April 13th - What's Going On Today?
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Wednesday April 13th is National Scrabble Day. Scrabble, according to Wikipedia is a game "in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a gameboard which is divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words which, in crossword fashion, flow left to right in rows or downwards in columns. The words must be defined in a standard dictionary." How many of you played scrabble growing up? Although invented during the depression, the final name of the Game was chosen in 1948.
Today is also known as National Peach Cobbler Day. That may be a perfect combination, Peach Cobbler with a game of Scrabble. Here is an Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler Recipe in case you have the urge to make it today.
April 13th is also the day the third President of The United States, Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743. In addition to being the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer and a scientist.
