TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS THURSDAY, APRIL 5, the 95th day of 2018. There are 270 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1764, Britain’s Parliament passed The American Revenue Act of 1764, also known as the Sugar Act, which was repealed in 1766.
In 1614, Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.
In 1792, President George Washington cast his first veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
In 1887, Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her 6-year-old deafblind pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet. British historian Lord Acton wrote in a letter, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
In 1925, a tornado estimated at F-3 intensity struck northern Miami-Dade County, Fla., killing five people.
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Civilian Conservation Corps and an antihoarding order that effectively prohibited private ownership of gold.
In 1955, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned for health reasons. Democrat Richard J. Daley was first
elected mayor of Chicago, defeating Republican Robert E. Merriam.
In 1964, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur died in Washington, D.C., at age 84.
In 1976, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 70.
In 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.
In 1988, a 15-day hijacking ordeal began as gunmen forced a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet to land in Iran.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Movie producer Roger Corman is 92. Former U.S. Secretary of State and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell is 81. Country singer Tommy Cash is 78. Actor Michael Moriarty is 77. Pop singer Allan Clarke (The Hollies) is 76. Actor Max Gail is 75. Actress Jane Asher is 72. Singer Agnetha Faltskog (ABBA) is 68. Singer-songwriter Peter Case is 64. Rock musician Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) is 52. Singer Paula Cole is 50. Actresses Krista Allen and Victoria Hamilton are 47. Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is 45. Rapper/producer Juicy J is 43. Country singer-musician Mike Eli (The Eli Young Band) is 37. Actress Hayley Atwell is 36. Actress Lily James is 29.