Today in History - April 5
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828 Apr 5,
Nicephorus (~77), patriarch of Constantinople (806-815), died.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1242 Apr 5, Russian troops
repelled an invasion attempt by Teutonic Knights. Alexander Nevsky of
Novgorod defeated Teutonic Knights
(HN, 4/5/99)(MC, 4/5/02)
1531 Apr 5, Richard Roose was
boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1585 Apr 5, Clemens Crabbeels
became bishop of Hertogenbosch.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1588 Apr 5, Thomas Hobbes, English
philosopher (Leviathan) , was born.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1603 Apr 5, New English king James
I departed Edinburgh for London.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1614 Apr 5, American Indian
princess Pocahontas (d.1617) married English Jamestown colonist John
Rolfe in Virginia. Having converted to Christianity, she went by the
name Lady Rebecca. Their marriage brought a temporary peace between the
English settlers and the Algonquians.
(HN, 5/5/97)(SFEC, 10/15/00, p.T12)(AP, 4/5/08)
1614 Apr 5, 2nd parliament of King
James I began session (no enactments).
(MC, 4/5/02)
1621 Apr 5, The Mayflower sailed
from Plymouth, Mass., on a return trip to England.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1626 Apr 5, Jan van Kessel
(d.1679), Flemish painter, was born. He was the grandson of Jan
Breughel. He is known for his small paintings on copper and wood. His
“Study of Butterflies, Spiders, Lizards, a Beetle, an Ant, a
Grasshopper and Other Insects” sold at a Sotheby’s auction in 2000 for
$1,655,750.
(WSJ, 6/9/00, p.W10)(MC, 4/5/02)
1648 Apr 5, Spanish troops and
feudal barons struck down people's uprising in Naples.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1649 Apr 5, Elihu Yale (1721), the
English philanthropist for whom Yale University is named, was born.
(WUD, 1994, p.1652)(AP, 4/5/99)
1649 Apr 5, John Winthrop (61),
1st governor of the colony at Mass. Bay, died. [see Mar 26]
(MC, 4/5/02)
1673 Apr 5, Francois Caron (~72),
admiral, governor (Formosa), drowned.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1698 Apr 5, Georg Gottfried
Wagner, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1722 Apr 5, Dutch explorer Jacob
Roggeveen discovered Easter Island, a Polynesian Island 1400 miles from
the coast of South America. They noted that the island was treeless and
wondered how massive statues were erected. Much of the population was
later wiped out and the island became a possession of Chile. An
indigenous script called rongorongo survived but by 2002 was still not
deciphered. In 2005 Steven Roger Fischer authored “Island at the End of
the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island.”
{Polynesia, Chile, Netherlands, Explorer}
1725 Apr 5, Giacomo Casanova,
Italian writer, philanderer, adventurer, was born. [see Apr 2]
(MC, 4/5/02)
1732 Apr 5, Jean Honore Fragonard
(d.1806), France, painter, was born. He painted “The Shady Grove.”
Hubert Robert was a painter friend and the painting "La Jardinaire" was
painted by one or the other.
(WUD, 1994, p.562)(WSJ, 2/19/99, p.W12)(AAP,
1964)(MC, 4/5/02)
1753 Apr 5, British Museum formed.
It opened in 1759.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R53)(MC, 4/5/02)
1765 Apr 5, Edward Young (81),
English poet (Love of Fame), died.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1768 Apr 5, 1st US Chamber of
Commerce formed in NYC.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1784 Apr 5, Louis [Ludwig] Spohr,
German violin virtuoso, composer (Faust), was born.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1788 Apr 5, Franz Pforr, German
painter, cartoonist (Lukasbund), was born.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1792 Apr 5, George Washington cast
the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for
apportioning representatives among the states.
(AP, 5/5/97)(HN, 5/5/97)
1794 Apr 5, Georges-Jacques Danton
(34), French revolutionary leader, was guillotined along with Marie
Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author, politician, and Camille
Desmoullins, popular journalist.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1803 Apr 5, 1st performance of
Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1806 Apr 5, Isaac Quintard
patented apple cider.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1811 Apr 5, Robert Raikes, founder
of Sunday Schools, died.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1815 Apr 5, Mount Tambora on
Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, in the Java Sea began erupting. [see Apr 10]
(NOHY, 3/90,
p.41)(www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9071099)
1827 Apr 5, Joseph Lister
(d.1912), English physician, was born. He founded the idea of using
antiseptics during surgery.
(WUD, 1994, p.836)(HN, 4/5/99)
1830 Apr 5, Alexander Muir, poet
(Maple Leaf Forever), was born in Lesmahagow, Scotland.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1837 Apr 5, Algernon Charles
Swinburne (d.1909), English poet (Atalanta in Calydon), was born.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1839 Apr 5, Robert Smalls, black
congressman from South Carolina, 1875-87, was born.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1843 Apr 5, Queen Victoria
proclaimed Hong Kong a British crown colony.
(HN, 4/5/99)
1856 Apr 5, Booker T. Washington,
Black American educator, was born in Franklin County, Va. The former
slave later founded the Tuskegee Institute. Booker Taliaferro
Washington later became the 1st black on US stamp. His autobiography
"Up From Slavery" was listed in 1999 as the 3rd best work of
non-fiction in the English language in the 20th century by the Modern
Library.
(AP, 5/5/97)(HN, 4/5/99)(SFC, 4/29/99, p.C5)
1858 Apr 5, Washington Atlee
Burpee, founded the world's largest mail-order seed company, was born.
(HN, 4/5/01)
1861 Apr 5, Gideon Wells, the
Secretary of the Navy, issued official orders for the relief of Fort
Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S.C.
(HN, 4/5/99)
1861 Apr 5, Federals abandoned Ft.
Quitman, Tx.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1862 Apr 5, Siege of Yorktown,
VA., continued.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1865 Apr 5, As the Confederate
army approached Appomattox, it skirmished with Union army at Amelia
Springs and Paine's Cross Road, Va.
(HN, 4/5/99)(MC, 4/5/02)
1874 Apr 5, Johann Strauss, Jr.'s
Opera "Die Fledermaus" was produced in Vienna.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1887 Apr 5, In Tuscumbia, Ala.,
teacher Anne Sullivan taught her blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller,
the word "water" as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1887 Apr 5, British historian Lord
Acton wrote, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts
absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
(AP, 5/5/08)
1889 Apr 5, Start of Sherlock
Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches."
(MC, 4/5/02)
1894 Apr 5, 11 strikers were
killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1894 Apr 5, Start of Sherlock
Holmes' "Adventure of Empty House."
(MC, 4/5/02)
1895 Apr 5, Start of Sherlock
Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students."
(MC, 4/5/02)
1895 Apr 5, Playwright Oscar Wilde
lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who
had accused the writer of homosexual practices.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1900 Apr 5, Spencer Tracy
(d.1967), film actor (Adam's Rib, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), was
born.
