I don’t even have to look it up to know that the Queen of England and Rush Limbaugh’s mother share my birth date. Guess what radio show I learned that from
Mom

It is a new day. I woke up with a better memory. Margaret Thatcher ( not Queen Elizabeth) was born on the same day as Rush Limbaugh’s mother. Maybe even the same year. Rush will confirm that later this year as he ALWAYS wishes HIS mother a happy birthday on the air (and mentions his hero, M Thatcher). The point here is, of course, that I notice you rarely remember the birthday of YOUR mother. And just to set the record very straight, YOUR mother is MUCH younger than Margaret Thatcher but, she won’t live forever so you don’t have that many more years to get THAT straight! I’ll be watching for my big HB on Twenty sided (with or without a nod to Rush’s mom and the former occupant of 10 Downing Street)

A Libra

September 19th, 1978

Facts:
1900 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid commit their first robbery together.
1957 – First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test.
1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first recorded instance of the emoticon :-) to an online bulletin board.
2003 – Musician Elliott Smith plays his final concert at Redfest in Salt Lake City, Utah, only weeks before his suicide. (I had to include this one even though its the 4th)

Births:
1551 – King Henry III of France (d. 1589)
1980 – Tegan and Sara Quin, Canadian singer/songwriters
Hermione Granger’s birthday, from J.K. Rowling’s series Harry Potter.

Deaths:
1942 – Condé Nast, American publisher (b. 1873)

April 2:

Events:

68 – Galba, governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Roman emperors begun with Julius Caesar and Augustus.
1513 – Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first European known to do so.
1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1917 – World War I: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1917 – The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.

Births:

742 – Charlemagne (d. 814)
1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (Old style date) (d. 1826)

Deaths:
1872 – Samuel F. B. Morse, American painter and inventor of the telegraph (b. 1791)
1882 – Jesse James, American outlaw, shot in the back of the head by Robert Ford (b. 1847)
2005 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)

I remember that last one. Coming down the stairs for breakfast..
“Oh hey, happy birthday. By the way, the Pope is dead.”
“…”