April 30th

Today is the 30^th of April.  Let’s look at events for this date:

• This date places us 239 days from Christmas.
• Thousands of people I don’t know were born on this day of the year.
• In 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States.
• In 1904, the ice cream cone made its debut at the St. Louis World's Fair.
• In 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide as the Red Army captured Berlin.
• In 1952, Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on television.
• In 1975, Saigon Fell and Uyen, the woman who would become my wife ten years later, fled the city (and her homeland) on one of the last American choppers evacuating Vietnam.
• April 30^th is National Honesty Day.
• Willie Nelson was born on this day of the year.
• I am going to my cabin today.

— Mitchell Hegman