(SFEC, 4/2/00, DB p.56,58)(HN, 4/5/01)
1900 Apr 5, An assassination
attempt of Prince of Wales in Brussels failed.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1901 Apr 5, Chester Bowles,
ambassador, writer (Conscience of a Liberal), was born in Mass.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1901 Apr 5, Melvyn Douglas,
[Hesselberg], actor (Hud, Ghost Story), was born in Macon, Ga.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1902 Apr 5, Maurice Ravel's
"Pavane pour une infante defunte," premiered in Paris.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1908 Apr 5, Bette Davis (d.1989),
film actress (Jezebel, All About Eve), was born. "Love is not enough.
It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete
structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
(AP, 7/15/99)(HN, 4/5/01)
1908 Apr 5, Herbert von Karajan,
Nazi, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic), was born in Austria.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1908 Apr 5, George Schick,
conductor (Chicago Symphony), was born in Prague, Czech.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1908 Apr 5, Japanese Army reached
the Yalu River as the Russians retreated.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1915 Apr 5, Jack Johnson
(1878-1946), African-American heavyweight champion boxer since 1908,
lost the heavyweight championship in Cuba to Jess Willard in the 26th
round.
(SFC, 1/17/05,
p.D6)(www.hickoksports.com/biograph/johnsonjack.shtml)
1915 Apr 5, Black American
educator Booker T. Washington (b.1856) died. His autobiography "Up From
Slavery" was listed in 1999 as the 3rd best work of non-fiction in the
English language in the 20th century by the Modern Library.
(AP, 4/5/97)(WUD, 1994, p.1611)(SFC, 4/29/99, p.C5)
1916 Apr 5, Gregory Peck, film
actor (To Kill a Mockingbird), was born in La Jolla, Calif.
(HN, 4/5/01)(MC, 4/5/02)
1917 Apr 5, Robert Bloch, sci-fi
author (Hugo, Psycho), was born.
(HN, 4/5/01)(MC, 4/5/02)
1919 Apr 5, Eamon de Valera became
Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland (Dail Eireann).
(HN, 5/5/97)(MC, 4/5/02)
1919 Apr 5, Polish Army executed
35 young Jews.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1920 Apr 5, Arthur Hailey
(d.2004), author, was born in Luton, England. His later novels included
“Hotel” and ”Airport.”
(HN, 4/5/01)(SFC, 11/26/04, p.B3)
1920 Apr 5, Japanese forces landed
in Vladivostok.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1923 Apr 5, Michael V. Gazzo,
actor (Cookie, Fear City), was born in Hillside, NJ.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1923 Apr 5, Firestone Co. put
their inflatable tires into production.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1923 Apr 5, George Edward Stanhope
Molyneux Herbert (56), England’s 5th Earl of Lord Carnarvon, died in
Egypt from an infected mosquito bite. He financed the excavation of the
Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt's Valley of
the Kings.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert,_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon)
1923 Apr 5, Nguyen Van Thieu,
president of South Vietnam (1965-75), selected this date as his birth
date on the grounds that it was luckier than his Nov 1924 birthday.
(HN, 5/5/97)(SFC, 10/1/01, p.B2)(MC, 4/5/02)
1925 Apr 5, A few people gathered
in Robinson’s drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee, agree that the Butler
Bill, opposing the teaching of evolution, might provide a grand
opportunity for profit if they can arrange for the trial to happen in
their town.
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.74-76)
1926 Apr 5, Roger Corman,
producer, director (Little Shop of Horrors), was born in Detroit.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1927 Apr 5, Johnny Weissmuller set
records in 100 and 200 m. free style.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1928 Apr 5, David Farquhar
Andress, composer, was born.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1930 Apr 5, Mahatma Ghandi defied
British law by making salt in India instead of buying it from the
British.
(HN, 4/5/99)
1932 Apr 5, A Dutch textile strike
was broken by trade unions.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1934 Apr 5, Hank Aaron, baseball
great, was born.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1936 Apr 5, Tupelo, Mississippi,
was virtually annihilated by a tornado and 216 died.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1937 Apr 5, Colin Powell, U.S.
Army general, was born in Bronx, New York. He later became the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Persian Gulf War and first
African American to serve in the position. In 2000 Pres.-elect Bush
appointed him to be Sec. of State.
(HFA, '96, p.28)(HN, 4/5/99)(SSFC, 12/17/00, p.A14)
1938 Apr 5, Anti-Jewish riots
broke out in Dabrowa, Poland.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1939 Apr 5, Membership in Hitler
Youth became obligatory.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1941 Apr 5, German commandos
secured docks along the Danube River in preparation for Germany's
invasion of the Balkans.
(HN, 4/5/99)
1943 Apr 5, The British 8th Army
attacked the next blocking position of the retreating Axis forces at
Wadi Akarit.
(HN, 4/5/99)
1944 Apr 5, 140 Lancasters bombed
airplane manufacturer in Toulouse.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1946 Apr 5, Vincent Millie Youmans
(47), US composer (Tea For Two), died.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1948 Apr 5, WGN TV channel 9 in
Chicago, IL., began broadcasting.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1949 Apr 5, The 60 year old St.
Anthony's Hospital burned and killed 77 in Effingham, Ill.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1951 Apr 5, Husband and wife
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of New York City were sentenced to death by
Judge Irving R. Kaufman on charges of selling US atomic secrets to the
Soviet Union, enabling the Soviets to detonate their first nuclear
weapon in 1949. Although the couple consistently claimed to be
innocent, a jury of 11 men and one woman found them guilty on March 30
on the evidence provided by key government witness David Greenglass,
Ethel Rosenberg's brother. Co-defendant Morton Sobell was sentenced to
30 years in prison. He was released in 1969. The Rosenbergs were
electrocuted on June 19, 1953, leaving behind two young sons.
(CL, 4/5/96)(AP, 5/5/97)(HN, 5/5/97)(HNPD,
4/5/99)(AP, 4/5/04)
1955 Apr 5, Richard J. Daley was
elected mayor of Chicago. He served 6 terms until his death in 1976.
(www.chipublib.org/004chicago/mayors/daley1.html)(Econ, 3/18/06, Survey
p.14)
1955 Apr 5, Winston Churchill
resigned as British prime minister. He was replaced by Anthony Eden who
served to 1957. Eden's biography by Sir Robert Rhodes James (d.1999 at
66) was published in 1987.
(HN, 5/5/97)(SFC, 5/25/99, p.Be)
1962 Apr 5, Herb Gardner's
"Thousand Clowns," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 5, NASA civilian pilot
Neil A. Armstrong took the X-15 to 54,600 m.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 5, St. Bernard Tunnel was
finished and Swiss and Italians workers shook hands.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1964 Apr 5, Army Gen. Douglas
MacArthur (b.1880) died in Washington, D.C. In 1978 William Manchester
authored: "American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur." In 2006 Robert Harvey
authored “American Shogun: A Tale of Two Cultures,” which includes a
biography of Japan’s Emp. Hirohito in parallel with
MacArthur.
