What’s the word for a little bit of everything?

• On April 14, 1818, Noah Webster, a Yale-educated lawyer with an avid interest in language and education, publishes his American Dictionary of the English Language. The dictionary, which took him more than two decades to complete, introduced more than 10,000 “Americanisms.”

• On April 11, 1913, Ettore Bugatti first proposes designing the super car that would eventually emerge as the Bugatti Type 41 Royale. Called the “car of kings,” Bugattis were huge, hand-crafted luxury cars that were affordable only for Europe’s elite.

• On April 12, 1922, director Fatty Arbuckle is found not guilty in his third trial for the death of Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle had been accused of causing Rappe’s death by crushing her during an alleged sexual assault at a raucous San Francisco party. His earlier trials ended in hung juries.

• On April 16, 1947, multimillionaire and financier Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. The phrase stuck, and for more than 40 years it was a mainstay in the language of American diplomacy.

• On April 10, 1953, the “House of Wax,” starring Vincent Price, opens at New York’s Paramount Theater. The first color three-dimensional picture, the 3-D movie had to be viewed through special glasses.

• On April 15, 1967, massive parades to protest Vietnam policy are held in New York. Police estimated that 100,000 to 125,000 people listened to speeches by Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock. Prior to the march, nearly 200 draft cards were burned by young men in Central Park.

• On April 13, 1990, the Soviet government officially accepts blame for the Katyn Massacre of World War II, when nearly 5,000 Polish military officers were murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest. The admission was part of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s promise to be more candid concerning Soviet history.