Horoscopes

Aries (March 21-April 19): Changes at work are coming: This could be the luckiest turn of events that’s happened in months. To prepare yourself, bone up on your skills and make sure your client base is ample. Taurus (April 20-May 20): Exaggerate, minimize, glorify or vilify — you’ll play with different ways to understand what happened to you. There’s more than one way that will ring true, fit and make sense, so don’t be afraid to try different directions. Gemini (May 21-June 21): What’s making you anxious? What do you not want to face? It’s time to deal with it. If it were the only thing you did in this day, you would be most supremely satisfied at day’s end. Cancer (June 22-July 22): Some of the stressors can’t be eliminated yet, but you can combat fatigue by doing something every day that brings you joy. It’s funny that you still see this as a selfish move when it’s the move that will help you have more to give. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Certainly, there are frustrating aspects to living where you do, but when you experience the kindness of people in your community, it makes you happy to be a part of it. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As you teach, you learn. While you’re showing someone how to accomplish a task you will understand it in a different way, and you’ll see how it can be done better, too. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Thinking too much will only complicate matters unnecessarily. This is one of those times when your energy is best spent doing, creating, acting and reacting. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): With your combination of expertise, grit and passion, you have all the internal resources necessary to make a creative project fly. As for the external resources — well, that’s what you’ll work on getting today. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s a difference between projecting yourself into a bright future and just wishing to be somewhere else, thereby wasting the moment you’re in. It’s a day to give your full attention to the task at hand. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To an outsider, this is a very exciting thing you’re doing today. Even better is how you’re doing it — with the smooth style of one who’s done it a million times, which you practically have. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Often being the bigger person is about being the smaller person. Extreme greatness, in fact, is often achieved best by figuring out how to set others up to shine and then getting out of the way, so as not to overshadow. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): To endure and prevail is to know great fortune. Therefore, any little bit of weirdness or challenge or discomfort that comes your way could be your conduit to stellar luck.

The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.

Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in Detroit, “I shall go to Korea” as he promised to end the conflict. (He made the visit over a month later.)