April 5th

April 5 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 260 days remaining until the end of time.

456 As he promised he would do, St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop.

1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider press which, according to tradition, must be operated in the nude.

1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller

1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices. Oh you meant those homosexual practices!?

1930 In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt. As punishment, defiant Indians are cursed with hypertension.

1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days

                            Click here for his incredible story of survival 

1974 World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories)

1856 Booker T. Washington, educator/author/civil rights leader 

1900 Spencer Tracy, US actor 

1908 Bette Davis, US actress 

1922 Christopher Hewett, maybe gay English actor/Mr Belvedere 

1937 Colin Powell, US Army general/chairman of joint chiefs/US secretary of state/bald-faced liar 

1941 Michael Moriarty, US actor 

1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer/songwriter (ABBA) 

1950 Miki Manojlovic, Serbian actor/Criminal Lovers 

1952 Mitch Pileggi, US actor 

1960 Von Flores, Filipino-Canadian actor 

1968 Patrice Godin, Canadian actor 

1959 Javier Albala, Spanish actor 

1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress/Lindsey on Queer as Folk 

1974 Lukas Ridgeston, Slovak porn actor 

1978 Dwain Chambers, lifetime banned English sprinter/rugger 

1980 David Chocarro, Argentine model 

1981 Eugenio Siller, Mexican actor 

1982 Ricardo Meneses, Portugese actor 

1984 Marshall Allman, US actor/Prison Break 

1964 Douglas MacArthur, US general and old soldier, just fades away

1994 Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), succumbs to AIDS

1997 Allen Ginsberg, gay US beat poet, beats it

2008 Charlton Heston, US actor, discovers that he is not God after all.