On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on April 05:
1588 Thomas Hobbes England, philosopher (Leviathan)
1752 Sébastien Erard piano/harp manufacturer
1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1822 James Nagle Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1825 David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones Major General (Confederate Army)
1827 Joseph Lister England, physician (founded aseptic surgery)
1838 Alpheus Hyatt US, invertebrate paleontologist
1839 Robert Smalls Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Representative-SC)
1900 Spencer Tracy Milwaukee WI, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib)
1901 Chester Bowles Massachusetts, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal)
1901 Melvyn Douglas [Hesselberg] Macon GA, actor (Hud, Ghost Story)
1905 Bill Raisch one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
1908 Bette Davis Lowell MA, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
1916 Gregory Peck La Jolla CA, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)
1917 Robert [Albert] Bloch US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho)
1922 Gale Storm Bloomington TX, actress (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show)
1926 Roger Corman Detroit MI, producer/director (Little Shop of Horrors)
1926 Milton O Thompson astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15)
1934 Frank Gorshin Pittsburgh PA, impressionist/actor (Riddler-Batman)
1934 Stanley Turrentine jazz saxophonist (Wonderland)
1937 Colin Powell Bronx NY, General/advisor to President George Bush (Nat Security Affairs)/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93)/Secretary of State (2001-2005)
1941 David LaFlamme New Britain CT, electric violinist (It's a Beautiful Day)
1941 Michael Moriarty Detroit MI, actor (Ben Stone-Law & Order, Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
1941 Eric Burdon England, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1949 Dr Judith Arlene Resnik Akron OH, astronaut (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)
1950 Franklin R Chang-Diaz Costa Rica, PhD/astronaut (STS 61C, 34,46,60,75)
1951 Roosevelt Ferguson Arkansas, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1955 Renate Bruemmer astronaut/cosmonaut
1957 Vince Gill Norman OK, country singer (When I Call Your Name)
1958 Cammie Lusko Los Angeles CA, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1977 Sevilay Ozturk Miss Turkey-Universe (1996)
2173 Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd New Amsterdam, Arcturus
Deaths which occurred on April 05:
0828 Nicephorus patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77
1258 Julian of Cornillon/Liege Flemish visionary/saint, dies
1270 Ramban Nachmanides Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies
1531 Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1649 John Winthrop 1st Governor Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 61
1794 Georges-Jacques Danton French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34
1869 Daniel Bakeman last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War, dies at 109
1918 Paul Vidal de la Blanche French geographer, dies at 73
1928 Jane Ellen Harrison scholar/archaeologist, dies
1964 Douglas MacArthur US General (Pacific theater-WWII), dies at 84
1972 Brian Donlevy actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73
1975 Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist Chinese leader, dies from a heart attack at 87
1976 Howard Hughes reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
1981 Bob "Bear" Hite rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a heart attack at 36
1982 Abe Fortas Supreme court justice, dies at 71
1984 Arthur Travors "Bomber" Harris marshal of British RAF, dies
1991 John Tower (Senator-Republican-TX), dies in a plane crash at 65
1991 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr USN/astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43
1992 Sam Walton Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74
1994 Kurt Cobain (b.1967), singer-musician for the grunge band Nirvana, committes suicide
1997 Allen Ginsberg beat poet, dies at 80
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
05-Apr-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Staff Sergeant Stevon Alexander Booker Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Larry Kenyatta Brown Not reported Hostile - hostile fire
US 1st Sergeant Edward Smith Doha Hostile - hostile fire
05-Apr-2004 8 | US: 8 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Deryk L. Hallal Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Private 1st Class Moises A. Langhorst Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Matthew K. Serio Fallujah [Al Anbar Prov.] Hostile - hostile fire
US Private 1st Class Christopher Ramos Fallujah [Al Anbar Prov.] Hostile - hostile fire
US Corporal Jesse L. Thiry Fallujah [Al Anbar Prov.] Hostile - hostile fire
US Lance Corporal Shane Lee Goldman Fallujah [Al Anbar Prov.] Hostile - hostile fire
US Sergeant David M. McKeever Baghdad (Kadhimiya District) Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Scott Quentin Larson Jr. Baghdad (Kadhimiya District) Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
Afghanistan
A Good Day
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
2348 BC Noah's ark grounded, Mount Ararat (calculated date)
1058 Bishop John "Minchio",elected as Pope Benedictus X
1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
1242 Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia
1603 New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
