President Woodrow Wilson addresses congress to declare
war on Germany.

The United States plunged ferociously into World War I following
a vote in the House of Representatives on this day in history,
April 6, 1917.

President Woodrow Wilson requested a declaration of war against Germany before a joint session of Congress on April 2, as the
United States faced both the threat of unrestricted submarine
warfare from Germany and the potential of its alliance with
Mexico to seize vast swaths of the American West.

The Senate voted in favor of the war declaration two days later. 

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989)

Bette Davis, a Hollywood legend whose "raw, unbridled intensity
kept her at the top of her profession for 50 years," as Encyclopedia Britannica put it, was born on this day in history, April 5, 1908.

A recipient of two Academy Awards, she was the first thespian
to accrue ten nominations.

    
1931  (Bette Davis film debut)

  
      

1989  (Final film role)
      
      
      
     

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was
fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-
story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

Crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA Astronauts
Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian
Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly to the
moon by the end of next year, including one woman and three
men.

The three Americans and one Canadian were introduced during
a ceremony in Houston, home to the nation’s astronauts as well
as Mission Control.

"This is humanity’s crew," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

The four astronauts will be the first to fly NASA’s Orion capsule, launching atop a Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy
Space Center no earlier than late 2024. They will not land or even
go into lunar orbit, but rather fly around the moon and head
straight back to Earth, a prelude to a lunar landing by two others
a year later.

Provided this next 10-day moonshot goes well, NASA aims to
land two astronauts on the moon by 2025 or so.

NASA picked from 41 active astronauts for its first Artemis crew
and Canada had four candidates. (MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer)

SANDY KOZEL

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)