TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 5
2348 BC- Noah’s ark grounded, Mount Ararat (calculated date)
1242 Russian troops repel an invasion by Teutonic knights.
1614 Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1722 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
1792 George Washington casts the first presidential veto
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1874 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton
1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
1895 Oscar Wilde loses his criminal libel case triggered by accusations of homosexuality
1923 Firestone Company puts their inflatable tires into production
1951 Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage.
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British prime minister.
1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
1986 A bomb explodes in a West Berlin disco packed with American soldiers.
1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
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
1999 Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
2063 Earth’s 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek
** history.net, onthisday.com, infoplease.com, timeanddate.com, thepeoplehistory.com, on-this-day.com **
