World Intellectual Property Day

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." Abraham Lincoln


TODAY IN HISTORY:

Picasso's "Guernica"

John Wilkes Booth

• 1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
• 1937 Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1986 A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Lindsay Lohan

What happens when pets get in the way of an airplane take off? Watch the ABC News report. What are teenagers doing with hand soap? Should Lindsay Lohan be hired to act as Elizabeth Taylor? Watch the CNN debate. What shapes language? Read the NPR article. What's the latest update on North Korea? Watch the Reuters report. Why do German schoolchildren will have to read Hitler's Mine Kampf? Read the Time article. Is it OK to record and/or tape abusive teachers? Watch the Fox News interview via Yahoo.