Today in 1933 the birthday of Willie Nelson, a country music legend who once put out an album so that he could send royalties to the IRS to pay some overdue taxes.
On any given day McDonald's serves huge numbers of people, either in restaurants or via drive-thru windows. But once, in the 1990s, the company also tried to operate restaurant cars on a long-distance German train line.
Tax Day gives a lot of us the blues - which, as it turns out, actually kind of works. April 15 is the birthday of the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith.
