Bobby Bare

April 7, 1935 – Bobby Bare is born in Portsmouth. His Detroit City would win a Grammy Award as Song of the Year in 1963, and in the next four decades he would make great country music with Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Reed and Mel Tillis.
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Lowell Jackson Thomas

April 6, 1892 – Lowell Jackson Thomas, adventurer, writer, journalist, broadcaster and known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia (T.E. Lawrence) a household name, is born in Woodington in Darke County. He wrote 56 books in his time and earned $1.5 million from a stage show based on the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia.
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Judith Arlene Resnik

April 5, 1949 - Judith Arlene Resnik is born in Akron. A graduate of Firestone High School, she became an engineer and NASA astronaut. She died during lift-off of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986
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DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE April 4, 1841 – President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia. He talked too long at his own inauguration. His original mill/distillery is the waterway on the 15th hole at Aston Oaks Golf Course on the west side of Cincinnati. The office/launch pad for his presidency? Hamilton County Clerk of Courts. April 4, 2009 - Cleveland native Bobby Womack inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Wayne Gleason

April 3, 1977 – Wayne Gleason may have been fishing for giant muskie at Leesville Lake south of Canton but instead he lands a 9.25 pound, 27 ½ inch sucker. The Wellsville resident goes into the record books for catching the largest sucker in Ohio history.
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Tenor Herbert Mills

April 2, 1912 – Tenor Herbert Mills is born in Piqua. He grows up singing at the Cyrene African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Park Avenue Baptist Church with brothers John Jr., Harry and Donald. The Mills Brothers also hone their routine by performing with a kazoo outside their father’s barber shop. Discovered in Cincinnati by Duke Ellington, they record 2,000 songs, including Get a Job and Paper Doll, and sell 50 million records.
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First paid firefighters

April 1, 1853 – Cincinnati is first city to pay firefighters a regular salary, thereby ending a sometime American firefighter tradition of arson to get wages.
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