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Gravdigr · 04-05-2017, 10:50 AM

April 5

Today is the tomorrow that we worried about yesterday.

Events

1242 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

1536 – Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: The last Roman triumph.

1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.

1710 – The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.

1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.

1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.

1915 – Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.

1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.

1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.

1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.

1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.

1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.

1984 - Marvin Gaye's funeral took place at The Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles.

1994 - Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in Seattle. Cobain's body wasn't discovered until April 8, by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system, who initially believed that Cobain was asleep, until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A suicide note was found that said, "I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now". A high concentration of heroin and traces of Valium were found in Cobain's body. His death was officially ruled as suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

1998 - British drummer Cozy Powell (Colin Flooks) was killed when his car smashed into crash barriers on the M4 motorway near Bristol, England.

1998 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world. The central span is 6,532 feet long, 1.2 miles, with the total length of the bridge being 12,831 ft, or 2.4 miles.

1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

2006 - Gene Pitney was found dead aged 65 in his bed in a Cardiff hotel. The American singer was on a UK tour and had shown no signs of illness.

2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

Births

1649 – Elihu Yale (Yale University), 1769 – Thomas Hardy, 1827 – Joseph Lister (namesake of Listerine), 1856 – Booker T. Washington, 1858 – Washington Atlee Burpee (seeds, not the exercise), 1883 – Walter Huston, 1900 – Spencer Tracy, 1901 – Melvyn Douglas (Hud, Inherit The Wind), 1908 – Bette Davis

, 1909 – Albert R. Broccoli (producer James Bond movies), 1916 – Gregory Peck, 1922 – Christopher Hewett ('Mr. Belvedere' on Mr. Belvedere), 1922 – Gale Storm, 1926 – Roger Corman, 1929 – Joe Meek♪ ♫, 1931 – Jack Clement♪ ♫, 1933 – Frank Gorshin ('The Riddler' on Batman), 1937 – Colin Powell, 1939 – Ronald White♪ ♫(The Miracles, discovered Stevie Wonder), 1940 – Tommy Cash♪ ♫(Johnny's younger brother), 1941 – Michael Moriarty (Law & Order, Pale Rider), 1943 – Max Gail ('Wojo' on Barney Miller), 1946 – Jane Asher, 1947 – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 1948 – Les Binks(Judas Priest), 1948 – Dave Holland(Judas Priest), 1949 – Judith Resnik, 1950 – Agnetha Fältskog♪ ♫(ABBA), 1951 – Dean Kamen (inventor, founded Segway), 1952 – John C. Dvorak, 1952 – Mitch Pileggi ('FBI Assistant Director Skinner' on The X-Files), 1956 – Diamond Dallas Page, 1960 – Larry McCray

, 1962 – Lana Clarkson (murdered by Phil Spector), 1966 – Mike McCready

(Pearl Jam), 1967 – Troy Gentry♪ ♫(Montgomery Gentry), 1968 – Paula Cole♪ ♫

Deaths

1964 – Douglas MacArthur, 1972 – Brian Donlevy, 1975 – Chiang Kai-shek, 1976 – Howard Hughes, 1982 – Abe Fortas, 1991 – John Tower (chairman of The Tower Commission), 1992 – $am Walton, 1994 – Kurt Cobain♪ ♫(Nirvana), 1997 – Allen Ginsberg, 1998 – Cozy Powell

(Jeff beck, Rainbow, Whitesnake, EL&P, Black Sabbath), 2000 – Lee Petty

('King Richard' Petty's father), 2002 – Layne Staley♪ ♫(Alice In Chains), 2005 – Saul Bellow, 2006 – Gene Pitney♪ ♫, 2007 – Mark St. John

(KISS), 2008 – Charlton Heston ("From my cold, dead hands..."

