Today is the 105th day of 2026 and the 27th day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1892, General Electric Company was founded in Schenectady, New York. In 1912, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.

In 1923, insulin became available to the general public for the treatment of diabetes. In 2013, two bombs exploded near the finish line at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264. In 2019, the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France was damaged by a large fire. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), artist/scientist; Henry James (1843-1916), author; A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), activist; Bessie Smith (1894-1937), blues singer; Roy Clark (1933-2018), singer/actor; Elizabeth Montgomery (1933-1995), actress; Michael Kamen (19482003), composer; Evelyn Ashford (1957- ), runner; Emma Thompson (1959- ), actress; Arturo Gatti (19722009), boxer; Chris Stapleton (1978- ), singer-songwriter; Seth Rogen (1982- ),

In 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming Major League Baseball’s first African American player. TODAY’S QUOTE: “To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived -- to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that -- this doubtless is the right way to live.” -- Henry James TODAY’S NUMBER: $10 -- amount offered in 1824 by tailor James Selby to anyone who could return his escaped indentured servant boys, William and Andrew Johnson. The boys were never captured. Andrew went on to have a successful career in politics and was sworn in as the 17th president on this day in 1865, after the death of Abraham Lincoln. TODAY’S MOON: Between last quarter moon (April 9) and new moon (April 17).