President John Adams approved legislation to appropriate
$5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for
the use of Congress,” thus establishing the Library of
Congress. The first books, ordered from London, arrived
in 1801 and were stored in the U.S. Capitol, the library’s
first home. The first library catalog, dated April 1802, listed
964 volumes and nine maps. Twelve years later, the British
army invaded the city of Washington and burned the Capitol,
including the then 3,000-volume Library of Congress.

Former president Thomas Jefferson, who advocated the
expansion of the library during his two terms in office,
responded to the loss by selling his personal library, the
largest and finest in the country, to Congress. 

The library. The purchase of Jefferson’s 6,487 volumes was
approved in the next year, and a professional librarian,
George Watterston, was hired to replace the House clerks
in the administration of the library. In 1851, a second major
fire at the library destroyed about two-thirds of its 55,000
volumes, including two-thirds of the Thomas Jefferson
library. Congress responded quickly and generously to
the disaster, and within a few years a majority of the lost
books were replaced.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826)

George Watterston
(October 23, 1783 – February 4, 1854)

Brylcreem is a British brand of hair styling products for men
created in 1928. It is marketed in the United States by Combe Incorporated, based in White Plains, New York.

It was first advertised on television with the jingle "Brylcreem,
A Little Dab’ll Do Ya!

Brylcreem It is notable for the high shine it provides, which
spawned the name of the product, stemming from "brilliantine"
and "cream".

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Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocked out the first home run
of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron
becomes baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe
Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Aaron  began his professional
baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League and joined the
Milwaukee Braves of the major leagues in 1954, eight years
after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron,
nicknamed "Hammer", was the last Negro League player
to compete in the majors.

On April 22, 1876, the Boston Red Caps beat the Philadelphia
Athletics, 6-5, in the first official National League baseball game. 

The game, which lasted a little more than two hours, was played
in "favorable" weather before 3,000 fans. "Great interest was
manifested in the result," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported,
"as it really was the first game of importance played this season."

"The Athletics should have won the game," the newspaper added,
"but their fielding was poor." Betting on the game was "about
even.”

(FOXNEWS) – Around 300 pieces of silver from two Viking treasures,
with approximately 50 whole coins, were found last fall in a Danish
field at Bramslev.

The coins were located around fives miles away from the Viking
castle Fyrkat, and date back to more than a thousand years ago.

The treasures were found less than 164 feet apart, containing
the coins and cut-up silver jewelry. 

North Jutland Museums said in a statement that the treasures
probably served as a means of payment by weight.

North Jutland Art Museum in Denmark.