5 Things: Open Mic Night at A-B

1. FORECAST:

Thursday: Sunshine yet again. Upper 60s to near 70. The usual exceptions apply... cooler upper 50s to low 60s along the coast/Capes/Islands.

Friday: Cooler with a mix of sun & clouds. Highs from 56-64...coolest along the coast with a healthy east wind 7-14mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the low/mid 60s at the coast, near 70 inland.

2. OPEN MIC NIGHT: This year’s event will be from 7 to 9 pm in the small cafe of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Students are invited to come sit in candlelight and listen to musical performances, poetry readings, and recitations.  The night is free and will have refreshments available, so stop by to join in or watch at your leisure. 

3. GIRLS' SOFTBALL NIGHT: Celebrate girls' softball for the towns of Lincoln and Sudbury at Featherland Park. The celebration begins with the LSRHS JV game against Waltham at 4 p.m., followed by food and some pre-game fun at 5:30 p.m. The varsity game against Waltham begins at 7 p.m.

4. ODD HOLIDAYS HELD TODAY: Today is Baby Day. Parents, especially new parents, can celebrate this day by spending extra time with your infant. After all, they will be babies for an all too short time. Also, learn more about how to care for them.

5. THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

• 1885 — Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.
• 1939 — Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.
• 1945 — The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
• 1955 — Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• 1969 — The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.
• 1994 — Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.
• 2011 — U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• 2012 — A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.