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1869 - Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier of the Revolutionary War, died at the age of 109.1887 - In a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, British historian John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (Lord Acton) wrote, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority...”
1915 - Jess Willard knocked out Jack Johnson in the 26th round to win the heavyweight boxing championship held in Havana, Cuba. Gee, anybody who goes 26 rounds would probably wish to be knocked out by that time...
1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, OH began the first regular production of balloon tires.
1933 - The first operation to remove a lung was performed -- at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
1948 - WGN-TV (Channel 9), Chicago, IL began broadcasting. It was owned by the Chicago Tribune Co.
1951 - Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death. They were the first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and the first to suffer the death penalty during peacetime.
1955 - Richard J. Daley was elected mayor of Chicago, IL, starting one of the most colorful political careers not only of the Windy City, but anywhere.
1955 - Sir Winston Churchill resigned as British Prime Minister; Sir Anthony Eden succeeded him.
1958 - Johnny Mathis’ album, Johnny’s Greatest Hits, on Columbia Records, made it to the pop music charts for the first time. The LP remained on the charts for a record 490 weeks (nearly 9-1/2 years!) The record began its stay at number one (three weeks) on June 9, 1958. Mathis studied opera from age 13 and earned a track and field scholarship at San Francisco State College. He was invited to Olympic try-outs and chose a singing career instead. He was originally a jazz-style singer when Mitch Miller of Columbia switched Mathis to singing pop ballads. Johnny would chart over 60 albums in 30 years.
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Neil A. Armstrong took his X-15 rocket plane to 54,860 meters (179,986.5 feet).
1964 - U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, who commanded the Allied Forces in the South Pacific during World War II, died. He was 84 years old. In 1951, MacArthur remarked to Congress that “old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”
1965 - Two very British but very different women were the cause of much celebration at the 37th Annual Academy Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles. My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins vied for Best Picture as did Alexis Zorbas; Becket; and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. And the winner was ... My Fair Lady (Jack L. Warner, producer). My Fair Lady was the name in the winner’s envelope seven more times: Best Director (George Cukor); Best Actor (Rex Harrison); Best Cinematography/Color (Harry Stradling); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration/Color (Gene Allen, Cecil Beaton, George James Hopkins); Best Costume Design/Color (Cecil Beaton); Best Sound (George Groves-Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept.); and Best Music/Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment (André Previn). Mary Poppins was not about to let Eliza Doolittle steal all her thunder. Julie Andrews was awarded an Oscar for Best Actress for her title role; Cotton Warburton won for Best Film Editing; Peter Ellenshaw, Hamilton Luske, Eustace Lycett for Best Effects, Special Visual Effects and Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman won for Best Music/Song (Chim Chim Cher-ee from Mary Poppins) and for Best Music/Score-Substantially Original. The two remaining crowd-pleaser awards went to Peter Ustinov in Topkapi for Best Supporting Actor and to Lila Kedrova in Alexis Zorbas for Best Supporting Actress. The host for this gala ceremony was Bob Hope.
1966 - Timothy Leary spoke at New York’s Town Hall and compared LSD to a microscope saying that the drug “is to psychology what the microscope is to biology,” leaving not just a few to wonder, “What’s he smokin’?”
1968 - Violence erupted in several American cities in reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1971 - Mount Etna erupted in Sicily, Italy.
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese statesman and president of the Republic (1943-1950) and President of the Republic of China, Taiwan (1950-1975), died at 87 years of age.
1976 - Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died of kidney failure en route (in a private jet) to a hospital in Houston (from Acapulco, Mexico). He left an estate estimated at $2 billion. Four hundred prospective heirs tried to inherit his fortune, but it eventually went to twenty-two cousins on both sides of his family. Texas, Nevada and California claimed inheritance-tax in disputes reviewed by the Supreme Court three times. Hughes Aircraft ended up in the hands of Hughes Medical Institute, which sold it to General Motors in 1985 for $5 billion. Four hotels and six casinos in Las Vegas and Reno remained with Summa Corporation.
