DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Tuesday, April 5, the 95th day of 2022. There are 270 days left in the year.
On this date in:
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.
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 following their conviction in New York on charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
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.
1991: Former Sen. John Tower, R-texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.
2008: Actor Charlton Heston, bigscreen 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. 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.
2016: Uconn won an unprecedented fourth straight women’s national championship, capping another perfect season by routing Syracuse 82-51.
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.
Filmmaker Roger Corman is 96. Country singer Tommy Cash is 82. Actor Michael Moriarty (“Law and Order”) is 81. Singer Allan Clarke of The
Hollies is 80. Actor Max Gail (“Sons and Daughters,” “Barney Miller”) is 79. Actor Jane Asher is 76. Singer Agnetha Faltskog of ABBA is 72. Actor Mitch Pileggi
(“The X Files”) is 70. Singer Peter Case
of The Plimsouls is 68. Rapper-actor Christopher “Kid” Reid of Kid ‘n Play (“House Party”) is 58. Guitarist Mike Mccready of Pearl Jam is 56. Musician Paula Cole
is 54. Actor Krista Allen
(“Baywatch,” “What About Brian”) is 51. Actor Victoria Hamilton (“The Crown”) is 51. Country singer Pat Green is 50. Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is 49. Rapper Juicy J
(Three 6 Mafia) is 47. Actor Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”) is 46. Singer-guitarist Mike Eli of The Eli Young Band is 41.