This Day In History

April 5

St. Vincent

1614  Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
1621  The Mayflower sails from Plymouth, Massachusettes on a return trip to England.
1792  President George Washington cast the first veto rejecting a Congressional measure for apportioning representatives   among the states.
1869  Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier of the Revolutionary War, died at the age of 109.
1964  General Douglas MacArthur dies in Washington at age 84.
1966  Timothy Leary spoke at New York's Town Hall and advocated the use of hallucingenic drug LSD
1976  Howard Hughes dies at age 72.

1806  Isaac Quintard of Stanfield, CT, patents the cider mill.
1933  The first lung operation at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
1987  The first launch of a television network in nearly 40 years, the FOX Broadcasting Company, first thought of as a joke, but later becomes serious competition to the other major networks.

1827  Inventor of Listerine Mouthwash, Joseph Lister
1856  Scientist Booker T. Washington born in Franklin County, Virginia.
1900  Actor Spencer Tracy
1908  Actress Bette Davis
1916  Actor Gregory Peck
1920  Actor Arthur Hailey

1959

• Venus - Frankie Avalon

• Never Be Anyone Else But You - Ricky Nelson

• Pink Shoelaces - Dodie Stevens

• Tijuana Jail - The Kingston Trio

1963

• He's So Fine - The Chiffons

• Our Day Will Come - Ruby and The Romantics

• Can't Get Used to Losing You - Andy Williams

• The End of the World - Skeeter Davis

1972

• A Horse with No Name - America

• Heart of Gold - Neil Young

• The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack

• My Hang-Up is You - Freddie Hart

1981

• Rapture - Blondie

• Woman - John Lennon

• Kiss on My List - Daryl Hall and John Oates

• Drifter - Sylvia

1999

• Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

• Its All Been Done Before - Bare Naked Ladies

• Believe - Cher

• Every Morning - Sugar Ray

• Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry

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