(AP, 4/5/97)(BS, 5/3/98, p.13E)(WSJ, 8/3/06, p.D5)
1964 Apr 5, 1st driverless trains
ran on the London Underground.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1965 Apr 5, In the 37th Academy
Awards "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews won.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1965 Apr 5, Lava Lamp Day was
celebrated.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1965 Apr 5, The second
Indo-Pakistani conflict began when fighting broke out in the Rann of
Kachchh, a sparsely inhabited region along the West Pakistan-India
border.
(Encyclopaedia.com, 2002)
1968 Apr 5, Riots erupted across
the US following the King assassination.
(CL, 4/5/96)
1968 Apr 5, In Vietnam the siege
of Khe Sahn ended after 76 days.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1970 Apr 5, Six Nepalese Sherpas
died in an avalanche during a Japanese skiing expedition on Everest.
(SFC, 5/15/96,
A-10)(www.everestsummiteersassociation.org/listofdeadoneverst.htm)
1971 Apr 5, In Sicily, Italy,
Mount Etna began a series of eruptions.
(http://boris.vulcanoetna.com/ETNA_erupt2.html)
1971 Apr 5-1971 Apr 23, In Ceylon
(later Sri Lanka) the People’s Liberation Front attempted a nationwide
coup, but the army and Mr. Bandaranaike’s government regained control.
(WUD, 1994, p. 1688)
1972 Apr 5, The Harrisburg 7 trial
ended in mistrial after 11 weeks. Philip Berrigan & Sister
Elizabeth McAllister were declared guilty, but only of smuggling
letters in & out of prison.
(www.well.com/~mareev/TIMELINE/1971-1972.html)
1973 Apr 5, Pioneer 11, built to
be a backup if Pioneer 10 failed, was launched from Kennedy Space
Center in Florida, on an Atlas-Centaur rocket, on a trajectory similar
to Pioneer 10. After Pioneer 10 completed the first ever successful
encounter with Jupiter, Pioneer 11 was re-targeted, even while it was
flying outward, for an eventual encounter with Saturn after its visit
to Jupiter in December, 1973.
(http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/ThePioneers.html)
1974 Apr 5, The World Trade Center
(WTC), the tallest building in the world at 110 stories, opened in NYC.
(HN, 5/5/97)
1975 Apr 5, Chiang Kai-shek (87),
Chinese statesman and president of the Republic (1943-1950) and
President of the Republic of China, Taiwan (1950-1975), died at age 87.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong Mayling) moved to New York following her
husband's death. In 1982 Sterling Seagrave authored "The Soong Dynasty."
(WUD, 1994, p.254)(AP, 5/5/97)(SFC, 1/27/00, p.E1,5)
1976 Apr 5, Tom Stoppard's "Dirty
Linen," premiered in London.
(www.donshewey.com/theater_reviews/dirty_linen.html)
1976 Apr 5, Reclusive billionaire
Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 72. In 1993 Charles Higham
authored “Howard Hughes: The Secret Life.” In 1996 Peter Harry Brown
and Pat H. Broeske authored "Howard Hughes: The Untold Story." Hughes
had hired a coterie of Mormons to take care of his confidential
business. These included Frank William Gay (1920-2007), who led Hughes’
Summa Corp. from 1970-1978.
(AP, 4/5/97)(SFC, 10/21/00, p.A24)(WSJ, 5/26/07,
p.A6)
1976 Apr 5, James Callaghan became
PM of England. He served until May 4, 1979.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Callaghan)
1979 Apr 5, The play “Faith
Healer” by Brian Friel opened on Broadway with James Mason as Frank. It
closed after 3 weeks.
(Econ, 2/25/06,
p.88)(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3933)
1980 Apr 5, Eleven 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.
(WSJ, 9/14/99, p.A22)
1980 Apr 5, Sister Margaret Ann
Pahl (71) was stabbed about 30 times and strangled to death. Her body
was found in the chapel of Mercy Hospital, Toledo, Ohio. In 2004 Rev.
Gerald Robinson (63) was arrested for the murder. In 2006 Robinson was
convicted of murder.
(SFC, 4/24/04, p.A2)(SFC, 5/12/06, p.A3)
1981 Apr 5, It 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.
(http://tinyurl.com/2n6atk)
1982 Apr 5, Abe 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.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas)
1983 Apr 5, France threw out 47
Soviet diplomats accusing them of espionage..
(http://tinyurl.com/2n2m92)
1984 Apr 5, Arthur Travers
("Bomber") Harris (b.1892), marshal of British RAF, died.
(www.ihr.org/jhr/v05/v05p431_Lutton.html)
1986 Apr 5, A Berlin nightclub was
bombed. US Sgt. Kenneth Ford (21) and Nermin Hannay (29) died at the
scene. Sgt. James Goins (25) died later in hospital. 230 people were
injured. Palestinian Yasser Shraydi (Chraidi) was suspected of playing
a lead role in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque. In 1996 he was
extradited from Lebanon to face charges in Germany. In 1996 Andrea
Hasler was arrested in Greece and extradited to Germany. Also a woman
named Verena Chanaa, suspected of planting the bomb, and her former
husband named Ali Chanaa were arrested in Berlin. In 1997 Musbah
Abulghasen Eter was arrested by Italian police in Rome in connection
with the bombing. In 2001 V. Chanaa was sentenced to 14 years, A.
Chanaa and Eter were sentenced to 12 years, and Chraidi was sentenced
to 14 years. Libya was implicated and in 2004 agreed to pay $35 million
in compensation.
(SFC, 5/234/96, p.A14)(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A12)(WSJ,
8/28/97, p.A1)(SFC, 8/28/97, p.C3)(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A18)(AP, 9/3/04)
1986 Apr 5, Manly Wade Wellman
(b.1903), sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman)
1987 Apr 5, Fox Broadcasting Co.
made its prime-time TV debut by airing the premiere episodes of
"Married ... With Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show" three times
each. In 2004 Daniel M. Kimmel authored “The Fourth Network.” Ron
Leavitt (1947-2008), writer and producer, co-created “Married… With
Children” with Michael Moye.
(AP, 4/5/02)(WSJ, 6/11/04, p.W4)(SFC, 2/13/08, p.B7)
1987 Apr 5, In New York state the
Schoharie Creek Bridge, a New York State Thruway bridge over the
Schoharie Creek near Fort Hunter, collapsed killing 10 people.
(SFC, 4/11/09,
p.D12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoharie_Creek_Bridge_collapse)
1988 Apr 5 Gov. 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.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1988 Apr 5 A 15-day hijacking
ordeal began as gunmen forced a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet to land in
Iran.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1988 Apr 5, Alf Kjellin, Swedish
actor, director (Juggler), died.
(www.tv.com/alf-kjellin/person/24487/summary.html)
1989 Apr 5, Joseph 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.
(AP, 4/5/99)
1989 Apr 5, The government of
Poland signed an agreement restoring the independent labor movement
Solidarity after a seven-year ban.
