First denial, then acceptance...

To my surprise, I'm rather enjoying today.

It's amazing outside -- sunny and warm, and green things are poking out everywhere.

Things that have occurred on April 19 in previous years:

- 1775 - American Revolutionary war, the "shot heard round the world"
- 1810 - Venezuela achieves home rule
- 1904 - Much of Toronto (my home, amusingly) is destroyed by fire
- 1927 - Mae West jailed for obscenity
- 1936 - first day of the Great Uprising in Palestine
- 1943 - Bicycle Day -- a swiss chemist takes LSD for the first time
- 1956 - Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier
- 1961 - Bay Of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails
- 1971 - Charles Manson sentenced to life
- 1993 - Waco standoff ends when fire breaks out and 81 people die
- 1995 - Oklahoma bombing... 168 people die
- 2005 - Pope Benedict XVI elected

I share a birthday with Jayne Mansfield, Tim Curry, James Franco, Kate Hudson, Hayden Christensen, and Dudley Moore. People who died today include Charles Darwin, Pierre Curie, Daphne DuMarier, a pile of nobility and a pope.

And I now know spring is here -- I bought some watermelon and it doesn't suck for once.