1981 - Bob (The Bear) Hite, lead vocalist of Canned Heat, died of a heart attack in Venice, California. He was 36 year old. Canned Heat’s mix of blues and progressive rock culminated in their hit single, On the Road Again and they appeared at the Monterrey Pop Festival and Woodstock. However, the suicide death of group co-founder Alan Wilson in 1970 effectively ended Canned Heat’s success.
1982 - After years of publication to the radio and recording industry, Record World magazine ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy protection.
1982 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas died. He was 71 years old.
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers used his patented 12-foot skyhook in the fourth quarter to become the all-time NBA regular season scoring leader this night. He broke the previous mark held by Wilt Chamberlain who had 31,419 points. Kareem broke the scoring record on a pass play from Magic Johnson and with three Utah Jazz players guarding him. The Lakers won, 129-115.
1985 - Broadcasters banded together to play the single, We Are the World, between 10 and 11 a.m. E.S.T. Stations in the United States were joined by hundreds of others around the world in a sign of unification for the African relief cause. Even Muzak made the song only the second vocal selection it has ever played in elevators and offices since its inception.
1987 - Calling it the first launching of a television network in almost 40 years, the FOX Broadcasting Company, under the direction of media and publishing baron Rupert Murdoch started with two Sunday night offerings. OK. Who said one was The Simpsons? “Hey, man, get a life. Not true. Cowabonga, dude!” Thanks, Bart. No, actually, Married......With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show were the beginnings of the FOX lineup.
1990 - Paul Newman won a court battle with Westport Deli owner Julius Gold. The court ruled that all profits from Newman’s Own would continue to be given to charity. Gold had claimed Newman promised him 8 percent of the profits for helping launch the company.
1991 - Former U.S. Senator (from Texas) John Tower, his daughter and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.
1992 - Billionaire CEO Sam Moore Walton, whose Wal-Mart discount store chain made him one of the world’s richest men, died of cancer in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was 74 years old.
1993 - North Carolina defeated Michigan 77-71 to win its first NCAA basketball championship in eleven years.
1997 - Notorious BIG’s album Life After Death debuted at #1 on the Billboard. This, a month after the rapper was gunned down in Los Angeles. Life After Death sold nearly 700,000 copies in its first week of release.
1998 - The world’s longest suspension bridge, Japan’s Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, opened. The $3.8 billion-bridge links Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s four main islands, with the biggest island of Honshu. The mid-section length, between the bridge’s two massive support towers, measures 6,529 feet (about 1,990 meters).
1999 - Libya handed over to U.N. officials the two men accused in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. The suspects were then flown to the Hague to be tried under Scottish law.
2000 - The movie Black And White opened in the U.S. The flick, about hip-hop culture in New York City, features James Caan, Robert Downey, Jr., Stacy Edwards and Gaby Hoffman.
2000 - Yoshiro Mori became Japan’s new prime minister. He succeeded Keizo Obuchi, who had suffered a stroke.
2001 - Wang Zhizhi of China made his NBA debut for the Dallas Mavericks as they beat the Atlanta Hawks 108-to-94. Wang, 7'1" tall, was the first Chinese player in the NBA. (He scored six points and grabbed three rebounds in his first game.)
2002 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Big Trouble, starring Tim Allen, Zooey Deschanel, Omar Epps and Dennis Farina; High Crimes, with Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel and Amanda Peet; and National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, starring Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Tim Matheson and Kal Penn.
2003 - Saddam Hussein’s first cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, was killed by an airstrike on his house in Basra, Iraq. Al-Majid was dubbed ‘Chemical Ali‘ by witnesses for ordering a 1988 poison-gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds.
2004 - The University of Connecticut won the basketball NCAA final beating Georgia Tech 82-73.
2004 - Pulitzer Prize winners were announced: Edward P. Jones won the fiction award for his The Known World; Steven Hahn won the history award for A Nation Under Our Feet...; and Anne Applebaum won the general non-fiction award for Gulag: A History.
2005 - The U.S. State Department announced that Americans returning from Canada, Mexico and elsewhere would be required to show their passports. The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative requires all U.S. citizens, Canadians, citizens of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, and citizens of Mexico to have a passport or other accepted secure document to enter or re-enter the U.S.
