April 5
1614 - Pocahontas, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan tribe, married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
1621 - The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts on a monthlong return trip to England.
1764 - Britain’s Parliament passed The American Revenue Act of 1764, also known as the Sugar Act.
1792 - George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1887 - In Tuscumbia, Alabama, teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her 6-year-old deaf-blind pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet.
1895 - Playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused the writer of homosexual practices.
1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.
1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1971 - Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
1976 - Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died at age 72.
1986 - Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident that prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.
1987 - Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut by airing the situation comedy “Married with Children” followed by “The Tracey Ullman Show,” then repeating both premiere episodes two more times in the same evening.
1999 - Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
2008 - Actor Charlton Heston died at age 84.
2010 - An explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, West Virginia, killed 29 workers.
2010 - In a televised rescue, 115 Chinese coal miners were freed after spending eight days trapped in a flooded mine, surviving an accident that had killed 38.
2017 - President Donald Trump declared that a deadly chemical attack in Syria the day before had crossed “many, many lines” and abruptly changed his views of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but he refused to say what the U.S. might do in response.
2017 - YouTube TV, Google's new streaming package of about 40 television channels, made its debut.
2021 - The Minneapolis police chief testified that former officer Derek Chauvin had violated departmental policy in pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck and keeping Floyd down after he had stopped breathing; the testimony came on the sixth day of Chauvin’s murder trial. (Chauvin would be convicted of murder and manslaughter.)
Birthdays
21 - Thylane Blondeau (model)
25 - Dominik Mysterio (professional wrestler)
33 - Lily James (actress)
36 - Charlotte Flair (professional wrestler)
40 - Hayley Atwell (actress)
46 - Sterling K. Brown (actor)
49 - Pharrell Williams (rapper)
50 - Pat Green (singer)
51 - Victoria Hamilton (actress)
51 - Krista Allen (actress)
54 - Paula Cole (singer)
68 - Peter Case (singer)
70 - Mitch Pileggi (actor)
76 - Jane Asher (actress)
79 - Max Gail (actor)
81 - Michael Moriarty (actor)
82 - Tommy Cash (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 5
1965 - The color of National Football League penalty flags used by officials was changed from white to bright gold.
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia 76ers) set an NBA playoff record when he got 41 rebounds in a game.
1970 - Bobby Orr (Boston Bruins) became the first NHL defenseman to win the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's top scorer.
1972 - The regular MLB season fails to open due to a player strike for the first time in history; 86 games are lost before the labor dispute settled.
1973 - The NFL adopts a jersey numbering system (i.e. QBs wear #1-19).
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points. (He still holds the career record with with 38,387 points.)
1987 - Doug Jarvis (Hartford Whalers) completed his 12th NHL season in his 962nd consecutive game. Jarvis retired after playing the first two games of the 1987-88 season setting the iron-man record at 964 games.
1992 - Stanford defeats Western Kentucky 78-62 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1993 - North Carolina defeats Michigan 77-71 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1999 - Barry Bonds was walked intentionally for the 270th time of his career. He passed Hank Aaron on the all-time list.
2003 - The Kansas City Royals become the first team in MLB history to start a season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous season.
2004 - Connecticut defeats Georgia Tech 82-73 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2005 - Baylor defeats Michigan State 84-62 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2010 - Duke defeats Butler 61-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2011 - Texas A&M defeats Notre Dame 76-70 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2016 - Connecticut won an unprecedented fourth straight NCAA Women's Tournament with a 82-51 win over Syracuse, capping another perfect season.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder becomes the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season.
2021 - Baylor defeated Gonzaga 86-70 to win the NCAA Tournament and handing Gonzaga their only loss of the season.
1614 - Pocahontas, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan tribe, married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia.
1621 - The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts on a monthlong return trip to England.
1764 - Britain’s Parliament passed The American Revenue Act of 1764, also known as the Sugar Act.
1792 - George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1887 - In Tuscumbia, Alabama, teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her 6-year-old deaf-blind pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet.
1895 - Playwright Oscar Wilde lost his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who had accused the writer of homosexual practices.
1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.
1955 - Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1971 - Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
1976 - Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died at age 72.
1986 - Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident that prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.
1987 - Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut by airing the situation comedy “Married with Children” followed by “The Tracey Ullman Show,” then repeating both premiere episodes two more times in the same evening.
1999 - Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
2008 - Actor Charlton Heston died at age 84.
2010 - An explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, West Virginia, killed 29 workers.
2010 - In a televised rescue, 115 Chinese coal miners were freed after spending eight days trapped in a flooded mine, surviving an accident that had killed 38.
2017 - President Donald Trump declared that a deadly chemical attack in Syria the day before had crossed “many, many lines” and abruptly changed his views of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but he refused to say what the U.S. might do in response.
2017 - YouTube TV, Google's new streaming package of about 40 television channels, made its debut.
2021 - The Minneapolis police chief testified that former officer Derek Chauvin had violated departmental policy in pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck and keeping Floyd down after he had stopped breathing; the testimony came on the sixth day of Chauvin’s murder trial. (Chauvin would be convicted of murder and manslaughter.)
Birthdays
21 - Thylane Blondeau (model)
25 - Dominik Mysterio (professional wrestler)
33 - Lily James (actress)
36 - Charlotte Flair (professional wrestler)
40 - Hayley Atwell (actress)
46 - Sterling K. Brown (actor)
49 - Pharrell Williams (rapper)
50 - Pat Green (singer)
51 - Victoria Hamilton (actress)
51 - Krista Allen (actress)
54 - Paula Cole (singer)
68 - Peter Case (singer)
70 - Mitch Pileggi (actor)
76 - Jane Asher (actress)
79 - Max Gail (actor)
81 - Michael Moriarty (actor)
82 - Tommy Cash (singer)
==================================
Today in Sports History - April 5
1965 - The color of National Football League penalty flags used by officials was changed from white to bright gold.
1967 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia 76ers) set an NBA playoff record when he got 41 rebounds in a game.
1970 - Bobby Orr (Boston Bruins) became the first NHL defenseman to win the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's top scorer.
1972 - The regular MLB season fails to open due to a player strike for the first time in history; 86 games are lost before the labor dispute settled.
1973 - The NFL adopts a jersey numbering system (i.e. QBs wear #1-19).
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points. (He still holds the career record with with 38,387 points.)
1987 - Doug Jarvis (Hartford Whalers) completed his 12th NHL season in his 962nd consecutive game. Jarvis retired after playing the first two games of the 1987-88 season setting the iron-man record at 964 games.
1992 - Stanford defeats Western Kentucky 78-62 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1993 - North Carolina defeats Michigan 77-71 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1999 - Barry Bonds was walked intentionally for the 270th time of his career. He passed Hank Aaron on the all-time list.
2003 - The Kansas City Royals become the first team in MLB history to start a season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous season.
2004 - Connecticut defeats Georgia Tech 82-73 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2005 - Baylor defeats Michigan State 84-62 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2010 - Duke defeats Butler 61-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2011 - Texas A&M defeats Notre Dame 76-70 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2016 - Connecticut won an unprecedented fourth straight NCAA Women's Tournament with a 82-51 win over Syracuse, capping another perfect season.
2019 - Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder becomes the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season.
2021 - Baylor defeated Gonzaga 86-70 to win the NCAA Tournament and handing Gonzaga their only loss of the season.