1614 Indian "princess" Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1751 Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (New York NY)
1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto. Rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1861 Federals abandon Fort Quitman TX
1862 Siege of Yorktown VA
1865 Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville VA (Appomattox Campaign)
1874 Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus", premieres in Vienna
1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville PA
1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
1906 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer
1915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
1915 French begin Woëvre-offensive
1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
1923 Firestone Company puts their inflatable tires into production
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in the 100 & 200 meter freestyle
1936 Tupelo MS virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham IL)
1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Jack Paar Show"
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 54,600 meters
1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
1964 1st driverless trains run on the London Underground
1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated (Groovy)
1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971 US Lieutenant Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19)
1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
1979 Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
1981 Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign secretary resigns due to Falkland Islands war
1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121 meters)
1986 2 US soldiers & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin discotheque bombing
1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
1989 Solidarity granted legal status in Poland
1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
1991 US begins air drops to Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq
1992 Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress
1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
1992 Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome Randy "Macho Man" Savage beats Ric Flair for title, Hulk Hogan disqualifies Sid Justice
1993 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 Florida Marlins 1st game - beat Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3
1994 President Clinton presided over a 90-minute town hall meeting in Charlotte, N.C., in which he called himself the victim of "false charges" in connection with the Whitewater controversy. (poor baby)
1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
1995 The House of Representatives passes, 246-188, a tax-cut bill, the final major item in the Republicans' "Contract with America."
1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semitic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
1999 Libya handed over for trial two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The men were to be
tried in the Netherlands under Scottish law.
2000 Netscape 6 browser was introduced
2003 18th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom US 3rd Infantry troops entered Baghdad for the first time. Coalition troops took several objectives surrounding the capital in the north and northwest. US warplanes hit Iraqi positions near the commercial center of Mosul. Up to 3,000 Iraqi fighters were killed as American armored vehicles moved into Baghdad.
Ali Hassan al-Majid (king of spades), Saddam Hussein’s 1st cousin and dubbed "Chemical Ali" by opponents for ordering a 1988 poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds, was killed by an airstrike on his house in Basra.
2004 A flash flood swept through two border communities in northern Mexico, flooding rivers, washing away houses and killing 15 people. Dozens more were reported missing.
2063 Earth's 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan)
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Iceland : 1st Day of Summer (or 0418)
South Korea : Arbor Day
Taiwan : Death of Chiang Kai-shek/Tomb Sweeping Day (1975)
US : Lady Luck Day
US : National Laugh Week (Day 5)
US : National Publicity Stunt Week (Day 5)
US : National Reading a Road Map Week (Day 2)
US : Fun at Work Day
US : Go for Broke Day
National Welding Month
Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Albert of Montecorvino
Christian : Feast of St DerfelGadarn
Christian : Feast of St Ethelburga of Lyminge
Christian : Feast of St Gerard of Suave-Majeure
Orthodox : Earliest possible Orthodox Easter (3/23 OS)
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Vincent Ferrer, confessor/priest CE (optional)
Religious History
1784 Birth of Louis Spohr, German violin virtuoso and composer. He is best remembered today for composing the hymn tunes GERALD ("I Want a Principle Within") and SPOHR ("All Things Bright and Beautiful").
1802 Pioneer Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I am often drawn out in thankfulness to God, who hath saved a mother of mine and, I trust, a father also, who are already in glory, where I hope to meet them both."
1811 Death of Robert Raikes, 76, the English philanthropist regarded by many as the founder (in 1780) of the modern Sunday School movement.
1953 In Washington, D.C., President Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated the Presidential Prayer Breakfast. (Its name was later changed to the Annual National Prayer Breakfast.)
1969 Pope Paul VI abolished the galero (red hat) and red shoes and buckles customarily worn by Roman Catholic cardinals.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment."
