Subj : This Day In History
To : All
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Mon Apr 05 2021 04:02 am
Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date
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By Scott Labrecque
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Births:
04/05/1588 Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan)
04/05/1595 John Wilson, composer
04/05/1598 Laurentius Erhard, composer
04/05/1626 John van Kessel, Flemish painter
04/05/1643 Charles V Leopold, Austrian field marshal
04/05/1649 Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale
04/05/1698 Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer
04/05/1725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)
04/05/1727 Pasquale Ankossi, composer
04/05/1732 Jean-Honor� Fragonard, France, painter
04/05/1752 S�bastien Erard, piano/harp manufacturer
04/05/1784 Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)
04/05/1788 Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
04/05/1795 Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
04/05/1799 Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer
04/05/1811 Jules Dupr�, landscape painter
04/05/1818 Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
04/05/1822 James Nagle, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
04/05/1824 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman)
04/05/1825 David Rumph 'Neighbor' Jones, Major General (Confederate Army)
04/05/1827 Joseph Lister, England, physician (founded aseptic surgery)
04/05/1828 Pietro Plantania, composer
04/05/1830 Alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever)
04/05/1832 Jules-Fran�ois Camille Ferry, French statesman
04/05/1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
04/05/1838 Alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist
04/05/1839 Robert Smalls, Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Rep-SC)
04/05/1839 Stanislaw Pilinski, composer
04/05/1845 Jules M Cambon, French gov-gen of Algeria/ambassador
04/05/1853 Alfonso Randano, composer
04/05/1854 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer
04/05/1856 Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator (1st black on US stam
04/05/1857 Alexander-Jozef von Battenberg, ruler of Bulgaria (1879-86)
04/05/1859 Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
04/05/1862 Louis Ganne, composer
04/05/1869 Albert Roussel, Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende)
04/05/1869 Karl Wagenfeld, Defeated German writer (Daud un D�wel)
04/05/1871 Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist (French revue)
04/05/1876 Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer
04/05/1885 Dimitrie Cuclin, composer
04/05/1890 Fie Carelsen, actress
04/05/1893 Clas Thunberg, Finland, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924, 28)
04/05/1893 P�l Szab�, Hungarian farmer/author (Talpalatnyi F�ld)
04/05/1899 Willianm Hornby Steer, barrister/judge
04/05/1900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib)
04/05/1901 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter/graphic artist
04/05/1901 Chester Bowles, Mass, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal)
04/05/1901 Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], Macon Ga, actor (Hud, Ghost Story)
04/05/1903 Thomas Baron Pitfield, composer
04/05/1905 Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
04/05/1905 Jef Maes, composer
04/05/1907 J Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist/anatomist
04/05/1908 Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
04/05/1908 George Schick, Prague Czech, conductor (Chicago Symphony)
04/05/1908 Grady Sutton, Chattanooga Tn, actor (Pruitts of South Hampton)
04/05/1908 Herbert von Karajan, Austria, Berlin Philharmonic conductor/Nazi
04/05/1908 Mary Hemingway, writer (Ernest Hemmingway Biography)
04/05/1909 Alberto Romero 'Cubby' Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond)
04/05/1911 Goddard Lieberson, Hanley Staffordshire England, recording exec
04/05/1911 Gordon Jones, Alden Iowa, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello)
04/05/1916 Gregory Peck, La Jolla Calif, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthu
04/05/1917 Richard Yardumian, Philadelphia, composer (Come Creator Spirit)
04/05/1917 Robert [Albert] Bloch, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho)
04/05/1919 Douglas Henley, British auditor-general
04/05/1920 Arthur Halley, England, Canadian author (Hotel, Airport)
04/05/1920 Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch premier (1971-73)
04/05/1921 Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
04/05/1921 Robert Q Lewis, NYC, TV host (Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show)
04/05/1922 Charles Savage, Belgian Minister of Justice
04/05/1922 Gale Storm, Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show)
04/05/1922 Harry Freedman, composer
04/05/1922 Tom Finney, British soccer star
04/05/1923 Ernest Mandel, Belgian philosopher/economist
04/05/1923 Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president (1965-75)
04/05/1923 Stanley Orme, chairman (British Labour Party)
04/05/1924 Mart Kempers, graphicy designer/statue artist
04/05/1925 Oldrich Flosman, composer
04/05/1926 Roger Corman, Detroit, producer/director (Little Shop of Horrors)
04/05/1928 David Farquhar Andress, composer
04/05/1928 Michael Bryant, actor (Sakharov, Girly)
04/05/1928 Tony Williams, US, singer (Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights)
04/05/1928 Will Gaines, jazz dancer
04/05/1929 Hugo Claus, Flemish writer/director (Koele Lover, Sugar)
04/05/1929 Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
04/05/1933 Frank Gorshin, Pittsburgh Pa, comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman)
04/05/1934 Stanley Turrentine, jazz saxophonist
04/05/1934 Tina Maria Stone, runner (1 year distance record of 15,472 miles)
04/05/1935 Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer
04/05/1936 John Albert, professor (Master of University College Oxford)
04/05/1936 John White, composer
04/05/1937 Colin Powell, Bronx NY, general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs)
04/05/1939 David Winters, London England, choreographer (Steve Allen Comedy Hou
04/05/1939 Lonnie White, vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
04/05/1940 Aliza Kashi, Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
04/05/1941 David LaFlamme, electric violinist (It's a Beautiful Day)
04/05/1941 Eric Burdon, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
04/05/1941 Michael Moriarity, Detroit, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
04/05/1942 Allan Clarke, rock vocalist (Hollies-Air That I Breathe)
04/05/1943 Jonathan Lynn, Bath England, actor (Danny-Doctor in the House)
