April 30th, 2021

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on April.30th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
National Oatmeal Cookie Day
Today in History:
1859-Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary periodical "All the Year Round" (weekly installments until Nov 26)
1952-Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television.
1953-Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League
1958-Ted Williams is 10th major league player to get 1,000 extra-base hits.
1967-Ostankino Tower, the then highest free-standing structure in the world at 540m is finished in Moscow, Russia.
1989-World Wide Web (WWW) is first launched in the public domain by CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
1997-Big Ben stops at 12:11 PM for 54 minutes.
2013-Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years, following the abdication of his mother, Queen Beatrix.
2018-New species of water beetle from Malaysian Borneo’s Maliau Basin named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
2018-World's oldest known spider, a female trapdoor, dies after being killed by a wasp sting in Western Australia, aged 43.
 
Celebrities Birthdays:
Paul Gross, Canadian actor
Johnny Galecki, American actor
Kirsten Dunst, American actress
Gal Gadot, Israeli actress
Kunal Nayyar, British-Indian actor and writer
Kendricke Bullard, NFL wide receiver
Matt Martin, Hamden, NHL defenseman
Isiah Thomas, NBA forward
 
Movies Released on this day:
2004-Mean Girls
2018-Avengers: Infinity War
 
Songs Released on this day:
1976- Silly Love Songs- Wings

Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend. 

Happy Birthday to Ralph and happy early birthday to Heather, we hope both of you have wonderful birthdays.