2005 - Deaths on this day included cartoonist Dale Messick (b.1906), creator of the Brenda Starr strip, who died six days short of her 99th birthday; and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow (The Dangling Man [1944], Herzog [1964], Ravelstein [2000]) at 89 years of age.
2005 - Amnesty International said China accounted for the majority of executions reported worldwide in 2004, but the true numbers are impossible to count since many death sentences are carried out secretly.
2006 - Apple Computer Inc. announced a public beta of software to allow the Windows operating system to run on Intel Mac computers. Boot Camp lets users dual-boot Windows XP on a Mac.
2006 - Singer and songwriter and pop music star of the 1960s, Gene Pitney, died on tour in Great Britain. He was 66 years old. Pitney’s chart-topping hits included Town Without Pity, Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa, (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance, Only Love Can Break a Heart and It Hurts to Be in Love.
2006 - Mike Pressler, the lacrosse coach of Duke University, resigned amid allegations that three players raped a stripper at an off-campus party in March 2006. In another reaction to the charges, Duke president Richard H. Brodhead cancelled the remainder of the university’s lacrosse season.
2007 - The Reaping opened in the U.S. The thriller stars Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba and AnnaSophia Robb.
2007 - In Marquette County, Michigan it did not look very much like spring. The National Weather Service in Negaunee Township measured 24 inches of snowfall, doubling the 1974 record of 12 inches.
2007 - U.S. House speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA, met with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and members of the all-male Shura Council. She discussed the inclusion of women in the nation’s politics. Pelosi wore a pantsuit in place of the traditional abaya, the long black robe worn by women in Saudi Arabia.
2007 - Kirk Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corporation offered $4.5 billion in cash to buy the Chrysler Group. The following month, however, Kerkorian lost out to Cerberus Capital Management, who put up $7.4 billion for the automaker.
2008 - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the growing global economic crisis the largest challenge of its kind in centuries.
2008 - Film legend Charlton Heston died at 84 years of age. Heston won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing Ben-Hur and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in many movie epics.
2009 - North Korea defied international warnings, sending a rocket hurtling over the Pacific Ocean. U.S. President Barack Obama called the launch an illicit test of the North Korean regime’s long-range missile technology that threatened the security of nations near and far.
2010 - A huge underground methane gas explosion killed 29 coal miners at Massey Energy Co.’s sprawling Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. In 2009 the U.S. Mine Safety and health Administration (MHSA) had cited the mine 515 times, often for problems with its ventilation and escape route plans.
2011 - Two British tabloid journalists were arrested for illegally intercepting voice-mail messages left on cell phones. Media reports identified Neville Thurlbeck and Ian Edmondson of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in an ongoing phone-hacking scandal.
2012 - Some 20 million Britons were banned from using garden hoses, after one of the driest two-year periods on record. Britons caught using a ‘hosepipe’ faced a 1,000 pound ($1,590) fine. Public parks and businesses were under the same restrictions.
2013 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Evil Dead, starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas and Elizabeth Blackmore; The Brass Teapot, with Juno Temple, Alexis Bledel, Alia Shawkat, Michael Angarano, Matt Walsh and Lucy Walters; The Company You Keep, starring Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Sam Elliott, Jackie Evancho, Brendan Gleeson, Terrence Howard, Richard Jenkins and Anna Kendrick; the documentary, Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (about the life of young college professor Angela Davis); Lotus Eaters, with Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Johnny Flynn, Benn Northover, Liam Browne, Amber Anderso, Jay Choi, Gina Bramhill, Daisy Lewis and Cynthia Fortune Ryan; the documentary No Place on Earth (five Jewish families sped a year and a half in pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis); and Upstream Color, with Andrew Sensenig, Shane Carruth, Amy Seimetz, Brina Palencia, Juli Erickson and Frank Mosley.
2013 - A U.S. federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make ‘morning-after’ emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled the drug be made widely available, blasting the U.S. F.D.A. for what he said was an “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable” decision to reject a citizen petition that called for ending age restrictions.
2014 - Atlanta’s Roman Catholic Archbishop Wilton Gregory said that he would sell his $2.2 million mansion just three months after he finished building it and moved in. This, in an effort to appease parishioners who were angered by his housing choice.
