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 month-long return trip to England.
1792 - George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1887 - Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling "water" 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 Soviet Union.
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 70 in Houston.
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 Corp. 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 killed 38 others.
2015 - Rolling Stone magazine apologized and officially retracted its discredited article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia.
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.
2020 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital for tests, as he continued to suffer symptoms 10 days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Federal officials said a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York had tested positive for the coronavirus, in what was believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S.; the tiger was believed to have been infected by a zoo employee.
Birthdays
20 - Thylane Blondeau (model)
32 - Lily James (actress)
35 - Charlotte Flair (professional wrestler)
39 - Hayley Atwell (actress)
45 - Sterling K. Brown (actor)
48 - Pharrell Williams (rapper)
49 - Pat Green (country singer)
50 - Victoria Hamilton (actress)
50 - Krista Allen (actress)
53 - Paula Cole (singer)
67 - Peter Case (singer)
69 - Mitch Pileggi (actor)
75 - Jane Asher (actress)
78 - Max Gail (actor)
80 - Michael Moriarty (actor)
84 - Colin Powell (former Secretary of State)
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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 set an NBA playoff record with 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 its jersey numbering system (i.e. quarterbacks must wear #1 thru #19).
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points, breaking Wilt Chamberlain's record. (He still holds the career record to this day 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.
1990 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz establishes an NBA record by recording 1,000 assists in a third consecutive season.
1992 - Stanford defeats Western Kentucky 78-62 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1992 - WrestleMania VIII is held in Indianapolis. The top matches on the card saw "Macho Man" Randy Savage defeat Ric Flair for the WWF Championship and Hulk Hogan defeating Sid Justice.
1993 - North Carolina defeats Michigan 77-71 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1993 - The Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies make their Major League Baseball debuts; the Marlins defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3, while the Rockies fell to the New York Mets, 3-0.
1998 - The Arizona Diamondbacks record their first win in franchise history with a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants; the win snapped an 0-5 start for the franchise, the second-worst ever start by an expansion team.
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 became the first team in MLB history to start a season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous year.
2004 - Connecticut defeats Georgia Tech 28-73 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; the Nationals are the first team to represent Washington, D.C. since the Washington Senators left after the 1971 season.
2009 - WrestleMania 25 is held in Houston. The top matches on the card saw The Undertaker defeat Shawn Michaels; John Cena defeated Big Show and Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship; and Triple H defeated Randy Orton for the WWE Championship.
2010 - Duke defeats Butler 61-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2011 - Texas A&M defeated Notre Dame 76-70 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2016 - Connecticut won an unprecedented fourth consecutive NCAA Women's Tournament with an 82-51 rout of Syracuse to cap a perfect season.
2019 - Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook becomes the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season during the Thunder's 123-10 win at home over the Detroit Pistons.
2020 - WrestleMania 36 concluded from Orlando, after having run over the course of two days and in front of no fans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top matches saw Becky Lynch defeat Shayna Baszler for the Raw Women's Championship; Braun Strowman defeated Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship; The Undertaker defeated AJ Styles; "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt defeated John Cena; and Drew McIntyre defeated Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship.
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 month-long return trip to England.
1792 - George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.
1887 - Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling "water" 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 Soviet Union.
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 70 in Houston.
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 Corp. 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 killed 38 others.
2015 - Rolling Stone magazine apologized and officially retracted its discredited article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia.
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.
2020 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital for tests, as he continued to suffer symptoms 10 days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Federal officials said a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York had tested positive for the coronavirus, in what was believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S.; the tiger was believed to have been infected by a zoo employee.
Birthdays
20 - Thylane Blondeau (model)
32 - Lily James (actress)
35 - Charlotte Flair (professional wrestler)
39 - Hayley Atwell (actress)
45 - Sterling K. Brown (actor)
48 - Pharrell Williams (rapper)
49 - Pat Green (country singer)
50 - Victoria Hamilton (actress)
50 - Krista Allen (actress)
53 - Paula Cole (singer)
67 - Peter Case (singer)
69 - Mitch Pileggi (actor)
75 - Jane Asher (actress)
78 - Max Gail (actor)
80 - Michael Moriarty (actor)
84 - Colin Powell (former Secretary of State)
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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 set an NBA playoff record with 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 its jersey numbering system (i.e. quarterbacks must wear #1 thru #19).
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the highest-scoring player in NBA history with 31,421 career points, breaking Wilt Chamberlain's record. (He still holds the career record to this day 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.
1990 - John Stockton of the Utah Jazz establishes an NBA record by recording 1,000 assists in a third consecutive season.
1992 - Stanford defeats Western Kentucky 78-62 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
1992 - WrestleMania VIII is held in Indianapolis. The top matches on the card saw "Macho Man" Randy Savage defeat Ric Flair for the WWF Championship and Hulk Hogan defeating Sid Justice.
1993 - North Carolina defeats Michigan 77-71 to win the NCAA Tournament.
1993 - The Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies make their Major League Baseball debuts; the Marlins defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3, while the Rockies fell to the New York Mets, 3-0.
1998 - The Arizona Diamondbacks record their first win in franchise history with a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants; the win snapped an 0-5 start for the franchise, the second-worst ever start by an expansion team.
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 became the first team in MLB history to start a season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous year.
2004 - Connecticut defeats Georgia Tech 28-73 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; the Nationals are the first team to represent Washington, D.C. since the Washington Senators left after the 1971 season.
2009 - WrestleMania 25 is held in Houston. The top matches on the card saw The Undertaker defeat Shawn Michaels; John Cena defeated Big Show and Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship; and Triple H defeated Randy Orton for the WWE Championship.
2010 - Duke defeats Butler 61-59 to win the NCAA Tournament.
2011 - Texas A&M defeated Notre Dame 76-70 to win the NCAA Women's Tournament.
2016 - Connecticut won an unprecedented fourth consecutive NCAA Women's Tournament with an 82-51 rout of Syracuse to cap a perfect season.
2019 - Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook becomes the first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season during the Thunder's 123-10 win at home over the Detroit Pistons.
2020 - WrestleMania 36 concluded from Orlando, after having run over the course of two days and in front of no fans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top matches saw Becky Lynch defeat Shayna Baszler for the Raw Women's Championship; Braun Strowman defeated Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship; The Undertaker defeated AJ Styles; "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt defeated John Cena; and Drew McIntyre defeated Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship.