April 17th

April 17 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 248 days remaining until the end of time.

1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II, since it is impossible to read in olde English.

1937 Cartoon characters Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd debut

1945 Mussolini flees from Salo to Milan although he learned a lot from Salo

1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro. And how does this turn out?

1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove". With further character exploration it could’ve been "Done Some Love"

1897 Thornton Wilder, gay US playwright/novelist 

1918 William Holden, US actor 

1923 Lindsay Anderson, gay India-born British director 

1937 Daffy Duck, US comedian/actor/Heee's disth-pickable 

1959 Sean Bean, English actor 

1968 Alfredo Villa, Spanish actor 

1970 Márcio Garcia, Brazilian actor 

1975 Gabriel Soto, Mexican singer/actor/model 

1978 Ido Mosseri, Israeli actor 

1983 Andrea Marcato, Italian rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1985 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player 

1985 Evandro Soldati, Brazilian supermodel 

1790 Benjamin Franklin, U.S. mechanic, statesman and author (Poor Richards Almanac), goes and flies a kite

1987 Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers)/Inventor of the "high five", meets the Producer

2011 Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), sits out the next dance.