(AP, 4/5/99)
1990 Apr 5, It was announced that
President Bush and Soviet President Gorbachev would hold their first
full-scale summit in the United States.
(AP, 4/5/00)
1990 Apr 5, Paul Newman won a
court victory over Julius Gold to keep giving all profits from Newman
foods to charity.
(http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1990-4/1990-04-05-CBS-15.html)
1991 Apr 5, The US government
reported the nation’s jobless rate surged to six-point-eight percent in
March.
(AP, 4/5/01)
1991 Apr 5, The space shuttle
“Atlantis” blasted off on a mission that included the deploying of the
second of “NASA’s” Great Observatories. NASA launched the $670 million
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. It was directed to a suicide plunge in
2000.
(SFC, 3/24/00, p.A5)(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A6)(AP, 4/5/01)
1991 Apr 5, Former Texas Senator
John Tower, his daughter and 21 other people were killed in a commuter
plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.
(AP, 4/5/01)
1991 Apr 5, The UN adopted
Resolution 688, which condemned Sadam Hussein’s suppression of the
Kurds and demanded respect and political rights for all citizens. A
safe haven was established above Iraq’s 36th parallel.
(www.fas.org/news/un/iraq/sres/sres0688.htm)(SFC,
9/4/96, p.A7)
1992 Apr 5, In Washington, D.C., a
crowd estimated by authorities at half a million marched in support of
abortion rights.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1992 Apr 5, Wal-Mart founder Sam
Walton died in Little Rock, Ark., at age 74.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1992 Apr 5, A medical student
(Suada Dilberovic) became the first fatality of war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina as Serb nationalists began forcibly opposing the
republic's secession from Yugoslavia.
(AP, 4/5/97)
1992 Apr 5, Pres. Fujimori seized
dictatorial power by sending tanks to shut down Peru's Congress and
judiciary. Former president Alan Garcia fled Peru to avoid arrest by
the Fujimori regime. In 2008 Peru's Cabinet chief testified at the
trial of former President Alberto Fujimori that security forces
attempted to assassinate Garcia following the shut down of Congress.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D4)(AP, 1/18/08)
1993 Apr 5 North Carolina defeated
Michigan 77-71 to win its first NCAA basketball championship in 11
years.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1993 Apr 5 The European Community
called for more and tighter sanctions on Serbia to try to force
Belgrade's allies in Bosnia to accept a peace plan.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1994 Apr 5, "Jackie Mason
Politically Incorrect" opened at the John Golden Theater in NYC for 347
performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0495)
1994 Apr 5, President Clinton
presided over a 90-minute town hall meeting in Charlotte, N.C., in
which he called himself the victim of "false charges" in connection
with the Whitewater controversy.
(AP, 4/5/99)
1994 Apr 5, Kurt Cobain (b.1967),
singer-musician for the grunge band Nirvana, committed suicide in
Seattle. [see Apr 8]
(NW, 10/28/02,
p.68)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_)
1994 Apr 5, Andre Victor
Tchelistcheff (b.1901), Russian-born winemaker, died in California. He
developed frost-prevention techniques and helped curb vine disease in
Napa Valley. Beside managing Beaulieu Vineyards in Napa for 35 years,
Tchelistcheff operated a private wine laboratory in St. Helena for 15
years. He also assembled a fabled library of wine literature.
(http://tinyurl.com/8kqmd)
1995 Apr 5, The House of
Representatives passed, 246-188, a tax-cut bill, the final major item
in the Republicans' "Contract with America."
(AP, 4/5/00)
1996 Apr 5, Accompanied by six
children who survived the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton
bowed his head in silent prayer at the site where 168 people were
killed almost a year earlier.
(AP, 4/5/01)
1996 Apr 5, Francis Wood,
administrator of the China dept. of the British Library questioned the
authenticity of Marco Polo’s travels in a study titled: “Did Marco Polo
Go to China?”
(SFC, 4/6/96, p.D-2)
1996 Apr 5, Heavy fighting in
Mogadishu, Somalia left 75 people dead, after peace talks broke down
between clan leaders Mohamed Farak Aidid and his former backer, Osman
Hassan Ali Ato.
(SFC, 4/6/96, p.D-2)
1997 Apr 5 Allen Ginsberg
(b.1926), the counterculture guru who shattered conventions as poet
laureate of the Beat Generation, died in New York City at age 70. His
last book of poems "Death and Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997" was edited by
Bob Rosenthal, Peter Hale and Bill Morgan following his death. In 2000
Bill Morgan edited "Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995." In
2001 David Carter edited "Allen Ginsberg: Spontaneous Mind, The
Selected Interviews, 1958-1996." In 2006 Bill Morgan authored “I
Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg.”
(SFEC, 4/6/97, p.A11)(AP, 5/5/97)(WSJ, 4/2/99,
p.W6)(SFEC, 5/9/99, BR p.3)(SFEC, 3/5/00, DB p.4)(SSFC, 4/8/01, BR
p.2)(SSFC, 11/5/06, p.M1)
1997 Apr 5, Regional 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.
(AP, 11/29/07)(http://tinyurl.com/3cydhn)
1997 Apr 5, From Serbia it was
reported the Pres. Milosevic might step down from Serbian presidency at
the end of his 2 terms and try to assume the ceremonial post of
president of all of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro).
(SFC, 4/5/97, p.A8)
1997 Apr 5, In Zaire the rebels
agreed to allow a UN airlift of some 80,000 Rwandan refugees back to
their homeland.
(SFEC, 4/6/97, p.A17)
1998 Apr 5, In 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.
(AP, 4/5/99)
1998 Apr 5, In Indonesia an
outbreak of dengue fever killed 125 people since the beginning of the
year in South Sumatra.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.T13)
1998 Apr 5, Iran and Iraq
exchanged 1,589 prisoners of war, bringing the number to over 4,000. Up
to 30,000 prisoners were thought to be held by both sides.
(SFC, 4/6/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 5, In Japan the $3.8
billion, 12,906 foot Akashi Kaikyo Bridge linking the islands of
Shikoku and Honshu was opened. It was built to withstand an 8.5
earthquake and took ten years to build.
(SFEC, 4/6/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 5 South Korea accepted to
reopen talks with North Korea on economic aid and other issues. North
Korea proposed yesterday that officials at the deputy minister level
meet in Beijing for talks.
(SFEC, 4/6/98, p.A12)
1999 Apr 5, The US Supreme Court
ruled that police can search the belongings of car passengers while
seeking evidence against the driver.
(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, In Laramie, Wyo.,
Russell Henderson pleaded guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in the
death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student.
