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Birthdates which occurred on April 05:
1588 Thomas Hobbes England, philosopher (Leviathan)
1649 Elihu Yale England, philanthropist founded Yale
1725 Giacomo Casanova Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)
1732 Jean-Honor‚ Fragonard painter
1752 S‚bastien Erard piano/harp manufacturer
1784 Ludwig Spohr Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)
1795 Sir Henry Havelock British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
1811 Jules Dupr‚ landscape painter
1824 Sydney Thompson Dobell poet (The Roman)
1827 Joseph Lister England, physician, founded aseptic surgery
1830 Alexander Muir Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (The Maple Leaf Forever)
1832 Jules-Fran‡ois Camille Ferry French statesman
1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
1838 Alpheus Hyatt US, invertebrate paleontologist
1839 Robert Smalls Beaufort SC, black congressman 1875-87 (Rep-SC)
1856 Booker Taliaferro Washington pioneer educator (1st black on US stamp)
1869 Albert Roussel Tourcoing France, composer (Rapsodie Flamende)
1893 Clas Thunberg Finland, speed skater (Olympic Gold-1924, 28)
1899 Willianm Hornby Steer barrister/judge
19-- Chao Li Chi actress (Falcon Crest)
19-- Cindy Weintraub NYC, actress (Terry-Baker's Dozen)
19-- Christopher Hewett Sussex England, actor (Mr Belvedere)
19-- Shawn Stevens Morristown NJ, actor (Roy-Last Convertible)
19-- Tasia Valenza actress (All My Children)
19-- Willy Chirino spanish singer
1900 Spencer Tracy actor (Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib)
1901 Chester Bowles Mass, ambassador/writer (Conscience of a Liberal)
1901 Melvyn Douglas Macon Ga, actor (Hud, Ghost Story)
1905 Bill Raisch one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive)
1908 Bette Davis Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
1908 Grady Sutton Chattanooga Tn, actor (Pruitts of South Hampton)
1908 George Schick Prague Czech, conductor (Chicago Symphony)
1908 Herbert von Karajan Austria, Berlin Philharmonic conductor/Nazi
1908 Mary Hemingway writer (Ernest Hemmingway Biography)
1909 Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli film producer
1911 Goddard Lieberson Hanley Staffordshire England, recording exec
1911 Gordon Jones Alden Iowa, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello)
1916 Gregory Peck La Jolla Calif, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)
1917 Richard Yardumian Philadelphia, composer (Come Creator Spirit)
1917 Robert Bloch American writer (Psycho)
1919 Sir Douglas Henley British auditor-general
1920 Arthur Halley England, Canadian author (Hotel, Airport)
1921 Lady Fisher founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1921 Robert Q Lewis NYC, TV host (Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show)
1922 Gale Storm Bloomington Tx, actr (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show)
1922 Tom Finney British soccer star
1923 Nguyen Van Thieu president of South Vietnam
1923 Stanley Orme chairman (British Labour Party)
1926 Roger Corman Detroit, producer/director (Little Shop of Horrors)
1928 Michael Bryant actor (Sakharov, Girly)
1928 Tony Williams rocker (The Platters-Only You)
1928 Will Gaines jazz dancer
1929 Nigel Hawthorne actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
1933 Frank Gorshin comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman)
1934 Stanley Turrentine saxophonist
1934 Tina Maria Stone runner (1 year distance record of 15,472 miles)
1935 Donald Lynden-Bell British astronomer
1935 Frank Gorshin Pittsburgh Pa, impressionist/actor (Riddler-Batman)
1936 John Albert professor (Master of University College Oxford)
1937 Colin Powell Bronx NY, general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs)
1939 David Winters London England, choreographer (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1939 Lonnie White vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
1940 Aliza Kashi Israel, actress/singer (Merv Griffin regular)
1941 David LaFlamme electric violinist (It's a Beautiful Day)
1941 Eric Burdon rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 Michael Moriarity Detroit, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
1942 Allan Clarke rock vocalist (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe)
1943 Jonathan Lynn Bath England, actor (Danny-Doctor in the House)
1943 Max Gail Mich, (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People)
1944 Dave Holland heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
1946 Jane Asher Paul McCartney's former girlfriend/actress (Deep End)
1946 Jennifer Penney ballerina
1949 Dr Judith Arlene Resnik Akron Ohio, ast (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster)
1950 Agnetha F„ltskog Stockholm Sweden, rocker (ABBA-Waterloo)
1950 Anna Ulvaeus rocker (Aha-Take on Me)
1950 Franklin R Chang-Diaz Costa Rica, PhD/astronaut (STS 61C, 34, sk:46)
1951 Everett Morton rocker (English Beat)
1951 Roosevel Ferguson Arkansas, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1954 Christopher S Nelson New Orleans LA, actor (Sons & Daughters)
1954 Michael W Butler created TODAY program
1954 Stan Ridgeway rocker (Mosquito-Garage Sale)
1955 Janice Long British radio host
1958 Cammie Lusko LA Calif, Guinness' World Strongest Woman
1958 Johan Kriek South Africa, tennis player (US Indoor 1982)
1963 Jimmy Osmond singer (Donny & Marie Show)
1968 Gianna Amore Warwick RI, playmate (August, 1989)
2173 Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek)

