April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
TAX DAY 2017
Tax Day 2018 falls on Tuesday, April 17. Because the typical tax deadline (April 15) fell on a Sunday, the day would have normally been moved to Monday, April 16. There's a problem with that, though.
This year, April 16 is Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in Washington, D.C. Emancipation Day is a holiday set aside to commemorate the 1862 signing of the Emancipation Act by President Abraham Lincoln. Emancipation Day is a legal holiday in D.C. with city workers off the job.
The holiday results in Tax Day 2018 being moved back one more day to Tuesday, April 17.
Tax Day returns to its regular April 15 date for 2019.Actually, Congress originally put tax day on the calendar, when the 16th Amendment, which allows Congress to institute the income tax, was adopted on Feb. 3, 1913, Congress chose March 1―one year and a few dozen days later―as the deadline for filing returns. Then, with the Revenue Act of 1918, Congress inexplicably moved the date forward to March 15. The next overhaul came in 1955, when buried between tax-code revisions was yet another date change, this time to April 15. According to an IRS spokesman, the move "spread out the peak workload," but there's another explanation. Turns out that as the income tax applied to more of the middle class, the government had to issue more refunds. "Pushing the deadline back gives the government more time to hold on to the money," says Ed McCaffery, a University of Southern California law professor and tax guru. Still, the IRS's rigidity works in your favor: By law, it must mail your refund within 45 days or pay you interest. ― Jessica Sung (Fortune Magazine)
NATIONAL CHEESEBALL DAY
TAX DAY 2017
Tax Day 2018 falls on Tuesday, April 17. Because the typical tax deadline (April 15) fell on a Sunday, the day would have normally been moved to Monday, April 16. There's a problem with that, though.
This year, April 16 is Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in Washington, D.C. Emancipation Day is a holiday set aside to commemorate the 1862 signing of the Emancipation Act by President Abraham Lincoln. Emancipation Day is a legal holiday in D.C. with city workers off the job.
The holiday results in Tax Day 2018 being moved back one more day to Tuesday, April 17.
Tax Day returns to its regular April 15 date for 2019.Actually, Congress originally put tax day on the calendar, when the 16th Amendment, which allows Congress to institute the income tax, was adopted on Feb. 3, 1913, Congress chose March 1―one year and a few dozen days later―as the deadline for filing returns. Then, with the Revenue Act of 1918, Congress inexplicably moved the date forward to March 15. The next overhaul came in 1955, when buried between tax-code revisions was yet another date change, this time to April 15. According to an IRS spokesman, the move "spread out the peak workload," but there's another explanation. Turns out that as the income tax applied to more of the middle class, the government had to issue more refunds. "Pushing the deadline back gives the government more time to hold on to the money," says Ed McCaffery, a University of Southern California law professor and tax guru. Still, the IRS's rigidity works in your favor: By law, it must mail your refund within 45 days or pay you interest. ― Jessica Sung (Fortune Magazine)
NATIONAL CHEESEBALL DAY
1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.
1521 – The trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.
1861 – The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, becoming the 8th state to join the Confederate States of America. -- From http://edu.lva.virginia.gov/
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
1937 – Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
1912 – Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
1937 – Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress during WWII.
1946 – Syria obtains its independence from the French occupation.
1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
1961 – The Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1964 – American Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1964 – American Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1964 – The Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. He has been denied parole 15 times, the last on February 10, 2016.
1970 – The Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1975 – The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge (Khmers rouges) captures the capital Phnom Penh and the Cambodian government forces surrender. In 2014, two Khmer Rouge leaders, Nuon Chea and Kheiu Samphan, were jailed by a UN-backed court for life, which found them guilty of crimes against humanity and responsible for the deaths of up to 2 million Cambodians (Khmer), nearly a quarter of the country's then population, during the "Killing Fields" era between 1975-1979.
1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau (Embassy) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day siege of the Libyan building.
1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
2006 – A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. Video. BTW they have great kolaches in West.
2014 – NASA's Kepler spacecraft confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
BORN TODAY
1741 – Samuel Chase, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1811)
1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented Baseball (d. 1892)
1837 – James Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913)
1906 – Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente (d. 1984)
1928 – Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
1948 – Jan Hammer, Czech pianist, composer, and producer
1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
2006 – A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.
2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. Video. BTW they have great kolaches in West.
2014 – NASA's Kepler spacecraft confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
BORN TODAY
1741 – Samuel Chase, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1811)
1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented Baseball (d. 1892)
1837 – James Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913)
1906 – Sidney Garfield, American physician, co-founded Kaiser Permanente (d. 1984)
1928 – Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
1948 – Jan Hammer, Czech pianist, composer, and producer
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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