NEA DATEBOOK

Today is the 151st day of 2023 and the 73rd day of spring.

TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1790, President George Washington signed the first U.S. copyright law.

In 1889, the failure of the South Fork Dam on Pennsylvania’s Lake Conemaugh caused a huge flood that engulfed Johnstown, claiming 2,209 lives.

In 1970, an undersea earthquake off the coast of the Ancash region of Peru caused a massive avalanche that resulted in approximately 70,000 fatalities.

In 2005, an article in Vanity Fair magazine revealed that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was the anonymous Watergate scandal whistleblower known as “Deep Throat.”

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet/journalist; Pope Pius XI (18571939), Roman Catholic leader; Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), religious leader/author; Clint Eastwood (1930- ), actor/director; Johnny Paycheck (1938-2003), singer-songwriter; Joe

Namath (1943- ), football player; John Bonham (1948-1980), drummer; Tom Berenger (1949- ), actor; Lea Thompson (1961- ), actress; Darryl “DMC” McDaniels (1964- ), rapper/producer; Brooke Shields (1965- ), actress; Archie Panjabi (1972- ), actress; Colin Farrell (1976- ), actor.

TODAY’S FACT: Copyright laws established in 1998 state that copyright protections last for the lifetime of the author plus an additional 70 years.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1937, New York Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell’s 24-game winning streak came to an end with a 10-3 loss to the Brooklyn Robins.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.” — Walt Whitman

TODAY’S NUMBER: 2.6 — diameter (in miles) of the widest tornado in recorded history, an EF5 tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma, on this day in 2013.