Born on this day – Jessie Redmon Fauset:

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Writer

Teacher

April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961

Credits:

Books:

Comedy, American Style (1933); Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1928); The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931); There Is Confusion (1924).

Poems:

'Courage!' He Said (1929); Dead Fires (date?); La Vie C'est La Vie (1922); Rondeau (1912).

Short stories:

Double Trouble (1923); Emmy (1912 / 1913); My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein (1914).

Essays:

Dark Algiers the White (1925–26); Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress (1921); The Gift of Laughter (1925); What Europe Thought of the Pan-African Congress (1921).

Born on this day – Mary Wollstonecraft:

Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer

Philosopher

April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797

Credits:

Books and articles:

A Different Face: the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A most extraordinary pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft; Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology; Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Impeccable Governess, Rational Dames, and Moral Mothers: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Female Tradition in Georgian Children's Books; Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul; Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility; Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction; Mary Wollstonecraft on education; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Women Writers of Her Day; Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies; Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft; Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman; On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus; On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Romantic Correspondence: Women, politics and the fiction of letters; Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism; Sensibility and the 'Walk of Reason': Mary Wollstonecraft's Literary Reviews as Cultural Critique; The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft; The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Godwins and the Shelleys: The biography of a family; The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft's daughters: womanhood in England and France, 1780–1920; Wollstonecraft's Letters Written ... in Sweden: Towards Romantic Autobiography; Women's Friendship in Literature.

Movies and television:

If Love Should Die (date?); Mary Wollstonecraft of Sector Seventeen (2008).

Mary Wortley Montagu, on reading:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading,

nor any pleasure so lasting.

– Mary Wortley Montagu.

On this day in music history:

American Recordings by Johnny Cash (1994)

Be Here by Rachel Platten (2011)

Storyteller by Secret Garden (2019)

Tattoo Me by Lee Aaron (2024)

American Recordings

Album by Johnny Cash,

released April 26, 1994.

Track list: Delia's Gone; Let the Train Blow the Whistle; The Beast in Me; Drive On; Why Me Lord; Thirteen; Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer); Bird on a Wire; Tennessee Stud; Down There by the Train; Redemption; Like a Soldier; The Man Who Couldn't Cry.

Be Here

Album by Rachel Platten,

released April 26, 2011.

Track list: Nothing Ever Happens; Overwhelmed; Don't Care What Time It Is; 53 Steps; Little Light; 1000 Ships; Take These Things Away; You Don't Have To Go; All I Seem To Do; Remark.

Storyteller

Album by Secret Garden,

released April 26, 2019.

Track list: The Pilot; Beyond The Blue; Beautiful [feat. Brian Kennedy]; Flow; Song To A Child; Nostalgia; Open Doors; Sunshine [feat. Cathrine Iversen]; One More Chance; Fantasia; The Voyage; Strength [feat. Espen Grjotheim]; End Of A Journey.

Tattoo Me

Album by Lee Aaron,

released April 26, 2024.

Track list: Tattoo; Are You Gonna Be My Girl; Even It Up; What Is and What Should Never Be; Is It My Body; Go Your Own Way; The Pusher; Malibu; Someone Saved My Life Tonight; Connection; Teenage Kicks.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek: Voyager (1999 & 2000)

Star Trek: The Official Guide to Our Universe / book (2016)

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 5. Episode 20.

Episode entitled: Juggernaut.

Released April 26, 1999.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan, Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Ron Canada, Lee Arenberg, Scott Klace, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Alexander Enberg, Tarik Ergin, Keith Rayve, Christina Rydell, Pablo Soriano.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 6. Episode 22.

Episode entitled: Muse.

Released April 26, 2000.

Directed by Michael/Mike Vejar.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Joe Menosky, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by David Bell.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Joseph Will, Kellie Waymire, Tony Amendola, Jack Axelrod, Michael Houston King, Kathleen Garrett, Stoney Westmoreland, John Schuck, Majel Barrett, John Austin, Patrick Barnitt, Alexander Fors, Carissa Hernandez, Dieter Horneman, Nichole McAuley, Robin Morselli, Stephen Pisani.

Star Trek: The Official Guide to Our Universe

The True Science Behind the Starship Voyages

By Andrew Fazekas.

Foreword by William Shatner.

Published by National Geographic.

Illustrated edition.

Published 2016.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1426216521

ISBN-13: 978-1426216527

Description:

This book reveals the science behind Star Trek’s beloved fictions about the universe, inviting readers to gaze up at the night sky and observe where the Starfleet has gone. Many of the galactic destinations featured in Star Trek over the years – multiple star systems, alien worlds, supernova explosions, emission nebulae, voracious black holes – are scientifically valid, so much so that one can step out and view them in the night sky. In this book astronomy educator Andrew Fazekas, “The Night Sky Guy,” takes you on that journey, starting with specific Star Trek voyages, explaining the science behind them, and guiding you in observing and learning more about the real-universe corollaries of planets and places in the Star Trek universe.

With a foreword from William Shatner and stunningly illustrated with hundreds of full-color images – some artists’ interpretations and some real images generated by the most recent NASA missions – plus stills of favorite Star Trek scenes and characters, Star Trek The Official Guide to Our Universe uses Star Trek to teach astronomy, taking every reader on a voyage of discovery. From Altair to Vega, from red giants to white dwarfs, from our solar system to exoplanets we are only beginning to imagine, the book visits dozens of celestial objects, spotlighting some 20 in careful scientific detail and offering easy-to-follow star-gazing instructions to find them in the night sky.

