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April 13th in History

Explosion on Apollo 13! In other news, Pocahontas is captured, Fort Sumter surrenders, and Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters. It's the birthday of Guy Fawkes, Thomas Jefferson, Butch Cassidy, and Samuel Beckett; Robert Moon, who created the ZIP® Code, died. Happy Songkran!

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Quote of the Day

"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impractical. But the consequence of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property. [A] means of lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxes below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."

Thomas Jefferson, polymath, founding father, and President of the United States born April 13, 1743