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Thursday, April 9, 2026

TV (traditional end of Sept. - May regular season) -- to mark season finales week of mid-May 2026

 NBC is certain that by

May 16 they will have aired

the final "SNL" (Saturday Night

Live) episode : Host Will Ferrell

comedian, past cast member /

Musical guest Paul McCartney,

original Beatle singer-songwriter.

In EASTERN time zone the weekly

show airs from 11:30 - 1 a.m. between

Saturday night and the first hour

of Sunday overnight.

Artemis II ten-day mission ends Friday evening

SPLASH DOWN

off San Diego, CA will be

expected

(fingers crossed)

April 10, 2026

5:26 p.m. PACIFIC Time Zone

NBC already pre-schedules 30-minute Splashdown near San Diego CA

 5 p.m. until 5:30

Pacific Time Zone, west coast

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NBC schedulers already have

slotted a 30-minute ARTEMIS II

special for

Friday April 10, 2026

April 14 -- birthday of Helen Keller's teacher who led her out of Darkness - silence

 Annie Sullivan

teacher - who overcome

first her own partial blindness

"Miracle Worker" for leading

the young Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

out of her visual / auditory 

debilitation at age 19 months,

following severe illness;

Sullivan was born April 14, 1866

near Springfield, Massachusetts

and died Oct. 20, 1936 Forest Hills,

NY

Luke Combs -- an outdoor concert at S. Bend, IN

 Third Saturday -- 

Rockne Stadium --

seats 80,000

April 18, 2026

outside venue

N.D. Football stadium

5:20 p.m.

[ early April ticket sold at

$86 cheap seats -- floor

premium ones $700+ ]

Utah Measles outbreak approaches 600 cases

 NPR dot-org

tells how the outbreak is

moved from SW corner of

the state to the cities of

Provo and Salt Lake City now.

2026-04-08/measles-outbreak-spreads-

in-utah-hitting-people-without-the-vaccine

23 years ago, on this date in Military HISTORY (April 9, 2003)

 Baghdad (capital of

Saddam Hussein's IRAQ)

fell to invading American 

troops after six days of fighting

at onset of Iraq War. . .

AP News

"On TODAY in History"

April 9

2003