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1531Apr 5Richard Roose was boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop.
1649Apr 5John Winthrop (61), 1st governor of the colony at Mass. Bay, died.
1792Apr 5George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1843Apr 5Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong a British crown colony.
1865Apr 5As the Confederate army approached Appomattox, it skirmished with Union army at Amelia Springs and Paine’s Cross Road, Va.
1887Apr 5In Tuscumbia, Ala., teacher Anne Sullivan taught her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller, the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet.
1889Apr 5Start of Sherlock Holmes’ “Adventure of Copper Beeches.”
1908Apr 5Herbert von Karajan, Nazi, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic), was born in Austria.
1916Apr 5Gregory Peck, film actor (To Kill a Mockingbird), was born in La Jolla, Calif.
1923Apr 5Michael V. Gazzo, actor (Cookie, Fear City), was born in Hillside, NJ.
1926Apr 5Roger Corman, producer, director (Little Shop of Horrors), was born in Detroit.
1928Apr 5David Farquhar Andress, composer, was born.
1936Apr 5Tupelo, Mississippi, was virtually annihilated by a tornado and 216 died.
1938Apr 5Anti-Jewish riots broke out in Dabrowa, Poland.
1939Apr 5Membership in Hitler Youth became obligatory.
1941Apr 5German commandos secured docks along the Danube River in preparation for Germany’s invasion of the Balkans.
1955Apr 5Richard J. Daley was elected mayor of Chicago. He served 6 terms until his death in 1976.
1965Apr 5In the 37th Academy Awards “My Fair Lady,” Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews won.
1971Apr 5In Sicily, Italy, Mount Etna began a series of eruptions.
1976Apr 5Tom Stoppard’s “Dirty Linen,” premiered in London.
1980Apr 5Eleven Puerto Rican FALN members were arrested for attempting to rob an armored truck at Northwestern University; three were linked to the raid on the Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters. Several of those arrested were granted clemency in 1999.
1981Apr 5It was reported that Yugoslav authorities appeared to be sending extra militia units to the southern province of Kosovo after nationalist demonstrations in which 35 people were injured and scores arrested.
   
1982Apr 5Abe Fortas (b.1910), former Supreme court justice (1965-1969), died. He had resigned on May 14, 1969, under pressure for the acceptance of an allegedly illegal payment from a former business associate.
1984Apr 5Arthur Travers (“Bomber”) Harris (b.1892), marshal of British RAF, died.
1988Apr 5Gov. Michael S. Dukakis won a solid victory in Wisconsin’s Democratic presidential primary while, on the Republican side, Vice President George Bush overwhelmed his opposition.
1989Apr 5Joseph Hazelwood, former captain of the Exxon Valdez supertanker that leaked nearly 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, surrendered to authorities in New York.
   
1991Apr 5The US government reported the nation’s jobless rate surged to six-point-eight percent in March.
1992Apr 5In Washington, D.C., a crowd estimated by authorities at half a million marched in support of abortion rights.
1993Apr 5North Carolina defeated Michigan 77-71 to win its first NCAA basketball championship in 11 years.
1994Apr 5“Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect” opened at the John Golden Theater in NYC for 347 performances.
1997Apr 5Regional police reported the arrest of 7 men in Novosibirsk, Russia, who officials said planned to smuggle 11 pounds (5.2kg) of enriched uranium to Pakistan or China. The uranium was reportedly stolen from a plant in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
1998Apr 5In Leeds, England, environment chiefs from the world’s top eight industrialized nations announced plans to curb the smuggling of hazardous waste, endangered species and substances that damage the ozone layer.
1999Apr 5The US Supreme Court ruled that police can search the belongings of car passengers while seeking evidence against the driver.
2000Apr 5Ending a two-year investigation, a US independent counsel cleared Labor Secretary Alexis Herman of allegations that she’d solicited $250,000 in illegal campaign contributions.
2001Apr 5Wang Zhizhi of China, 7 feet and 1 inch tall, made his NBA debut for the Dallas Mavericks. Wang Zhizhi became the first Chinese player to play in the NBA when he took the court for Dallas against Atlanta. He scored six points and grabbed three rebounds as the Mavericks beat the Hawks 108-to-94.
2002Apr 5US mediator Anthony Zinni met with Yasser Arafat in Ramallah as Israeli forces continued their offensive. At least 35 Palestinians were killed on the bloodiest day of fighting since the beginning of Israel’s week-old military offensive.
2003Apr 5In the 18th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom US 3rd Infantry troops entered Baghdad for the first time. Coalition troops took several objectives surrounding the capital in the north and northwest. US warplanes hit Iraqi positions near the commercial center of Mosul. Up to 3,000 Iraqi fighters were killed as American armored vehicles moved into Baghdad.
2004Apr 5Univ. of Connecticut won the basketball NCAA finals over Georgia Tech 82-73.
2005Apr 5The US State Dept. toughened passport rules and announced that Americans returning from Canada, Mexico and elsewhere would be required to show their passports in a program to be fully phased in by Dec 31, 2007.
2006Apr 5Seattle customs authorities arrested 18 men and 4 women who had arrived from China in a 40-foot cargo container.
2007Apr 5The US pressed Ethiopia for details on detainees from 19 nations taken to secret prisons there and interrogated by CIA and FBI agents.
2008Apr 5Skybus Airlines, a low-cost carrier based in Columbus, Ohio, shut down and filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest of the nation’s airlines to fall because of rising fuel costs and a slowing economy.
2009Apr 5State media said China has reopened Tibet to foreign tourists almost two months after imposing a ban ahead of politically sensitive anniversaries.
2010Apr 5The Discovery space shuttle launched with 7 astronauts, including 3 women, for a rendezvous with the int’l. space station.
2011Apr 5A US astronaut and 2 Russian cosmonauts blasted off for the Int’l. Space Station from Russia’s cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2012Apr 5Pres. Obama signed the “Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups” aka Jobs Act. The Republican crafted bill to loosen securities regulations was passed by Congress on March 27.
2013Apr 5A US 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 and criticized the Obama administration for interfering with the process for political purposes.
2014Apr 5Atlanta’s Roman Catholic Archbishop Wilton Gregory, in an effort to appease angry parishioners, said that he will sell a $2.2 million mansion just three months after he moved in.
   
 Source: Timelines of History 

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