"This Date In History" Game

[Krakkan]

Rather simple game really... use any source you like to find famous/infamous events that happened on today's date (the current day you are posting) in history.

Can be just about anything really that can be verified on the internet: events, births, deaths, etc...

Your post should include the historical date (today's date of a previous year), then describe the event, and if you can post a link to a website detailing the event (not required but will make it fun). Try to be creative in your sources for events.

Please do not post more than one event per post and do not make more than one post in a row. Let's let everyone else have a chance to post an interesting historical tidbit.

Have fun!!

I'm going first....


5th April 1994 : Modern rock icon Kurt Cobain lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the rock band Nirvana commits suicide with a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

 

[Houdini]

Charlton Heston died this day last year.
One of my favorite movies...

 

[Figurehead]

5th April 1994 : Modern rock icon Kurt Cobain lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the rock band Nirvana is murdered by an unknown person that makes the scene look like a "suicide" with what looked to be a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

 

[booboo]

April 5th, 2001.....my mom died at age 44 of a lung abcess

 

[DebRich]

Sorry to hear that booboo.That is way to young...

 

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

First Contact!

2063 Earth's 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek


I admit it - I'm a trekkie!

 

[Krakkan]

First Contact!

2063 Earth's 1st contact by extra-terrestrials (Vulcan); according to Star Trek


I admit it - I'm a trekkie!

good one

 

[Smocha]

April 5th 1955: Churchill retires

Sir Winston Churchill retires as British prime minister. A daring soldier and reporter in the Boer War of 1899 to 1902, Churchill subsequently held a number of high ranking government posts during the 1910’s and 1920’s. His political career went somewhat into obscurity during the 1930’s, though during this time Churchill was one of the few British politicians to recognise, from an early date, the threat that the rise of Nazism in Germany posed to Europe.

 

[Wildsky]

Betty Davis was born on April 5, 1908

 

[gep]

Battle of Yorktown Begins: April 5, 1862
Battle of Yorktown (1862) - encyclopedia article about Battle of Yorktown (1862).

 

[CssReb]

In Astoria, N.Y., Walter , whose two small runaway sons had just been picked up by police for the sixth time, complained: "It's you cops. You give the boys so much ... ice cream and candy . . ."

My dad's 15 minutes of fame

HP-Time.com - TIME

 

[mace bewley]

April 9th 1865 General Lee surrendered at Appomattax ending the Civil war. Damn Yankees. LOL!
April 9th 1976 I was born

Mace

 

[mace bewley]

Also share a B-day with Hugh Hefner, Carl Perkins, Dennis Quaid, And Leopold the 2nd.
Paul Mcartney left some british group called the Beatles?? Ticket to ride released.
First flight of the concorde. Constantine dies in 715. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Buried in Atlanta. I could go on farther but they get a lot more abscure.

Mace