2015 - Rolling Stone magazine withdrew -- and apologized for -- a discredited Nov 2014 story about a gang rape on a U.S. college campus in Virginia. The mag published a review of the debacle that found “avoidable” failures in its basic journalism practices.
2016 - San Francisco became the first U.S. city to require six weeks of paid leave for new parents. The law granted six-weeks off for fathers and mothers working for companies with 20 or more employees, nearly doubling the pay they were previously eligible to collect under California law.
2016 - PayPal announced that it was canceling plans for a new facility in North Carolina, whose governor had signed into law a bill that barred local governments from passing antidiscrimination protections for LGBT people.
2017 - Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s political strategist, lost his national security council membership. A presidential memorandum took Bannon, chief White House link to the nationalist rightwing, off the country’s main body for foreign policy and national security decision-making. It also restored the traditional roles of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the director of national intelligence to the NSC.
2017 - Norway announced plans to build a 5,610-foot (1,700-metre) tunnel for ships. The Stad Ship Tunnel was expected to open in 2023 at a cost of $314 million. The 1,700-metre passageway through a piece of rocky peninsula would allow vessels to avoid a treacherous part of sea.
2018 - German scientists in Antarctica said they had harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides. The harvest at Germany’s Neumayer Station III was part of a project designed to make it possible for astronauts to cultivate fresh food on other planets.
2019 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: The Best of Enemies, starring Sam Rockwell, Taraji P. Henson and Wes Bentley; Pet Sematary, with Jason Clarke, John Lithgow and Amy Seimetz; Shazam!, starring Zachary Levi, Djimon Hounsou and Michelle Borth; The Beach Bum, with Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg and Isla Fisher; Billboard, starring Eric Roberts, Heather Matarazzo and Darlene Cates; Division 19, with Alison Doody, Linus Roache and Lotte Verbeek; The Haunting of Sharon Tate, starring Hilary Duff, Jonathan Bennett and Lydia Hearst; Peterloo with Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake and Neil Bell; The Public, starring Jena Malone, Taylor Schilling and Christian Slater; Teen Spirit, with Elle Fanning, Rebecca Hall and Millie Brady; Unicorn Store, starring Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson and Bradley Whitford; and The Wind, with Miles Anderson, Caitlin Gerard and Julia Goldani Telles.
2019 - Arif Naqvi, the chief executive of the collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd, was arrested at London’s Heathrow airport on U.S. charges of defrauding investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Managing partner Mustafa Abdel-Wadood was later arrested in New York.
2019 - G7 foreign ministers ended a 2-day meeting in France. They adopted joint commitments to better handle the world’s top security challenges. (U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen stayed at home citing domestic duties and Washington sent lower-ranking officials instead.)
2020 - 44-year-old Tommie McGlothen Jr, a mentally ill Black man, died after being tazed, punched and beaten by police in Shreveport, Louisiana. Four officers were later indicted on charges of negligent homicide and malfeasance.
2020 - 44-year-old Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was released from prison after spending almost five years behind bars. Wang’s initial detention in 2015 came as part of the so-called ‘709’ crackdown, named because it began on July 9 that year. Wang had pursued land rights cases for poor villagers and represented members of the banned Falun Gong meditation sect. He was sent to prison for “subverting state power.”
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The United Nations urged governments around the world to fight the rise in domestic violence as abuse soared since stay-at-home orders were imposed. 2)A group of Franciscan monks and Roman Catholic faithful took to the streets of Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter to distribute olive branches after the traditional Palm Sunday procession was cancelled due to restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. 3)Bronx Zoo officials reported a tiger had tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what was believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. -- or a tiger anywhere.
2021 - Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing him to hold onto power until 2036, a move that formalized constitutional changes endorsed in 2020’s controversial Russian reform vote.
2021 - The Supreme Court handed Google a major victory, ruling 6-2 that its use of Oracle Corp’s software code to build the Android operating system did not violate copyright law. Justice Stephen Breyer, writing for the majority, said that allowing Oracle to enforce a copyright on its code would harm the public by making it a “lock limiting the future creativity of new programs. Oracle alone would hold the key.”
2021 - India reported a record rise in COVID-19 infections, becoming the second country after the United States to post more than 100,000 new cases in a day. And politicians were staging massive election rallies raising even more fear of spreading the virus.
2022 - The Internal Revenue Service suspended information exchanges with Russia’s tax authorities in a bid to hamper Moscow’s ability to collect taxes and fund its war against Ukraine.
2022 - Singer Bobby Rydell died at 79 years of age. The Philadelphia-born Rydell became a teenage idol in the late 1950s. Over the course of his recording career he placed 19 singles in the Billboard Top 40 and 34 in the Hot 100. His most well-known songs were Wild One and Volare (cover of an Italian song by Domenico Modugno, Nel blu, dipinto di blu).
2022 - U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain, the U.S. and Australia had agreed to cooperate on hypersonic weapons and electronic warfare capabilities.
2022 - General Motors and Honda said they would co-develop a series of affordable electric vehicles. They planned to produce millions of cars by 2027.
2023 - New movies in the U.S. included: AIR, starring Matt Damon, Jason Bateman and Ben Affleck; On a Wing and a Prayer, with Heather Graham, Dennis Quaid and Jesse Metcalfe; and the animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie, with characters voiced by Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Sebastian Maniscalco, Charles Martinetand Kevin Michael Richardson.
2023 - NPR (National Public Radio) sharply criticized Twitter for labeling NPR as a “state-affiliated media” organization akin to foreign propaganda outlets such as Russia’s RT and Sputnik. In a statement, NPR CEO John Lansing called the decision to lump NPR in with other outlets that Twitter identifies as being under government control “unacceptable.” NPR reporter David Gura also pointed out that NPR was once listed alongside the BBC as a state-funded organization -- that was not defined as state-affiliated because it was editorially independent.
2024 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: The supernatural horror film, The First Omen, starring Nell Tiger Free, Bill Nighy and Charles Dance; and the creepy Monkey Man, with Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley and Sobhita Dhulipala.
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Birthdays on This Day April 5
1827 - Joseph Lister
British surgeon, inventor: Listerine mouthwash; President of the Royal Society [1895 to 1900]; died Feb 10, 19121856 - Booker T. Washington
educator, black leader, author: Up from Slavery; died Nov 14, 19151858 - Washington Atlee Burpee
botanist: developed lima beans; founder W. Atlee Burpee & Company [Burpee Seeds]; died Nov 26, 19151871 - Glenn Scobey ‘Pop’ Warner
football player, coach: Univ of Georgia [1895–1896], Cornell Univ [1897–1898, 1904–1906], Carlisle Indian Industrial School [1899–1903, 1907–1914], Univ of Pittsburgh [1915–1923], Stanford Univ [1924–1932], Temple Univ [1933–1938]; 4 U.S. championships: 1915, 1916, 1918, 1926; career college football record: 319–106–32; brought innovative playing mechanics to college football: the screen pass, spiral punt, single- and double-wing formations, the use of shoulder and thigh pads, designed helmets, red for backs and white for ends; died Sep 7, 19541900 - Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy
Academy Award-winning actor: Captains Courageous [1937], Boys Town [1938]; San Francisco, Stanley and Livingstone, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [1941], Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Adam’s Rib, Father of the Bride [1950], Pat and Mike, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Mountain, The Old Man and the Sea, How the West Was Won, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; died June 10, 1967
1901 - Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg)
Academy Award-winning [supporting] actor: Hud [1963], Being There [1979]; The Vampire Bat, Captains Courageous, Ninotchka, Three Hearts for Julia, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, The Americanization of Emily, I Never Sang for My Father, The Candidate, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, The Changeling, Ghost Story; died Aug 4, 19811905 - Bill Raisch