04/05/1943 Max Gail, Mich, (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People)
04/05/1944 Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)
04/05/1944 Dave Holland, heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
04/05/1944 Peter T King, (Rep-R-New York)
04/05/1944 Willy G 'Willeke' van Ammelrooy, actress/wife of Marco Bakker
04/05/1946 Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's former girlfriend/actress (Deep End)
04/05/1946 Jennifer Penney, ballerina
04/05/1946 Larry Frederick Wendt, composer
04/05/1949 Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron Ohio, ast (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)
04/05/1950 Agnetha F�ltskog, Stockholm Sweden, rocker (ABBA-Waterloo)
04/05/1950 Anna Ulvaeus, rocker (Aha-Take on Me)
04/05/1950 Franklin R Chang-Diaz, Costa Rica, PhD/astro (STS 61C, 34, 46, 60)
04/05/1950 Mildred Douglas, Surinames/Dutch singer (Mai Tai)
04/05/1951 Everett Morton, rocker (English Beat)
04/05/1951 Roosevel Ferguson, Arkansas, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
04/05/1954 Christopher S Nelson, New Orleans LA, actor (Sons & Daughters)
04/05/1954 Michael W Butler, created TODAY program
04/05/1954 Stan Ridgeway, rocker (Mosquito-Garage Sale)
04/05/1955 Janice Long, British radio host
04/05/1957 Vince Gill, Norman Okla, country singer (When I Call Your Name)
04/05/1958 Cammie Lusko, LA Calif, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
04/05/1958 Johan Kriek, South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982)
04/05/1968 Gianna Amore, Warwick RI, playmate (August, 1989)
04/05/2173 Harcourt Fenton 'Harry' Mudd, New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek)
Deaths:
04/05/ 828 Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies
04/05/1258 Julian van Cornillon/Luik, Flemish saint, dies
04/05/1270 Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies
04/05/1531 Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
04/05/1649 John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies
04/05/1673 Fran�ois Caron, Belgian colonial director, Japan, dies at about 72
04/05/1684 William Brouncker, 2nd viscout/1st pres of Royal Society, dies
04/05/1693 Anne ML of Orl�ans, duchess of Montpensier (Grande Mademoiselle), di
04/05/1697 Charles XI, King of Sweden (1660-97), dies
04/05/1712 John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company, dies at 63
04/05/1732 Johann Christian Schieferdecker, composer, dies at 52
04/05/1765 Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies
04/05/1794 Georges-Jaques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined
04/05/1811 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
04/05/1871 Georg Andreas Henkel, composer, dies at 66
04/05/1878 Wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 88
04/05/1896 John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66
04/05/1900 Comte de Villebois-Marevil, French/S African general, dies in battle
04/05/1907 Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth), dies at 65
04/05/1908 Gaetano Coronaro, composer, dies at 55
04/05/1918 Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geocount, dies
04/05/1921 Alphonsus J M Diepenbrock, classic composer, dies at 58
04/05/1922 Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice, dies at 85
04/05/1923 George Edward Stanhope Molyne�x Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, dies
04/05/1928 Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archelogist, dies
04/05/1934 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer, dies at 74
04/05/1935 Emil Mlynarski, composer, dies at 64
04/05/1944 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
04/05/1945 Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer, dies at 42
04/05/1946 Vincent Millie Youmans, composer, dies
04/05/1954 Claude Delvincourt, composer, dies at 66
04/05/1963 Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (The Style), dies at 73
04/05/1963 Julius Harrison, composer, dies at 78
04/05/1964 Douglas MacArthur, US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84
04/05/1969 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73
04/05/1969 R�mulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84
04/05/1972 Brian Donlevy, actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73
04/05/1974 William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49
04/05/1975 Victor GM Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65), dies at 58
04/05/1976 Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
04/05/1981 Cornelis Verolme, ship builder, dies at 80
04/05/1982 Abe Fortas, Supreme court justice, dies at 71
04/05/1984 Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
04/05/1984 Theo Koomen, radio reporter, dies in auto-accident at 54
04/05/1986 Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82
04/05/1990 Nico Scheepmaker, columnist/poet, dies
04/05/1991 John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash
04/05/1991 Manley L 'Sonny' Carter Jr, US astronaut, dies in an accident
04/05/1992 Anthony 'Tony' Papa, big band leader, dies at 65
04/05/1992 Sam Walton, Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74
04/05/1992 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies
04/05/1994 Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions)
Significant Events:
04/05/ 823 Pope Peschalis I crowned Lotharius I, compassionate emperor of Franc
04/05/1058 Bishop John 'Minchio', [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X
04/05/1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
04/05/1242 Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia
04/05/1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
04/05/1614 2nd parliment of King James I begin session (no enactments)
04/05/1614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
04/05/1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
04/05/1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
04/05/1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
04/05/1812 Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish
04/05/1814 Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
04/05/1815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
04/05/1847 Opera 'Die Fledermaus' is produced (Vienna)
04/05/1853 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #24 Themis
04/05/1853 Asteroid 24, Themis discovered
04/05/1853 DeGasparis discovers his 7th asteroid, Themis (24)
04/05/1861 Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
04/05/1862 Siege of Yorktown VA
04/05/1865 Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)
04/05/1874 'Die Fledermaus' 1st performed (Vienna)
04/05/1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
04/05/1886 J Palisa discovers asteroid #257 Silesia
