Daily Calendar for Friday, April 5, 2013

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John Winthrop (founder of Mass. Bay Colony, died in Boston (date was 03/26/1649 on the Julian calendar)) – 1649
Howard Hughes (industrialist, aviator, and movie producer; died in Houston, Texas) – 1976
Sam Walton (businessman) – 1992
Kurt Cobain (musician) – 1994
Allen Ginsberg (poet) – 1997
Lee Petty (race car driver) – 2000
Saul Bellow (author of Humboldt’s Gift and other novels, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) – 2005
Charlton Heston (actor) – 2008

Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe – 1614
New York Chamber of Commerce formed – 1768
Anne Sullivan made a breakthrough with blind/deaf student Helen Keller, by conveying the meaning of the word water – 1887
Jess Willard knocked out Jack Johnson to win world heavyweight boxing title – 1915
Women granted the right to vote in British Columbia – 1917
Richard J. Daley elected to his first term as Chicago’s 39th mayor – 1955
J. Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, declared a security risk in 1954, is named winner of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Enrico Ferni award – 1963
My Fair Lady won an Academy Award for Best Picture – 1965
Bobby Orr first NHL defenseman to win scoring title – 1970
Basketball star Kareem Abdul- Jabbar of the L.A. Lakers became the highest scoring player in NBA history. He reached 31,420 points, beating Wilt Chamberlain’s record – 1984
A camel named Bert was deputized, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California – 2003
A minor earthquake shook southeastern Massachusetts – 2005
Elsie McLean, at 102 years old, became the oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course – 2007

This was the last day of a four-day snowstorm in the northern Rockies and the Black Hills, with the town of Lead, South Dakota, receiving 52 inches – 1955
A blizzard left 27.2 inches of snow in St. John’s, Newfoundland – 1999
26.9 inches of snow fell in St. John’s, Newfoundland – 1999