actor: the infamous one-armed man in TV’s The Fugitive; The New Interns, Incident in an Alley, Around the World in Eighty Days, Experiment Alcatraz, The Mark of the Whistler; died Jul 31, 19841908 - Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis
Academy Award-winning actress: Dangerous [1935], Jezebel [1938]; Dark Victory, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Now, Voyager, Mr. Skeffington, All About Eve, The Star, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; died Oct 6, 19891908 - Jagjivan Ram
political leader: India; died in July 6, 19861909 - Albert R. ‘Cubby’ Broccoli
film producer: James Bond series: Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights, A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, The Spy Who Loved Me, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, etc.; died June 27, 19961912 - Gordon Jones
actor: McLintock!, Son of Flubber, Everything’s Ducky, The Absent Minded Professor [1961], The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The Shaggy Dog; died June 20, 19631916 - (Eldred) Gregory Peck
Academy Award-winning actor: To Kill a Mockingbird [1962]; The Keys of the Kingdom, The Yearling, Duel in the Sun, Gentleman’s Agreement, Twelve O’Clock High, David and Bathsheba, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Roman Holiday, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Moby Dick [1956], The Guns of Navarone, Marooned, MacArthur, The Boys from Brazil, Moby Dick [TV: 1998]; Jean Hersholt Humanitarian (Academy) Award [1968]; died June 12, 20031917 - Robert Bloch
writer: Psycho, American Gothic, The Scarf; films: The Return of Captain Nemo, The Dead Won’t Die; died Sep 23, 19941920 - Arthur Hailey
author: Airport, The Final Diagnosis; died Nov 25, 20041921 - Robert Q. Lewis
comedian, TV quiz show panelist: What’s My Line, To Tell the Truth, Call My Bluff; died Dec 11, 19911922 - Gale Storm (Josephine Cottle)
singer: Ivory Tower, actress: My Little Margie; died Jun 27, 20091926 - Roger Corman
director: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Masque of the Red Death, The Raven, Little Shop of Horrors, The Fall of the House of Usher, Swamp Women1926 - Stan Levey
musician: drums: in band with Charlie Parker; one of the Lighthouse All-Stars; composer; died Apr 19, 20051928 - Tony Williams
singer: group: The Platters: Only You, The Great Pretender, Twilight Time, My Prayer, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Harbor Lights; died Aug 14, 19921929 - Nigel Hawthorne
actor: Richard III, Demolition Man, Firefox, Young Winston, Gandhi; died Dec 26, 20011932 - Billy Bland
singer: Let the Little Girl Dance, My Heart’s on Fire; died Mar 22, 20171933 - Frank Gorshin
impressionist, actor: Batman, The Great Impostor; died May 17, 20051934 - Stanley Turrentine
jazz musician: tenor sax; one of the ‘Pittsburgh Brethren’; played with Tommy Turrentine [his brother], Lowell Fulson, Tadd Dameron, Earl Bostic, Max Roach; his hits included: The Look of Love, Midnight Special, Look Out, Pieces of a Dream, Straight Ahead, Wonderland, La Place; died Sep 12, 20001937 - Colin Powell
U.S. Secretary of State [2001-2005]; military leader: four-star general, Chairman U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989-1993]; died Oct 18, 20211939 - Ronnie White
songwriter, singer: group: The Miracles: Shop Around, You Really Got a Hold on Me, Mickey’s Monkey, Ooo Baby Baby, The Tracks of My Tears, Going to A-Go-Go, More Love, I Second that Emotion; died Aug 26, 19951940 - Tommy Cash
songwriter: You Don’t Hear; singer: Six White Horses, Rise and Shine, One Song Away, I Recall a Gypsy Woman; brother of Johnny Cash1941 - Michael Moriarty
actor: Law & Order, Bang the Drum Slowly, The Last Detail, Windmills of the Gods1942 - Peter Greenaway
director, writer: Prospero’s Books, The Belly of an Architect, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, A Zed & Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, The Draughtsman’s Contract1942 - John Mealing
musician: keyboards; composer, arranger: groups: If: Here Comes Mr. Time, Forgotten Roads, Sweet January, What Can a Friend Say?; Don Rendell-Carr Quintet: Playtime, Dusk Fire, Space Walk, What Am I Here For?1943 - Max Gail
actor: Sodbusters, D.C. Cab, Night Moves, Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, Normal Life, Pearl1945 - Doug Favell
hockey: Univ. of Colorado; NHL: Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies1946 - Jane Asher
actress: Dreamchild, Masque of the Red Death, The Prince and the Pauper, Brideshead Revisited1949 - Dr. Judith A. Resnik
electrical engineer, astronaut: mission specialist on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger [died Jan 28, 1986]1950 - Agnetha Faltskog
singer: group: Abba: People Need Love, Waterloo, Dancing Queen; solo: Can’t Shake Loose1951 - Rennie (Renaldo Antonio Porte) Stennett
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [shares record: seven hits in nine-inning game - 9/16/75/World Series: 1979], SF Giants1951 - Brad Van Pelt
football: Michigan State Univ. [Maxwell Award Winner: 1972]; NFL: Buffalo Bills, NY Giants; died Feb 17, 20091952 - Mitch Pileggi
actor: Dallas [2012], The X-Files, Stargate Atlantis, Flash of Genius, Sons of Anarchy, Medium, Supernatural, Human Target, Castle, The Finder, NCIS1955 - Anthony Horowitz
novelist, screenwriter: Mindgame, The House of Silk, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Foyle’s War, Collision, Injustice1956 - Cumisha Amado
actress [1990-2002]: X-rated films: Anal Annie’s All-Girl Escort Service, Incocknito, Slut Safari, Everybody Wants Some1966 - Mike McCready
musician: guitar: group: Pearl Jam1967 - Tasia Valenza
actress: All My Children, The A-Team, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Prison of Secrets, Sometimes They Come Back, Dead Man Walking, Crackers; voice actress: Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, Baten Kaitos Origins, Marvel Ultimate Alliance1968 - Gianna Amore
model, Playboy Playmate: Miss August 1989; actress: Nothing But Trouble, Screwball Hotel1968 - Paula Cole
Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer: Best New Artist [1997]: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?, I Don’t Want to Wait, Amen, Coming Down, Music in Me1971 - Krista Allen
actress: Days of Our Lives, Baywatch Hawaii, Emmanuelle series, What About Brian, Liar Liar, Sunset Strip, Totally Blonde, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Anger Management, The Final Destination1972 - Pat Green
singer: Wave on Wave, Let Me, Feels Just Like It Should, Don’t Break My Heart Again, Dixie Lullaby, Way Back Texas; more1973 - Tony Banks
football [quarterback]: Michigan State Univ; NFL: SL Rams, Baltimore Ravens, Washington Redskins, Houston Texans1973 - Pharrell Williams
rapper: LPs: In My Mind, Girl; has won multiple Grammy Awards including two with The Neptunes1975 - Shammond Williams
basketball [guard]: Univ of North Carolina; Atlanta Hawks, Seattle SuperSonics, Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets, New Orleans Hornets, Orlando Magic1976 - Sterling K. Brown
Emmy Award-winning actor: This Is Us [2017]; Black Panther, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Spaceman, Marshall, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Army Wives1976 - Henrik Stenson
golf champ: 2016 Open; PGA Tour: 2013 FedEx Cup, 2007 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, 2009 The Players Championship, 2013 Deutsche Bank Championship, 2013 Tour Championship, 2017 Wyndham Championship1976 - Ike Hilliard
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Florida; NFL: NY Giants1980 - Matt Bonner
basketball [power forward, center]: NBA: Toronto Raptors [2004–2006]; San Antonio Spurs [2006–2016]: 2007 NBA champs1982 - Hayley Atwell
actress: A View from the Bridge, Cassandra’s Dream, The Duchess, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Pillars of the Earth, Cinderella, Ant-Man1982 - Lacey DuValle
actress [2000-2012]: X-rated films: Young As They Cum 8, Up and Cummers series, Strap-On Boot Camp, Smokin' Hot Hand Jobs 1, Most Blazin’ And Amazin’, Contract Girls Gone Gonzo, As Nasty as She Wants to Be 1, Anacondas and Lil Mamas 11983 - Brendan Steele
golf champ: PGA Tour: 2011 Valero Texas Open, 2016, 2017 Safeway Open1984 - Marshall Allman
actor: Sweat Pea, Hostage, Little Black Book, Shallow Ground, Prison Break1989 - Lily James
actress: Downton Abbey, Cinderella [2015], Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Just William1994 - Simona Tabasco
Italian actress: The White Lotus, Perez, Doc – Nelle tue mani TV series
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Hit Music on This Day April 5
1944Long Ago and Far Away (facts) - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By (facts) - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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