On This Day:
Friday April 4, 2014 This is the 94th day of the year, with 271 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: musical voices For centuries, musical practice has recognized six basic voice types: contralto, mezzo-soprano, and soprano for the female voice, and bass, baritone, and tenor for male. Sex is one of the first determinants of voice type in the two categories, while body type or physical constitution is the second determinant: dimensions of the larynx vary in fairly strict conformity to body type. In an opera company, the leading female soloist (prima donna) is usually a soprano, the highest female voice. The leading man often has a high tenor voice. Singers with lower voices, such as the female contralto or the male bass, may also be used for solos.
Holidays Feast day of St. Ambrose, St. Isidore, St. Plato, St. Tigernach, St. Benedict the Black, and Saints Agathopus and Theodulus.
Senegal: Independence Day.
Events 1581 - English navigator Francis Drake returned home after sailing around the world, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.
1818 - Congress decided the U.S. flag would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 white stars on a blue field, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union.
1850 - The city of Los Angeles was incorporated.
1887 - Susanna Medora Salter became the first woman elected mayor of an American community -- Argonia, Kansas.
1902 - The Rhodes scholarships were established. The founder of Rhodesia and empire builder Cecil Rhodes set $10 aside for a scholarship for Americans at Oxford University.
1932 - Vitamin C was first isolated by C.C. King at the University of Pittsburgh.
1945 - U.S. forces liberated the Nazi concentration camp Ohrdruf in Germany during World War II.
1949 - Twelve nations, including the United States, signed the North Atlantic Treaty and established NATO.
1964 - The Beatles set an all-time record on the Billboard magazine chart, with the five top songs being theirs ("Can't Buy Me Love," "Twist and Shout," "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," " " Please Please Me"). They also had the number one album.
1974 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied Babe Ruth's career home run record by hitting his 714th round-tripper in Cincinnati.
1983 - The space shuttle Challenger was launched for the first time.
1984 - Bob Bell retired as Bozo the Clown on WGN-TV in Chicago after 24 years.
Births 1802 - Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and humanitarian.
1821 - Linus Yale, American, inventor of the Yale lock.
1823 - William Siemens, German-born British metallurgist and inventor.
1885 - Arthur Murray (Teichman), American dancer, founder of dance studios.
1906 - John Cameron Swayze, American newsman, TV panelist.
1915 - Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield), American blues singer, guitarist.
1928 - Maya Angelou, American poet and author.
Deaths 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American worker for peace, assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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