Deaths which occurred on April 05:
1531 Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
1649 John Winthrop 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies
1684 William Brouncker 2nd viscout/1st pres of Royal Society, dies
1765 Edward Young poet, dies
1794 Georges-Jaques Danton French revolutionary leader, guillotined
1811 Robert Raikes founder of Sunday Schools, dies
1923 George Edward Stanhope Molyne£x Herbert 5th Earl of Carnarvon, dies
1928 Jane Ellen Harrison scholar/archelogist, dies
1946 Vincent Millie Youmans composer, dies
1964 Douglas MacArthur US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84
1972 Brian Donlevy actor (Steve-Dangerous Assignment), dies at 73
1974 William Hudson actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49
1975 Chai Kai-shek leader (Taiwan), dies
1976 Howard Hughes reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
1984 Arthur Travors Harris marshal of British RAF, dies
1991 John Tower (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash
1992 Sam Walton Billionaire CEO (Walmart), dies of cancer at 74

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 BROWN JAMES WILLIAM MAUD TX.
1967 PARKER THOMAS A. OXFORD IN.
1968 MATOCHA DONALD JOHN SMITHVILLE TX.
1970 CROPPER CURTIS H. PASO ROBLES CA.
1970 CARON GILLES FRANCE 1970 HANNOTEAUX GUY FRANCE 1970 VISOT MICHEL FRANCE 1972 SPENGLER HENRY M. II ALEXANDRIA VA.
REMAINS RETURNED 08/22/89
1972 WINDELER CHARLES C. JR. SAVANNAH GA.
REMAINS RETURNED 08/22/89

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by the P.O.W. NETWORK.

Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
1614 2nd parliment of King James I begin session (no enactments)
1614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
1812 Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish
1815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
1847 The opera "Die Fledermaus" is produced (Vienna)
1853 A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #24 Themis
1853 Asteroid 24, Themis discovered
1853 DeGasparis discovers his 7th asteroid, Themis (24)
1861 Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
1874 "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed (Vienna)
1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1886 J Palisa discovers asteroid #257 Silesia
1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of The Copper Beeches" (BG)
1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Empty House" (BG)
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the 3 Students" (BG)
1895 Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested
1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
1906 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
1907 A Kopff discovers asteroid #632 Pyrrha
1911 W W Aster acquires the Daily Observer
1913 S Belyavskij & G Neujmin discovers asteroid #749 Malzovia
1915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight boxing crown (23r)
1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
1924 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2235 Vittore
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in the 100 & 200 m freestyle
1929 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1116 Catriona
1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
1938 H Alikoski discovers asteroid #2714 Matti
1941 In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
1949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill)
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
1959 Art Wall wins golf's Masters
1961 Barbra Striesand appears on "The Jack Paar Show"
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1963 Beatles recieve their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1964 1st driverless trains run on the London Underground
1967 '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
1976 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2928
1976 Harold Wilson resigns as PM of England
1979 Pioneer 11 launched towards Jupiter
1981 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2383 Bradley & #2433 Sootiyo
1981 Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
1984 A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3364
1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career
scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
1986 2 US servicemen die in West Berlin discotheque bombing
1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1986 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
1987 Fox TV network premiers showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
1987 Wayne Gretsky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
1988 Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate
1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving
all profits from Newman foods to charity
1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
1991 US begins air drops to Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq
1992 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
1992 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
1992 Wrestlemania VIII-Randy "Macho Man" Savage beats Ric Flair for title
2348 -BC- Noah's ark grounded, Mt Ararat (calculated date)

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Taiwan : Death of Chiang Kai-shek/Tomb Sweeping Day (1975)
Iceland : 1st Day of Summer (or 0418)
South Korea : Arbor Day
Switzerland : Glarius Festival (1388) - - - - - ( Thursday )
Mass : Student Government Day - - - - - ( Friday )

Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Ethelburga of Lyminge
Christian : Feast of St Gerard of Suave-Majeure
Orthodox : Earliest possible Orthodox Easter (3/23 OS)
Christian : Feast of St Albert of Montecorvino
Christian : Feast of St DerfelGadarn
RC : Memorial of St Vincent Ferrer, confessor/priest CE (opt)

Religious History
1784 Birth of Louis Spohr, German violin virtuoso and composer. He is best remembered today for composing the hymn tunes GERALD ("I Want a Principle Within") and SPOHR ("All Things Bright and Beautiful").
1802 Pioneer Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'I am often drawn out in thankfulness to God, who hath saved a mother of mine and, I trust, a father also, who are already in glory, where I hope to meet them both."
1811 Death of Robert Raikes, 76, the English philanthropist regarded by many as the founder (in 1780) of the modern Sunday School movement.
1953 In Washington, D.C., President Dwight Eisenhower inaugurated the Presidential Prayer Breakfast. (Its name was later changed to the Annual National Prayer Breakfast.)
1969 Pope Paul VI abolished the galero (red hat) and red shoes and buckles customarily worn by Roman Catholic cardinals.

Thought for the day :
"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."