No warp-driven starship, not even a telescope is required to go on these voyages: Most destinations are bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. For Star Trek fans and budding stargazers who are ready to launch their own space mission, this inventive book blends science and fiction, making learning fun and making Star Trek’s 50th all the more worthy of celebration.

On this day in movie history - Mulholland Falls (1996):

Mulholland Falls

directed by Lee Tamahori,

written by Pete Dexter,

based on a story by Pete Dexter and Floyd Mutrux,

was released in the United States on April 26, 1996.
Music by Dave Grusin.

Cast:

Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Daniel Baldwin, Andrew McCarthy, John Malkovich, Kyle Chandler, Ed Lauter, Larry Garrison, Chelsea Harrington, Johnna Johnson, Rick Johnson, Britt Burr, Melinda Clarke, Ernie Lively, Richard Sylbert, Michael Krawic, Titus Welliver, Robert Peters, William M. Thigpen, Drew Pillsbury, Brad Hunt, Aaron Neville, Buddy Joe Hooker, Eddie Caicedo, Price Carson, Azalea Davila, Suzanne Solari, Alisa Christensen, Bruce Dern, Louise Fletcher, Khris Kaneff, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Rob Lowe, Johnny Martin, William Petersen, Lisa Rhyne, Randall Rutledge, Christopher Warner.

Born on this day – Warren Clarke:

Warren Clarke

Actor

April 26, 1947 – November 12, 2014

Credits:

A Clockwork Orange (1971); A Respectable Trade (1998); All Creatures Great and Small (1990); All Good Things (1991); All in the Game (1993); Angels (1992); Antony and Cleopatra (1972); Armchair Theatre (1973); Arthur's Dyke (2001); Bad Blood (2013); BBC Play of the Month (1977); BBC2 Playhouse (1980); Bergerac (1981–1985); Big Deal (1984); Blackadder the Third (1987); Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988); Bleak House (2005); Blow Dry (2001); Boon (1986–1991); Call the Midwife (2013); Callan (1970); Chelmsford 123 (1990); Christmas at the Riviera (2007); Chuggington (2008–2013); Clint Eastwood: Director (1982); Comic Relief (1988); Conjugal Rites (1993); Coronation Street (1965–1968); Crossroads (1966–1968); Crown Court (1973–1982); Crusoe (1988); Dalziel and Pascoe (1996–2007); De flyvende djævle (1985); Down to Earth (2000–2003); Empire of the Censors (1995); Enigma (1982); Firefox (1982); From a Far Country (1981); Giving Tongue (1996); GMTV (2004); Gone to Seed (1992); Gone to the Dogs (1991); Greenfingers (2000); Greenhill Pals (1975); Gulag (1985); Hammer House of Horror (1980); Hands of a Murderer (1990); Hawk the Slayer (1980); Heartland (1979); History of The World (2011–2012); Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985); How's Your Father? (1975); I.D. (1995); Il était une fois... (2011); In the Red (1998); In with the Flynns (2011–2012); Inheritance (1967); Inside Edge (1992); Inspector George Gently (2010); Inspector Lewis (2010); Ishtar (1987); It Shouldn't Happen to a TV Actor (2003); ITV Play of the Week (1966); ITV Playhouse (1967); ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1973); Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (1974); Joseph (1995); Just William (2010); Lassiter (1984); Live from Pebble Mill (1983); Loose Women (2011); Love Story (1973); Lovejoy (1991); Mandela (1987); Marple (2009); Masada (1981); Midsomer Murders (2011); Minder (1982); Mister Misfit (1967); Moving Story (1994–1995); NET Playhouse (1968); Nice Work (1989); O Lucky Malcolm! (2006); O Lucky Man! (1973); On the Rocks (1969); Our Mutual Friend (1976); Panorama (1982); Pardon the Expression (1965–1966); Parkin's Patch (1969); Perpetual Motion (1992); Play for Today (1972–1983); Poldark (2015); Real Life (1984); Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009); Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009); Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009); Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983); Richard & Judy (2005); S.O.S. Titanic (1979); Save Our Bacon (2010); Screen Two (1986–1994); Screenplay (1979); Shelley (1980–1982); Six Days of Justice (1973); Six Different Kinds of Light John Alcott (2015); Sleepers (1991); Softly Softly: Task Force (1973); Star Games (1979); Stay Lucky (1990); Tales of the Unexpected (1981); The Avengers (1968); The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985); The Breaking of Bumbo (1970); The Case of the Frightened Lady (1983); The Cold Room (1984); The Comic Strip Presents (1988); The Culture Show (2007); The Debt (2003); The Deputy (2004); The Directors (2018); The Expert (1976); The Frighteners (1972); The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979); The Home Front (1983); The House of Windsor (1994); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1976); The Invisibles (2008); The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1981); The Jewel in the Crown (1984); The Kumars at No. 42 (2001); The Locksmith (1997); The Man Who Married Himself (2010); The Manageress (1989–1990); The Mystery of Men (1999); The One Show (2008–2011); The Onedin Line (1978); The Return of the Antelope (1986); The Secret Agent (1992); The Sunday Drama (1977); The Sweeney (1975); The Tempest (1980); The Virgin Soldiers (1969); The Way of the World (1975); The Wednesday Play (1969); This Is Your Life (1992–1996); This Morning (1988); Tickets for the Titanic (1988); Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979); Top Secret! (1984); Total Cops (2003); Trollied (2012); Turning Like Clockwork (2011); Unnatural Causes (1986); Victims (1979); Way to Go (2013); Wild at Heart (2011); Wish Me Luck (1988); Wogan (1991); Wolcott (1981); Worlds Beyond (1988); Z Cars (1978).