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 Islan
1792 U.S. President George Washington cast the first presidential veto. The measure was for apportioning representatives among the states.
1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
1843 Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong to be a British crown colony.
1874 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, opens in Birkenhead, England, designed by Joseph Paxton
1887 Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling “water” in the manual alphabet.
1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville PA
1895 Oscar Wilde loses his criminal libel case triggered by accusations of homosexuality
1923 Firestone Company puts their inflatable tires into production
1930 Mahatma Gandhi defies British law by making salt in India instead of buying it from the British.
1933 The first operation to remove a lung was performed at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British prime minister.
1971 Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
1971 US Lt William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre
1986 A discotheque in Berlin was bombed by Libyan terrorists. The U.S. attacked Libya with warplanes in retaliation on April 15, 1986.
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
1992 Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome Randy “Macho Man” Savage beats Ric Flair for title, Hulk Hogan disqualifies Sid Justice
1999 Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
1999 In Laramie, WY, Russell Henderson pled guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in the death of Matthew Shepard.
2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks
2015 Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its “Rape on Campus” story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited
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 **
