Today is the 104th day of 2026 and the 26th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot and fatally wounded President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died the next day. In 1986, the United States launched airstrikes against Libya in retaliation for an April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen. In 2003, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announced the successful completion of the Human Genome Project. In 2014, the Boko Haram terrorist organization kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Anne Sullivan Macy (1866-1936), educator; John Gielgud (1904-2000), actor; Rod Steiger (19252002), actor; Loretta Lynn (1932-2022), singer-songwriter; Julie Christie (1940), actress; Pete Rose (19412024), baseball player/ manager; Peter Capaldi (1958- ), actor; Greg Maddux (1966- ), baseball player; Adrien Brody (1973- ), actor; Anderson Silva (1975- ), mixed martial artist; Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977- ), actress; Rob McElhenney (1977- ), actor; Baker Mayfield (1995- ), football player; Abigail Breslin (1996- ), actress. TODAY’S FACT: Research indicates that genetic heredity plays a major role in only about 5% to 10% of all cancers. The rest are caused by aging and other environmental factors. TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2002, Tiger Woods won his second consecutive Masters Tournament title and third overall. TODAY’S QUOTE: “The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.” -- Anne Sullivan Macy T O D A Y ’ S NUMBER: 2.25 -- weight (in pounds) of the heaviest hailstone ever recorded, which fell in the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh on this day in 1986, in a hailstorm that killed 92. TODAY’S MOON: Between last quarter moon (April 9) and new moon (April 17).