(AP, 4/5/00)
1999 Apr 5, At Newport News, Va.,
members of local 8888 of the United Steelworkers went on strike. The
shipyard offered a $2.49 per hour raise over 3 years as opposed to the
union demand for $3.95.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.D1)
1999 Apr 5, In Kansas City, Mo., 5
decomposing bodies were found in the home of Gary Beach (56) and his
stepson. Beach was arrested the next day. The 5 dead included his
stepson and were thought to have been dead from 2-7 days.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A3)(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A2)
1999 Apr 5, NATO attacks struck
Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad in the most ferocious attacks for a 13th
straight day. The first Kosovo refugees were flown out to Norway and
Turkey and the US said it would take some 20,000 to Guantanamo Ari Base
in Cuba. Pres. Clinton asked for public donations for the relief effort.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A1,8)(AP, 4/5/00)
1999 Apr 5, In Indonesia 2 people
were killed during clashes in Liquisa, East Timor. Jose Alexandre
Gusmao, under house arrest in Jakarta, called for guerrilla attacks
against Indonesian forces. In Maluku province soldiers found some 20
burned bodies in the village of Larat on Kai Besar Island.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Apr 5, In Macedonia ethnic
Albanians were blocked at the border due to extremely slow processing
by government officials. Political stability was feared and the UN was
denied a mandate to process the refugees.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Apr 5, Iraq claimed that US
and British warplanes bombed a control station that delivered oil
approved for export on a UN humanitarian program.
(SFC, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, Libya handed over to
UN officials 2 men accused in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103.
They were then flown to the Hague to be tried under Scottish law. UN
Sec. Gen'l. Kofi Annan immediately suspended economic sanctions on
Libya.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A1)(WSJ, 4/6/99,
p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, Serbia said a dozen
civilians were killed by NATO bombs at Aleksinac.
(WSJ, 4/7/99, p.A1)
1999 Apr 5, In Turkey a suicide
bomber killed himself and a teenage girl in an apparent attempt on the
life of Gov. Suleyman Kamci.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.A10)
2000 Apr 5, Ending 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.
(AP, 4/5/01)
2000 Apr 5, A 261-page report by
the 12-person National Research Council said “it was not aware of any
evidence suggesting foods on the market today are unsafe to eat as a
result of genetic modification.”
(SFC, 4/6/00, p.A3)
2000 Apr 5, The Netscape 6 browser
was introduced.
(WSJ, 4/5/00, p.B1)
2000 Apr 5, The WHO and UNAIDS
recommended that the drug trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (or
cotrimoxazole) be used to fight AIDS in Africa. The antibiotic, also
known as Bactrim, would help victims live longer.
(SFC, 4/6/00, p.A10)
2000 Apr 5, In Brazil Jose Rainha
Jr., leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement, was acquitted of
the 1989 killing of farm owner Jose Machado Neto.
(SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)
2000 Apr 5, Yoshiro Mori took over
as Japan’s new prime minister, succeeding Keizo Obuchi, who’d been
felled by a stroke.
(AP, 4/5/01)
2000 Apr 5, In Mexico Rodolfo
Montiel, an imprisoned peasant leader, was awarded the $125,000 Goldman
Environmental Prize for his efforts to protect the forests of the
Sierra Madre. 6 other winners were scheduled for Apr 17.
(SFC, 4/6/00, p.A16)
2000 Apr 5, In Pakistan Nawaz
Sharif was sentenced to life in prison for hijacking and terrorism due
to his Oct 12 refusal to let a passenger plane land with 198 people
aboard.
(SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)
2000 Apr 5, In Peru Alejandro
Toledo (54), the “Cholo,” rose dramatically in the polls as opposition
candidate to Pres. Alberto Fujimori, the “Chino.” Toledo represented
the Peru Possible Party.
(SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)
2000 Apr 5, In Russia the FSB
arrested a US businessman for suspected espionage after he allegedly
bought information on defense technology from Russian scientists.
Edmond Pope was later identified as a retired navy captain working for
Pennsylvania State Univ. in applied research. The key witness against
Pope recanted his testimony in Nov.
(SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)(USAT, 4/7/00, p.6A)(SFC,
11/11/00, p.A14)
2001 Apr 5, Wang 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.
(SSFC, 4/15/01, p.A17)(AP, 4/5/02)
2001 Apr 5, The United States and
China intensified negotiations for the release of an American spy
plane's crew; President Bush, in a conciliatory gesture, expressed
regret over the plane's Apr 1 in-flight collision with a Chinese
fighter that triggered the tense standoff.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.A1)(AP, 4/5/02)
2001 Apr 5, The DJIA rose 402 to
9,918, its 2nd largest point gain ever. The Nasdaq rose 146 to 1,785,
its 3rd biggest % increase.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.A1)
2001 April 5, Michelle Curran (16)
was reported missing in Las Vegas. She was kidnapped as she hitchhiked,
sexually abused for three weeks, and then shot in the head. In 2006
Michael Thorton (50) and Janeen Snyder (26) were both found guilty of
murder, rape with a foreign object, and burglary. The pair were
sentenced to death.
(http://tinyurl.com/fww93)(SFC, 9/9/06, p.B2)
2001 cApr 5, Presidents Robert
Kocharian of Armenia and Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan met in Key West,
Fla., for negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh. A new $2.7 billion oil
pipeline from Baku to Ceyhan, Turkey, was expected to pass just north
of the area. Halliburton Co., was a finalist in engineering bids for
the line and Vice President Chaney was the former chief executive of
Halliburton. National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice formerly served
on the Board of Directors for Chevron, a player in the pipeline bid.
(SFC, 4/4/01, p.A10)
2001 Apr 5, Dutch driver Perry
Wacker was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 14 years in
prison in the deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants who suffocated in his
truck in Dover, England.
(AP, 4/5/02)
2001 Apr 5, Iyad Hardan, head of
Sarai al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad, was killed in
the explosion of a booby trapped pay phone in the West Bank.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.A16)
2001 Apr 5, In Mexico Brig. Gen.
Ricardo Martinez was arrested with aides Capt. Pedro Maya and Lt.
Javier Quevedo on drug trafficking charges.
(SFC, 4/7/01, p.A14)
2001 Apr 5, In the Philippines
former Pres. Estrada was indicted for allegedly pocketing $82 million
in kickbacks and payoffs over his 2 ½ years in office.
(SFC, 4/6/01, p.D6)
2002 Apr 5, US 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.
(SFC, 4/6/02, p.A1)(AP, 4/5/03)
2002 Apr 5, A new US stamp that
featured the SF Bay Area was 1st displayed. It was part of the new
50-state “Greetings from America” series.
(SFC, 4/6/02, p.A14)
2002 Apr 5, The coffin of the
Queen Mother was carried through the heart of London on a gun carriage
as Britain honored the woman whose life spanned a tumultuous century of
upheaval and change.
(AP, 4/5/03)
2002 Apr 5, Iran’s Ayatollah
Khamenei urged Islamic oil-producing countries to suspend oil exports
for a month to countries supporting Israel.
(SFC, 4/6/02, p.A10)
2003 Apr 5, In 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.
(AP, 4/5/03)(AP, 4/6/03)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Apr 5, Ali Hassan al-Majid
(king of spades), Saddam Hussein’s 1st cousin and dubbed "Chemical Ali"
by opponents for ordering a 1988 poison gas attack that killed
thousands of Kurds, was killed by an airstrike on his house in Basra.
