician (Ultravox)
  • Annette O'Toole 1953 - Actress
  • Jeff Porcaro (Toto) 1954
  • Stan Ridgway (Wall of Voodoo) 1955
  • Libby Riddles 1956 - First woman to win the Iditarod dogsled race
  • Mark White 1961 - Musician (ABC)
  • Woody Lee 1968 - Country singer
  • Sung-Hi Lee 1970 - actress, model
  • Method Man 1971 - Rapper
  • Rachel Maddow 1973 - Broadcast journalist
  • Maradalena Maleeva 1975 - Tennis player
  • Bijou Phillips 1980 - Singer
  • Sam Huntington 1982 - Actor
  • Hillary Scott (Lady Antebellum) 1984 - Country singer
  • Josh Zuckerman 1985 - Actor

 
  

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