Today's Horoscope for Cancer
April 17, 2026
There really is only one effective and at the same time spiritual way to work, and that is to stop watching the clock and throw yourself into the tasks at hand. This is much more easily achieved when the object of your work is to your liking and pleasurable, which does seem to take you out of space and time. The challenge today is to implement this type of state of mind into doing jobs that are not your favorites as well as those that are.
Power Numbers: 40, 43, 33, 12, 34, 45
Born Today: Jennifer Garner, Henry Vaughan, John Pierpont Morgan, Nikita Khrushchev, Thornton Wilder, Isak Dinesen, Daffy Duck
Quick Quote: "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
-- Albert Camus
Random Fact: Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight can increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
Today in History:
1969: Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1974: Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt
1945: 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1912: 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
1927: Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1869: 1st pro baseball games-Cincinnati Reds 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15
1808: Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships
1989: 93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06
2009: The 5th Summit of the Americas takes place in Port of Spain, Trinidad, thirty-four heads of government attend
1986: Netherlands and Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
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