🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Wednesday, April 1. Today, we're checking out the ruins of Pompeii, the Big Bang theory, the first MLB strike, how Apple got started, the first NHL players' strike, Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, and a whole bunch more — quick, to the point, and easy to digest.
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🚀 Time Machine
-527
Justin I names his nephew Justinian I, co-ruler and successor to the throne.
-1748
Spaniard Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre rediscovers the ruins of Pompeii.
-1946
Undersea earthquake off Alaska triggers a massive tsunami that kills 159 people in Hawaii.
-1948
American cosmologists Ralph Alpher, Hans Bethe, and George Gamow proposed the "Big Bang" theory in Physical Review.
-1970
President Richard Nixon signed legislation banning cigarette ads on television and radio.
-1972
Major League Baseball's first collective players' strike begins.
-1974
Ayatollah Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran.
-1976
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer in Jobs' parents' garage in Cupertino, California.
-1992
NHL players strike for the first time in 75 years; 10-day action results in playoff bonuses, licensing control, and free agency.
-2001
The Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
-2017
Bob Dylan gets the Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm.
📸 Snapshot
The first sound-and-sight television broadcast was at station W2XCR in New York City, featuring prominent figures and newspaper artists, 1931
🗨️ Last Words
“I believe everything I have written about immortality.”