(AP, 4/7/03)(SFC, 4/26/03, A14)
2003 Apr 5, The Belgian Senate
approved a measure gutting a 1993 war crimes law.
(AP, 4/6/03)
2003 Apr 5, Croatian police have
arrested Ivica Rajic (45), a Bosnian Croat long sought by the UN war
crimes tribunal, for allegedly carrying out atrocities against Muslim
civilians during the Bosnian war.
(AP, 4/6/03)
2003 Apr 5, In East Timor Jose
Cardosa Fereira, senior militia leader, was found guilty of murder,
rape and torture of civilians in East Timor who supported the
territory's 1999 independence from Indonesia. He was sentenced to 12
years.
(AP, 4/5/03)
2003 Apr 5, A prison riot in
northern Honduras left 69 prisoners dead and dozens more injured at the
1,600-inmate El Porvenir prison outside of La Ceiba. Soldiers and
police searched for escaped inmates. Honduras' 26 prisons were built to
house 5,500 inmates but are crammed with 13,000 prisoners. In 2008 a
court sentenced 22 soldiers and police to a combined 740 years in
prison for the massacre. In 2008 a Honduran court sentenced Dimas
Antonio Benitez, a former prison official, to 1,051 years in jail for
the deaths in the prison massacre.
(AP, 4/6/03)(SFC, 4/7/03, p.A8)(AP, 6/4/08)(AP,
9/7/08)
2003 Apr 5, In Israel Brian Avery
(23), a peace activist from Albuquerque, NM, was wounded when Israeli
troops opened fire in Jenin.
(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.A8)
2003 Apr 5, In the southern
Philippines two bombings killed two people and wounded eight.
(AP, 4/5/03)
2003 Apr 5, Uganda Army troops
killed at least 30 LRA rebels in the northern Pader and Gulu districts,
days after a three-week cease-fire expired.
(AP, 4/8/03)
2004 Apr 5, Univ. of Connecticut
won the basketball NCAA finals over Georgia Tech 82-73.
(WSJ, 4/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 5, Pulitzer Prize winners
were announced. Edward P. Jones won the fiction award for "The Known
World." Steven Hahn won the history award for "A Nation Under Our Feet"
Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great
Migration." Anne Applebaum won the general non-fiction award for
"Gulag: A History."
(SFC, 4/6/04, p.A2)
2004 Apr 5, A US-Canadian task
force investigating the massive power blackout of Aug 14, 2003, called
for urgent approval of mandatory reliability rules to govern the
electric transmission industry.
(AP, 4/5/05)
2004 Apr 5, Leonard Reed (b.1907),
tap dancer extraordinary, died.
(Econ, 4/17/04, p.84)
2004 Apr 5, Rebel attacks across
Chechnya killed six Russian soldiers.
(AP, 4/6/04)
2004 Apr 5, China promised $122
million to Pres. Skerritt in return for revoking Dominica’s recognition
of Taiwan.
(Econ, 4/10/04, p.29)
2004 Apr 5, Six ethnic Croats
surrendered to the U.N. war crimes tribunal to face allegations they
participated in the torture and massacre of Muslims in Bosnia in 1993.
(AP, 4/5/04)
2004 Apr 5, The governing
coalition of Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean territory, collapsed over
allegations that the justice minister gave favors to a political donor
convicted of corruption.
(AP, 4/6/04)
2004 Apr 5, Indonesians voted in
legislative elections with Golkar, the party that once supported
ex-dictator Suharto, expected to win the most seats. Some 140,000
Indonesians chose between 450,000 candidates competing for 15,276
offices.
(AP, 4/5/04)(WSJ, 4/6/04, p.A1)(Econ, 4/10/04, p.31)
2004 Apr 5, In northeastern Iran
an oil tanker truck and a passenger bus collided, killing 30 people and
injuring 27.
(AP, 4/5/04)
2004 Apr 5, Paul Bremer, the top
U.S. administrator in Iraq, declared a radical Shiite cleric an
"outlaw" after his supporters rioted in Baghdad and four other cities
in fighting that killed at least 52 Iraqis, eight U.S. troops and a
Salvadoran soldier. A warrant was issued for al-Sadr related to the
murder of a rival Shiite leader in 2003.
(AP, 4/5/04)(WSJ, 4/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 5, Israeli troops killed
3 Palestinians near a Gaza settlement.
(WSJ, 4/6/04, p.A1)
2004 Apr 5, Alexander Lerner (90),
an eminent cyberneticist and a leading member of the "refusenik"
movement that promoted Jewish emigration from the former Soviet Union,
died in Israel.
(AP, 7/6/04)
2004 Apr 5, A flash flood swept
through two border communities in northern Mexico, flooding rivers,
washing away houses and killing 15 people. Dozens more were reported
missing.
(AP, 4/5/04)
2004 Apr 5, Pakistan gave
tribesmen 2 weeks to expel foreign terrorists.
(SFC, 4/6/04, p.A3)
2004 Apr 5, In Sri Lanka Pres.
Kumaratunga appointed Mahinda Rajapakse as PM.
(SFC, 4/6/04, p.A2)
2005 Apr 5, The 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.
(WSJ, 4/6/05, p.D1)
2005 Apr 5, Zalmay Khalilzad, a
former White House official who has served as US ambassador in his
native Afghanistan, was named to take over the post in Iraq.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 5, Crude futures prices
fell as traders took profits from a recent run-up. The EU cut its
economic growth forecast and OPEC began discussions on another output
increase.
(AP, 4/5/05)
2005 Apr 5, Peter Jennings
(b.1938), Canada-born ABC News anchorman revealed, he had lung cancer.
He died in August 2005.
(AP,
4/5/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jennings)
2005 Apr 5, Saul Bellow (89),
Nobel winning novelist, died in Brookline, Mass. His books included
“The Dangling Man” (1944), “Herzog” (1964), and “Ravelstein” (2000).
(SFC, 4/6/05, p.A1)(Econ, 4/16/05, p.76)
2005 Apr 5, Dale Messick (b.1906),
creator of the Brenda Starr cartoon series, died. The strip began in
1940 in Long Island.
(SFC, 4/8/05, p.B7)
2005 Apr 5, The IMF warned that
the growing market for credit derivatives and other complex securities
could suffer a rapid selloff if conditions turned negative.
(WSJ, 4/6/05, p.A6)
2005 Apr 5, In Brazil authorities
charged eight policemen with murder for the Mar 31 death-squad killings
that left 30 people dead on the outskirts of Rio.
(AP, 4/6/05)
2005 Apr 5, Amnesty International
said China accounted for the majority of executions reported worldwide
last year, but the true frequency of the death penalty is impossible to
count because many death sentences are carried out secretly.
(AP, 4/5/05)
2005 Apr 5, China's top industrial
safety official said the number of deaths in China's accident-plagued
coal mines surged by nearly 21% to 1,113 in the first three months of
this year despite a national safety crackdown.
