Five Things You Need to Know Today: April 13

Five Things You Need to Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

1.  Thomas Jefferson was born on this day in 1743. He was the third President of the United States, the main writer of the Declaration of Independence, a governor, a minister to France, the first U.S. Secretary of State, and keeper of an enormous collection of books now held at the Library of Congress.

2. Join the Friends of the tonight from 6:30pm to 8pm in the library Community Room to learn about new books and book club recommendations. Refreshments.

3. The Junior Prom is tonight, but not in a decorated gymnasium or lunchroom or town hall auditorium! Am I showing my age? Students will dance the night away at the Lake View Pavilion in Foxborough. Yet, they must arrive between 7pm and 7:30 at the Lake View Pavillion. Be sure to upload pictures of your prom to Canton.Patch.com or email them to margaret.carroll-bergman.com .

4. Are you a Canton High School Junior and boycotting the prom? Let us know what you are doing tonight, too. Send us pictures of you not at the prom to Canton.Patch.com or email margaret.carroll-bergman@patch.com .

5. Mostly sunny today, with a high near 62 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.