April 5
1614 - Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.
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.
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.
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 Great Britain.
1971 - Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
1976 - Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 70.
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 sitcom "Married...with Children" followed by "The Tracey Ullman Show," then repeating both premiere episodes two more times in the same evening.
1991 - Former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.
1999 - Libya handed over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
2008 - Actor Charlton Heston, big-screen hero and later leader of the National Rifle Association, died in Beverly Hills, California, 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.
2018 - In his first public comments about Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump said he didn’t know about the $130,000 payment his personal attorney Michael Cohen had made to the porn actress who alleged she had an affair with Trump.
2019 - Inspecting a refurbished section of fencing at the Mexican border in California, President Donald Trump declared that “our country is full,” and that illegal crossings must be stopped.
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.)
2022 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one set up at Nuremberg after World War II.
2023 - Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country's most famous political families, announced his candidacy for president.
Birthdays
23 - Thylane Blondeau (model)
24 - Felicia Truedsson (actress)
27 - Dominik Mysterio (professional wrestler)
35 - Lily James (actress)
38 - Charlotte Flair (professional wrestler)
42 - Hayley Atwell (actress)
48 - Sterling K. Brown (actor)
51 - Pharrell Williams (rapper)
52 - Pat Green (singer)
53 - Victoria Hamilton (actress)
53 - Krista Allen (actress)
56 - Paula Cole (singer)
70 - Peter Case (singer)
78 - Jane Asher (actress)
81 - Max Gail (actor)
83 - Michael Moriarty (actor)
84 - 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.
1973 - The NFL adopts a jersey numbering system (i.e. quarterbacks wear #1-#19).
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Lakers) became the all-time NBA regular season scoring leader when he broke Wilt Chamberlain's record of 31,419 career points.
1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."
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.
1993 - The Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies make their MLB debuts; the Marlins fall to the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 while the Rockies fall to the New York Mets 3-0.
1998 - The Arizona Diamondbacks record the first win in franchise history with a 3-2 win over the San Francisco Giants.
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 begin a season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous year.
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.
2005 - The Washington Nationals lose their inaugural season opener 8-4 to the Philadelphia Phillies after having relocated from Montreal (Expos); they are the first MLB team to represent the nation's capital since the Washington Senators left after the 1971 season.
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 consecutive NCAA Women's Tournament after a 82-51 win over Syracuse.
2019 - Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook becomes the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season.
2021 - Baylor defeats Gonzaga 86-70 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2023 - Connecticut defeats San Diego State 76-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1614 - Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.
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.
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.
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 Great Britain.
1971 - Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
1976 - Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 70.
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 sitcom "Married...with Children" followed by "The Tracey Ullman Show," then repeating both premiere episodes two more times in the same evening.
1991 - Former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.
1999 - Libya handed over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
2008 - Actor Charlton Heston, big-screen hero and later leader of the National Rifle Association, died in Beverly Hills, California, 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.
2018 - In his first public comments about Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump said he didn’t know about the $130,000 payment his personal attorney Michael Cohen had made to the porn actress who alleged she had an affair with Trump.
2019 - Inspecting a refurbished section of fencing at the Mexican border in California, President Donald Trump declared that “our country is full,” and that illegal crossings must be stopped.
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.)
2022 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one set up at Nuremberg after World War II.
2023 - Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country's most famous political families, announced his candidacy for president.
Birthdays
23 - Thylane Blondeau (model)
24 - Felicia Truedsson (actress)
27 - Dominik Mysterio (professional wrestler)
35 - Lily James (actress)
38 - Charlotte Flair (professional wrestler)
42 - Hayley Atwell (actress)
48 - Sterling K. Brown (actor)
51 - Pharrell Williams (rapper)
52 - Pat Green (singer)
53 - Victoria Hamilton (actress)
53 - Krista Allen (actress)
56 - Paula Cole (singer)
70 - Peter Case (singer)
78 - Jane Asher (actress)
81 - Max Gail (actor)
83 - Michael Moriarty (actor)
84 - 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.
1973 - The NFL adopts a jersey numbering system (i.e. quarterbacks wear #1-#19).
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Lakers) became the all-time NBA regular season scoring leader when he broke Wilt Chamberlain's record of 31,419 career points.
1985 - John McEnroe said "any man can beat any woman at any sport, especially tennis."
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.
1993 - The Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies make their MLB debuts; the Marlins fall to the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 while the Rockies fall to the New York Mets 3-0.
1998 - The Arizona Diamondbacks record the first win in franchise history with a 3-2 win over the San Francisco Giants.
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 begin a season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous year.
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.
2005 - The Washington Nationals lose their inaugural season opener 8-4 to the Philadelphia Phillies after having relocated from Montreal (Expos); they are the first MLB team to represent the nation's capital since the Washington Senators left after the 1971 season.
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 consecutive NCAA Women's Tournament after a 82-51 win over Syracuse.
2019 - Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook becomes the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season.
2021 - Baylor defeats Gonzaga 86-70 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2023 - Connecticut defeats San Diego State 76-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