(AP, 4/5/05)(WSJ, 4/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Apr 5, In Baghdad's southern
Dora neighborhood, an abandoned taxi exploded on an expressway near a
U.S. patrol, killing a US soldier and wounding four others. A US Marine
was killed by an explosion in the sprawling, western province of Anbar.
(AP, 4/5/05)
2005 Apr 5, Rebels opposed to a
bus link joining parts of Kashmir controlled by rivals India and
Pakistan set off bombs and fought gun battles with troops, two days
before the service was due to start.
(AP, 4/5/05)
2005 Apr 5, Guadalupe Garcia
Escamilla (39), radio reporter, was wounded in the chest, abdomen, legs
and arms during an attack in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo,
across from Laredo, Texas. She died from her wounds April 16.
(AP, 4/17/05)
2005 Apr 5, Saudi police killed 2
more militants, bringing the total to 9, as security forces continued a
tense standoff in ar-Rass. Among those killed were Moroccan Kareem
Altohami al-Mojati and Saudi Saud Homood Obaid al-Otaibi, who were
ranked 4 and 7 respectively on Saudi Arabia's list of 26 most wanted
al-Qaida-linked terror suspects.
(AP, 4/5/05)(SFC, 4/5/05, p.A3)
2005 Apr 5, Tens of thousands of
Sudanese marched through the capital Khartoum against a UN resolution
referring war crime suspects to the International Criminal Court.
(AP, 4/5/05)
2005 Apr 5, The UN handed
prosecutors from the International Criminal Court thousands of
documents and a list of 51 people to be investigated for alleged war
crimes in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region.
(AP, 4/6/05)(Econ, 4/9/05, p.38)
2006 Apr 5, Seattle customs
authorities arrested 18 men and 4 women who had arrived from China in a
40-foot cargo container.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Apr 5, Katie Couric announced
she was leaving NBC's "Today" show to become anchor of "The CBS Evening
News."
(AP, 4/5/07)
2006 Apr 5, Mike Pressler, the
lacrosse coach of Duke Univ., resigned amid allegations that 3 players
had raped a stripper at an off-campus party in March. Duke cancelled
the lacrosse season. The rape charges were later dropped, but the
players still faced allegations of sexual offense and kidnapping; all
maintained their innocence.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.A2)(AP, 4/5/07)
2006 Apr 5, Apple Corp. introduced
free software to allow users of its latest Mac models to run MS
Windows.
(Reuters, 4/5/06)(WSJ, 4/6/06, p.B1)
2006 Apr 5, SF picked Google and
EarthLink to bring free Internet access to the city.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Apr 5, Mike Pressler, the
lacrosse coach of Duke Univ., resigned amid allegations that 3 players
rape a stripper at an off-campus party in March. Duke cancelled the
lacrosse season.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.A2)
2006 Apr 5, Brown-Forman said it
will lay off 76 people and close its Fetzer Vineyards’ Valley Oaks
Hospitality Center in Hopland. Brown-Forman acquired Fetzer in 1992.
(SFC, 4/6/06, p.F2)
2006 Apr 5, Allan Kaprow (b.1927),
an artist who coined the term “happenings” in the late 1950s, died at
his home in Encinitas, Ca. In 1966 he published “Assemblage,
Environments, and Happenings.”
(SFC, 4/11/06, p.B5)(WSJ, 4/27/06, p.D7)
2006 Apr 5, Gene Pitney (b.1941),
US singer and songwriter and pop music star of the 1960s, died during a
tour of Britain. His chart-topping hits included “Town Without Pity”
(1961) "Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa" and "Something's Gotten Hold Of
My Heart."
(AP, 4/5/06)(SFC, 4/6/06, p.B7)(Econ, 4/15/06, p.86)
2006 Apr 5, In Afghanistan
coalition forces killed an insurgent and dropped 2,000-pound bombs on a
band of Taliban.
(AP, 4/6/06)
2006 Apr 5, A Brazilian
congressional investigative committee gave its final approval to a
report recommending prosecution of over 100 people linked to a campaign
finance and corruption scheme run by former members of the governing
Workers Party.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Britain reiterated its
sovereignty over the Falkland Islands and rejected Argentina's claims
in a letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Britain’s Serious
Fraud Office began criminal proceedings against nine individuals and
five companies it alleges fixed the price of two widely prescribed
generic drugs sold to the country's free National Health Service (NHS).
(AFP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Home Secretary Charles
Clarke said London would press for Romania to be granted membership of
the European Union "as soon as possible" as he praised the country's
work against people trafficking.
(AFP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Cuban coast guard
officials fatally shot a suspected migrant smuggler and arrested two
others after confronting them in an apparent operation to ferry 39
migrants out of the country on a US-registered speedboat. State
television later said that the migrant smuggler who was fatally shot
had left the island as a migrant himself three weeks earlier, but
returned as a crew member on the same boat to repay a debt.
(AP, 4/7/06)(AP, 4/8/06)
2006 Apr 5, In France
demonstrators blocked roads, rail lines and mail delivery trucks in a
second straight day of protests to demand the repeal of a divisive jobs
law, while unions vowed they would not compromise in talks with
President Jacques Chirac's ruling party on the issue.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, In Indonesia an
explosion in the headquarters of the paramilitary police command in the
western city of Medan killed two officers and injured several others.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, A video posted on the
Internet in the name of an extremist group claimed to show Iraqi
insurgents dragging the burning body of a US pilot on the ground after
the April 1 crash of an Apache helicopter.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, In Iraq a Sunni
professor was found dead hours after he was abducted in the southern
city of Basra.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, In Nepal police
detained dozens of opposition politicians and ordered a night curfew to
thwart a planned general strike aiming to pressure King Gyanendra to
restore democracy.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Pakistani security
forces and suspected Islamic militants battled for a second day near
the Afghan border, leaving four soldiers and 16 fighters dead.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, PM Ismail Haniyeh said
the new Hamas-led government is broke and missed the April 1 monthly
pay date for tens of thousands of Palestinian public workers.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, In the Solomon Islands
former premier Sir Allan Kemakeza narrowly clung to his seat in
parliamentary elections.
(AP, 4/18/06)
2006 Apr 5, Militants who captured
the South Korean fishing vessel off the coast of Somalia denied they
were pirates and said they were defending their waters from illegal
fishing.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Sudan said it would
allow UN Undersecretary Jan Egeland to visit Darfur.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Thailand’s PM Thaksin
Shinawatra handed over power to a longtime friend and fellow police
officer, less than 24 hours after saying he would step down over
allegations of corruption and abuse of power.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, Actor Michael Douglas
presented UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan with an award for his
dedication to ridding the world of land mines, marking the first
international day to honor the cause.
(AP, 4/5/06)
2006 Apr 5, In Venezuela Jorge
Aguirre, a photographer for the Caracas daily El Mundo, was shot and
killed on the way to an anti-crime protest. He managed to take a
picture of his assailant fleeing on a motorcycle. Homicide charges were
filed on April 15 against Boris Lenis Blanco (33), a police officer,
who was arrested April 13.
