Denise Crosby

" Yesterday's Enterprise" is the 63rd episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the 15th episode of the third season, first airing in syndication the week of February 19, 1990. In the story, the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) must decide whether to send the time-traveling Enterprise-C back through a temporal rift to its certain destruction, to prevent damaging changes to their own timeline. The plot merged two story ideas, one featuring the crew of the time-traveling ship and the other the return of Denise Crosby (pictured), whose character had been killed in the show's first season. Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell rewrote the merged story to focus on Whoopi Goldberg's character, Guinan. Filming lasted a week. In syndication, "Yesterday's Enterprise" outperformed most of the third season's episodes with a 13.1  Nielsen rating, the third-highest for the series at the time. The episode is cited as a favorite by reviewers, and is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of the series. ( Full article...)

Coat of arms of Andorra

• ... that the upper quarters of the coat of arms of Andorra (pictured) feature the arms of the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix, the "two traditional protectors" of the principality?
• ... that LaVar Ball claimed that he would have beaten Michael Jordan in one-on-one basketball?
• ... that the Australian television film Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye broke all first-day streaming records on Presto?
• ... that George Escol Sellers was the basis for the fictional character Colonel Eschol Sellers in Mark Twain's novel The Gilded Age?
• ... that the Czech fossil ant Odontomachus paleomyagra has mandibles notably similar to those of a related South African species?
• ... that Satish K. Gupta explored the possibilities of using zona pellucida proteins for the development of immunocontraceptive protocols?
• ... that the Rock Island Arsenal Museum is the second oldest museum of the United States Army?
• ... that Rose Cannabich was "a very beautiful and well-behaved girl", according to her piano teacher Mozart, who composed a piano sonata for her?

Tim Berners-Lee

• The United States attacks a Syrian air base in response to a chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun that killed more than 70 people.
• Tim Berners-Lee (pictured) wins the Turing Award for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the protocols and algorithms that allow the Web to scale.
• In college basketball, the South Carolina Gamecocks win the NCAA women's tournament and the North Carolina Tar Heels win the men's tournament.
• A bombing in the Saint Petersburg Metro kills at least 14 people and injures more than 45 others.
• The annual Boat Races are held, with Oxford winning the men's race and Cambridge winning the women's race.

April 8

Times Square

• 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla was assassinated at a roadside near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.
• 876 – Forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the army of the Saffarid amir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing Ya'qub to halt his advance into what is now Iraq.
• 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, was renamed Times Square (pictured) after The New York Times building.
• 1961 – A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf killed 238 people on board.
• 2013 – Two Sunni Muslim Islamic extremist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Al-Nusra Front, merged to become the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS.

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