Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills was born April 18, 1946 and is an English actress. I remember her as a child actress who populated several movies I liked and a few for which I didn't particularly care.

I was likely too unsophisticated to really get the plot elements and such.

She's was pretty much a constant from that early childhood start of broadcast and projected entertainment and while something about her pageboy haircut repelled me a little I always thought she was an attractive girl child when I saw her.

I really liked her portrayal of Pollyanna in 1960, and my five year old mind took to the optimism and her pretty young face as well. The period costumes added to the allure of this film for me personally. I've always remembered this role fondly.

The Parent Trap and the sequel were a bit above my comprehension at that time in my life. The subtle nuances of the plot were a bit lost on me and by the time I had grown into the understanding the interest in general had waned.

This was pretty much the same for The Moon-Spinners. I just didn't comprehend romance nor intrigue at a sufficient level to enjoy what was happening.

I've always been more of a blood and guts kindo guy anyway.

Suffice it to say I knew who Hayley Mills was and had a base appreciation for her art and was typically quite warm for her form as well at that time I became sufficiently old.

Anyway, today is her seventy fifth birthday. Happy birthday to you !
 

On this day in 1969 Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Robert F Kennedy.

At about 12:15 am PDT June 5, 1968 he fired a .22 Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver at the senator and surrounding crowd in the Ambassador Hotel at Los Angeles. Mr Kennedy had just finished addressing supporters in the main ballroom of the hotel.

Sirhan Sirhan subsequently struggled with and was subdued by members of the crowd which included George Plimpton, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Rosey Grier, and Rafer Johnson.

Mr Kennedy sustained gunshot wounds in the head and twice in the back. A fourth bullet passed through his jacket.

He succumbed to his injuries about 26 hours later at Good Samaritan Hospital. Five others attending the event were also shot, but recovered from their injuries.

I was in the eighth grade at Horace O'Bryant Jr High School at Key West, Florida when all of this transpired. I recall how touchy my math teacher, Mrs Traywick was at the mention or misunderstanding of any statements made regarding the incident.

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan aka Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān was born March 19, 1944. He is a Palestinian Christian militant born in Jerusalem to an Arab Christian family and was convicted of murder. He is presently serving a life sentence at the Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
 

Murad Jacob Kevorkian aka "Jack Kevorkian" was born May 26, 1928 and passed on June 3, 2011 at the age of 83. He was an American pathologist and proponent of euthanasia who publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician assisted suicide.

This philosophy resulted in the media ascribing "Dr Death" as a reference to him and his work and there were individuals who both supported this cause and others who were adamantly against it.

In 1998, Kevorkian was arrested and tried for his direct role in a case of voluntary euthanasia on a man named Thomas Youk who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS.

For this he was convicted of second degree murder for which he served 8 years of a 10 to 25 year prison sentence.

He was released on parole on June 1, 2007 under the conditions that he would not offer advice, participate, nor be present in the act of any type of suicide involving euthanasia to any other person. He was furthermore restricted from promoting or discussing the procedure involve with the topic of assisted suicide.

His assisted suicide involvement with one Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old woman diagnosed in 1989 with Alzheimer's disease, took place on this day in 1990.

Charges of murder were dropped on December 13, 1990 due to the nonexistence of statutes regarding assisted suicide in Michigan.

In 1991, however, the State of Michigan revoked Kevorkian's medical license and made it clear that, given his actions, he was no longer permitted to practice medicine or to work with patients.

His legacy is a more open handling of assisted suicide with legality in some US states and there is a European contingent with the same goals which are a painless and humane ending for those who are suffering terminal illness.
 

It is April 15th, the generally accepted tax deadline for filing in the United States and possessions.

Having been born on April 14 I always viewed myself as 'daddy's little tax deduction' though I'm quite sure that the expenses I caused him to incur far outweighed the deduction he may have enjoyed many times over.

This year I filed back in February and after a little extra hubub in the form of late arriving documents. I have already received my State refund and expect my Federal refund sometime next week.

I have always been one to attempt taking care of this business as early as possible in an effort to promote efficiency — and not to incur the wrath of the IRS ...

Be all of this as it may I'm sure they have bigger fish to fry than me in their process but as such I'd just as soon not stir up anything anyway.

I recall many years being more 'taxing' for me personally than those of late. This is likely due to the change we have made in the completion of tax forms.

The past years I have filed my tax returns along with those of my mothers using her tax software which she renews annually.

It affords us the opportunity to work through the returns at our own pace and we are advised when we're missing something — as happened this year.

Most years we're done in a few hours.

This year it ran quite over, and we wanted to blame a vendor for the mess. However, they were innocent in the matter as the issue stemed from a late mail delivery ... MONTHS late.

So we will try not to be all teeth gritting, gnashing, and prematurely accusatory in the future and we are certainly glad to be through another year of this yearly duty to the nation.