(AP, 4/16/06)
2007 Apr 5, The US pressed
Ethiopia for details on detainees from 19 nations taken to secret
prisons there and interrogated by CIA and FBI agents.
(WSJ, 4/6/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 5, The US Transportation
Dept. said it will require all passenger vehicles to have electronic
gear to prevent deadly rollovers by 2012.
(WSJ, 4/6/07, p.A1)
2007 Apr 5, Florida’s Gov. Charlie
Crist persuaded 2 of 3 members of the state board of executive clemency
that most felons had served their time and should automatically recover
the right to vote.
(Econ, 4/14/07, p.35)
2007 Apr 5, FBI Special Agent
Barry Lee Bush was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow agent as a
stakeout team closed in on three suspected bank robbers in Readington,
N.J.
(AP, 4/5/08)
2007 Apr 5, In San Mateo, Ca., Dr.
William Ayres (75), a published child psychologist, was arrested on 14
counts of child molestation, which dated back as far as 1969. 4 new
charges were added on April 12.
(SFC, 4/7/07, p.A1)(SFC, 4/13/07, p.B1)
2007 Apr 5, Darryl Stingley (55),
a former New England Patriots player paralyzed during an on-field
collision in 1978, died in Chicago.
(AP, 4/5/08)
2007 Apr 5, Australian police
charged two men, including an army captain, with stealing military
rocket launchers, some of which ended up in the hands of a suspected
terrorist.
(AFP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, Fifteen British
sailors and marines held captive by Iran returned home to a nation
relieved at their freedom but also outraged that they were used by
Tehran's propaganda machine.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, Ramzan Kadyrov was
inaugurated as the new president of Chechnya on a blessing from the
Kremlin, which has relied on him to stabilize the region after more
than a decade of separatist fighting.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, China told banks to
increase their reserves for the third time this year, cutting the
amount of money available for lending in a new effort to cool an
investment boom that Beijing worries could lead to a financial crisis.
Chinese celebrated the annual tomb-sweeping festival, but state media
said soaring funeral costs were leading to people complaining they can
no longer afford to die.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, A bus carrying
passengers on the start of the Easter holiday crashed in northern
Colombia, igniting a blaze that killed 27 people, including six
children.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, A Greek cruise ship,
the Sea Diamond, sank off the Aegean Sea island of Santorini, forcing
the evacuation of nearly 1,600 people.
(AP, 4/5/08)(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.E3)
2007 Apr 5, The editor-in-chief of
Playboy Indonesia was acquitted of charges that he violated the Muslim
nation's indecency laws by publishing pictures of scantily clothed
women.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, A bomb struck an oil
pipeline, cutting off supplies and causing a huge fire in southern Iraq
near the border with Kuwait. A US Army helicopter went down south of
Baghdad, injuring 4 of the 9 soldiers aboard. A US soldier was killed
by small-arms fire while on patrol in eastern Baghdad. 4 British
soldiers and a Kuwaiti interpreter were killed in an ambush in southern
Iraq. Thaer Ahmed, assistant director of Baghdad TV, was killed when a
car bomb struck the television offices in Jami'a, in west Baghdad. 12
people were wounded. Police in west Baghdad found the bullet-riddled
body of Khamael Muhsin, a famous television presenter during Saddam
Hussein's rule. She was kidnapped two days ago. Gunmen killed 18 Iraqi,
British and American soldiers in the past 24 hours in attacks in
Baghdad, the southern oil hub of Basra and near the northern city of
Mosul.
(AP, 4/5/07)(Reuters, 4/5/07)(AP, 4/6/07)
2007 Apr 5, Kosovo's parliament
overwhelmingly endorsed a UN plan that proposes internationally
supervised independence for the disputed province.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, In eastern Pakistan a
speeding tractor plowed into a roadside school, killing nine children
and injuring 18 others.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, A British diplomat met
with Palestinian PM Ismail Haniyeh to push for the release of a
kidnapped BBC journalist, the first direct meeting between a European
Union diplomat and a Hamas official of the Palestinians' new coalition
government.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, US House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi said that she raised the issue of Saudi Arabia's lack of female
politicians with Saudi government officials on the last stop of her
Mideast tour.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, Attackers fired a
grenade into a mosque in Thailand's restive south, wounding 16 Muslim
worshippers in an act of defiance after authorities imposed a strict
curfew to contain escalating violence.
(AP, 4/5/07)
2007 Apr 5, A Ugandan court
scrapped the nation's adultery law, saying it was unconstitutional and
favored men.
(AP, 4/6/07)
2008 Apr 5, Skybus 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.
(AP, 4/5/08)(SFC, 4/8/08, p.D3)
2008 Apr 5, Charlton Heston (84),
film star, died. he won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing
"Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic
figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s.
(AP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 5, Afghan and NATO forces
killed 15 Taliban insurgents in separate raids in southern Afghanistan,
where police also captured Abdul Jabar, a senior Taliban commander.
(AFP, 4/6/08)
2008 Apr 5, British PM Gordon
Brown called the current global economic crisis the largest challenge
of its kind in centuries while addressing some of the world's key
decision makers at a summit on climate change, the economy and global
poverty.
(AP, 4/5/08)
2008 Apr 5, London Heathrow
airport's new Terminal 5 was hit by fresh flights disruption when the
baggage system suffered a major software problem.
(AP, 4/5/08)
2008 Apr 5, In Croatia President
Bush celebrated NATO's expansion into former communist territory and
urged further enlargement, highlighting differences with Moscow hours
before final talks with outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
(AP, 4/5/08)
2008 Apr 5, Iran said it would not
make any concession in exchange for incentives offered by the West to
halt sensitive atomic activities.
(AP, 4/5/08)
2008 Apr 5, Youssef Adel, an
Assyrian Orthodox priest, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, a bomb exploded on a minibus carrying morning
commuters on the busy Palestine Street, killing at least four
passengers and wounding 15.
(AP, 4/5/08)
2008 Apr 5, In Japan G8
development officials began a two-day ministerial meeting in Tokyo on
how to ease suffering in Africa and other impoverished states as well
as bolster their efforts in foreign development aid.
(AFP, 4/5/08)
2008 Apr 5, In Kashmir police
fired tear gas to break up a protest by stone-throwing demonstrators
against alleged prison abuses as a strike paralyzed life in revolt-hit
Srinagar.
(AFP, 4/5/08)
2008 Apr 5, Electoral officials
said Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF took 30 seats in elections for the
country's senate, or upper house of parliament, with the combined
opposition taking the same number. The president and tribal chiefs are
to appoint the remaining 93 seats. Opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai
claimed outright victory in presidential elections and warned Robert
Mugabe's ruling party would resort to violence to cling to power. 3
cattle ranchers were driven off their land, and equipment and livestock
were seized.
(Reuters, 4/5/08)(AFP, 4/5/08)(AP, 4/6/08)
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