- National Stress Awareness Day – The day after taxes are due is a day to decompress. This year taxes have been extended. Let’s take some time recognize what causes you stress and learn how to manage it better.
- Selena Day – Today fans remember the ‘Queen of Tejano Music,’ Selena Quintanilla. She was fatally shot by the president of her fan club in 1995 at the age of 23.
- National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day – Working from home in our pajamas is LIFE! If you are back to work slip back into your jammies.
BIRTHDAYS! Friday, April, 16
Sadie Sink, 19 - Max on "Stranger Things"
Chance The Rapper, 28
Lorraine Nicholson, 31 - Jack Nicholson's daughter. She was in "Soul Surfer", the movie about shark attack victim Bethany Hamilton
Claire Foy, 37 - She was Queen Elizabeth on "The Crown"
Gina Carano, 39 - She's been canceled from Disney+ series "The Mandalorian"
Akon, 48 - Rapper "Locked Up"
Gerardo, 56 - "Rico Suave"
Martin Lawrence, 56
Jon Cryer, 56 - Alan Harper on "Two and a Half Men", but to ME he'll always be Duckie in "Pretty in Pink"
Ellen Barkin - 67 - Award winning actress
Bill Belichick, 69 - Coach of the New England Patriots
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 74 - NBA Legend
Selena Quintanilla ( 1971 - 1995) The 'Queen of Tejano' music
Henry Mancini (1924 - 1994) Genius composer of "The Pink Panther" theme. He won 4 Oscars and 20 Grammys.
Charlie Chaplin (1889 -1977 ) One of the most financially successful stars of early Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five.FRIDAY In HISTORY:
1900: US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1929: NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers
1943: Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered hallucinogenic effects of LSD
1992: Nirvana appears on the cover of Rolling Stone with Kurt Cobain wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Corporate Magazines Still Suck."
1999: The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, announced his retirement from the NHL
2003: Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the WA Wizard. He scored 13 points . . . but lost to the Philadelphia 76ers.
2003: Luther Vandross suffers a stroke that leaves him confined to a wheelchair. He dies two years later.
2007: 32 people died after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho, a student at the college who later died by suicide. The Virginia Tech Massacre is one of the deadliest school shootings in our country's history.
2009: Legendary NFL broadcaster John Madden retired after three decades in the booth. He was 73
2018: Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his 2017 album "Damn" making him the first rapper to win the award