04/05/1887 Anne Sullivan teaches 'water' to Helen Keller
04/05/1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Copper Beeches' (BG)
04/05/1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
04/05/1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Empty House' (BG)
04/05/1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of 3 Students' (BG)
04/05/1895 Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested
04/05/1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
04/05/1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
04/05/1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland & England kills 25
04/05/1906 St Pius X encyclical 'On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland'
04/05/1907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #632 Pyrrha
04/05/1911 W W Aster acquires Daily Observer
04/05/1913 S Belyavskij & G Neujmin discovers asteroid #749 Malzovia
04/05/1915 French begin Wo�vre-offensive
04/05/1915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight boxing crown (23r)
04/05/1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
04/05/1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana
04/05/1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
04/05/1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
04/05/1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
04/05/1924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2235 Vittore
04/05/1925 Belgian Working people Party wins parliamentary election
04/05/1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m freestyle
04/05/1929 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1116 Catriona
04/05/1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
04/05/1932 Dutch textile strike ends
04/05/1933 US airship USS Akron struck by lightning in NJ, kills 73
04/05/1935 Croatian Boeren Party wins Yugoslavian election
04/05/1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
04/05/1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
04/05/1938 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2714 Matti
04/05/1939 Membership in Hitlerjugend becomes obligatory
04/05/1941 In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
04/05/1943 Allies bombs Mortsel
04/05/1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
04/05/1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
04/05/1945 Almelo Netherlands freed
04/05/1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
04/05/1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
04/05/1949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill)
04/05/1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
04/05/1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
04/05/1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
04/05/1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
04/05/1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, 'That's All Right'
04/05/1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
04/05/1959 Art Wall wins golf's Masters
04/05/1961 Barbra Striesand appears on 'Jack Paar Show'
04/05/1961 Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
04/05/1962 Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
04/05/1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
04/05/1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
04/05/1963 Beatles recieve their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
04/05/1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
04/05/1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
04/05/1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
04/05/1967 '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
04/05/1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
04/05/1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
04/05/1968 US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
04/05/1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
04/05/1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
04/05/1971 US lt Wiliam Calley (Mi-Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
04/05/1971 WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
04/05/1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
04/05/1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
04/05/1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
04/05/1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
04/05/1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
04/05/1976 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2928
04/05/1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
04/05/1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
04/05/1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2383 Bradley & #2433 Sootiyo
04/05/1981 Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
04/05/1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
04/05/1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
04/05/1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
04/05/1984 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3364
04/05/1986 2 US servicemen die in West Berlin discotheque bombing
04/05/1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
04/05/1986 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
04/05/1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullm
04/05/1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
04/05/1988 Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate
04/05/1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
04/05/1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning stre
04/05/1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
04/05/1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
04/05/1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
04/05/1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
04/05/1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
04/05/1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
04/05/1991 US begins air drops to Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq
04/05/1992 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
04/05/1992 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
04/05/1992 Peru president Fujimoro disbands parliament
04/05/1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
04/05/1992 Wrestlemania VIII-Randy 'Macho Man' Savage beats Ric Flair for title
04/05/1993 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
04/05/1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 4-0
04/05/1993 Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3
04/05/1993 Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins the 125th Belmont stakes
04/05/1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
04/05/1994 Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
04/05/2348 -BC- Noah's ark grounded, Mt Ararat (calculated date)
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