), 2012 – Jim Herr (Herr's snack foods), 2012 – Jim Marshall♪ ♫(Marshall amps), 2015 – Richard Dysart

04-05-2017, 10:50 AM	#697
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	April 5 Today is the tomorrow that we worried about yesterday. Events 1242 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 1536 – Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: The last Roman triumph. 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England. 1710 – The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom. 1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island. 1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States. 1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B. 1915 – Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World. 1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. 1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit. 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States. 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union. 1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. 1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. 1984 - Marvin Gaye's funeral took place at The Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles. 1994 - Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in Seattle. Cobain's body wasn't discovered until April 8, by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system, who initially believed that Cobain was asleep, until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A suicide note was found that said, "I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now". A high concentration of heroin and traces of Valium were found in Cobain's body. His death was officially ruled as suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. 1998 - British drummer Cozy Powell (Colin Flooks) was killed when his car smashed into crash barriers on the M4 motorway near Bristol, England. 1998 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world. The central span is 6,532 feet long, 1.2 miles, with the total length of the bridge being 12,831 ft, or 2.4 miles. 1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands. 2006 - Gene Pitney was found dead aged 65 in his bed in a Cardiff hotel. The American singer was on a UK tour and had shown no signs of illness. 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. Births 1649 – Elihu Yale (Yale University), 1769 – Thomas Hardy, 1827 – Joseph Lister (namesake of Listerine), 1856 – Booker T. Washington, 1858 – Washington Atlee Burpee (seeds, not the exercise), 1883 – Walter Huston, 1900 – Spencer Tracy, 1901 – Melvyn Douglas (Hud, Inherit The Wind), 1908 – Bette Davis, 1909 – Albert R. Broccoli (producer James Bond movies), 1916 – Gregory Peck, 1922 – Christopher Hewett ('Mr. Belvedere' on Mr. Belvedere), 1922 – Gale Storm, 1926 – Roger Corman, 1929 – Joe Meek♪ ♫, 1931 – Jack Clement♪ ♫, 1933 – Frank Gorshin ('The Riddler' on Batman), 1937 – Colin Powell, 1939 – Ronald White♪ ♫(The Miracles, discovered Stevie Wonder), 1940 – Tommy Cash♪ ♫(Johnny's younger brother), 1941 – Michael Moriarty (Law & Order, Pale Rider), 1943 – Max Gail ('Wojo' on Barney Miller), 1946 – Jane Asher, 1947 – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 1948 – Les Binks(Judas Priest), 1948 – Dave Holland(Judas Priest), 1949 – Judith Resnik, 1950 – Agnetha Fältskog♪ ♫(ABBA), 1951 – Dean Kamen (inventor, founded Segway), 1952 – John C. Dvorak, 1952 – Mitch Pileggi ('FBI Assistant Director Skinner' on The X-Files), 1956 – Diamond Dallas Page, 1960 – Larry McCray, 1962 – Lana Clarkson (murdered by Phil Spector), 1966 – Mike McCready(Pearl Jam), 1967 – Troy Gentry♪ ♫(Montgomery Gentry), 1968 – Paula Cole♪ ♫ Deaths 1964 – Douglas MacArthur, 1972 – Brian Donlevy, 1975 – Chiang Kai-shek, 1976 – Howard Hughes, 1982 – Abe Fortas, 1991 – John Tower (chairman of The Tower Commission), 1992 – $am Walton, 1994 – Kurt Cobain♪ ♫(Nirvana), 1997 – Allen Ginsberg, 1998 – Cozy Powell(Jeff beck, Rainbow, Whitesnake, EL&P, Black Sabbath), 2000 – Lee Petty('King Richard' Petty's father), 2002 – Layne Staley♪ ♫(Alice In Chains), 2005 – Saul Bellow, 2006 – Gene Pitney♪ ♫, 2007 – Mark St. John(KISS), 2008 – Charlton Heston ("From my cold, dead hands..."), 2012 – Jim Herr (Herr's snack foods), 2012 – Jim Marshall♪ ♫(Marshall amps), 2015 – Richard Dysart __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. 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