Today is the 95th day of 2026 and the 17th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1792, George Washington cast the first presidential veto, striking down a bill that concerned representative apportionment among the states. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 1955, Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Great Britain due to failing health. In 2010, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), philosopher; Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), writer/ educator; Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), actor; Bette Davis (1908-1989), actress; Gregory Peck (1916-2003), actor; Roger Corman (1926-2024), filmmaker; Colin Powell (1937-2021), U.S. Army general/diplomat; Mitch Pileggi (1952- ), actor; Pharrell Williams (1973- ), rapper/producer; Sterling K. Brown (1976- ), actor; Hayley Atwell (1982- ), actress; Lily James (1989), actress. TODAY’S FACT: Easter Island, located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, was given its name by its first recorded European visitor, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who first encountered it on Easter Sunday,on this day in 1722.