The Historical High Point of Today: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were found guilty in New York of plotting to conduct espionage for the Soviet Union, and on April 5, 1951, they were given the death penalty.
Today, this date: Pocahontas, the daughter of Indian Chief Powhatan, married widower John Rolfe of England in the Virginia Colony in 1614.
The Mayflower set sail for a month-long journey back to England in 1621 from Plymouth Colony, located in modern-day Massachusetts.
In that year, the Sugar Act, which is frequently referred to as the American Revenue Act of 1764, was enacted by the British Parliament.
Teacher Anne Sullivan made history in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1887 when Helen Keller, a 6-year-old deaf-blind student, discovered the definition of the word “water” as it appears in the Manual Alphabet.
The reticent billionaire Howard Hughes passed away in Houston in 1976 at the age of 70.
A U.S. air raid on Libya occurred more than a week after a bombing of a West Berlin discotheque in 1986 that claimed the lives of two American servicemen and a Turkish lady.
Fox Broadcasting Co. debuted on prime-time television in 1987 with the situation comedy “Married with Children,” which was followed by “The Tracey Ullman Show”. “The two premiere programs were then repeated twice on the same evening.
In 1991, a commuter jet crash in Brunswick, Georgia, claimed the lives of former Texas senator John Tower, along with his daughter Marian and twenty-one other individuals.
Actor Charlton Heston, the National Rifle Association’s leader after becoming a big-screen hero, passed away in Beverly Hills, California, in 2008 at the age of 84.
In 2010, an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in the tragic loss of 29 laborers. After being stuck in a flooded mine for eight days, 115 Chinese coal miners were liberated in a televised rescue, escaping a catastrophe that had claimed 38 lives.
UConn defeated Syracuse 82-51 in 2016 to earn an unprecedented fourth consecutive women’s national championship, concluding another perfect season.
President Donald Trump stated in 2018, in his initial remarks to the public regarding Stormy Daniels, that he was unaware that his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had paid the pornographic actress $130,000.
President Donald Trump declared in 2019 while inspecting a refurbished section of fencing at the California-Mexico border that “our country is full” and that unauthorized border crossings must cease.
The sixth day of former officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial in 2021 witnessed the testimony of the Minneapolis police superintendent, who stated that Chauvin had violated departmental policy by placing his knee against George Floyd’s neck and holding him down after he expired.
Russian troops were implicated in heinous atrocities committed in Ukraine in 2022, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who told the United Nations Security Council that those responsible should be tried for war crimes promptly by a tribunal similar to the one established at Nuremberg following World War II.
Political activist and heir of one of the nation’s most illustrious political families, Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his candidacy for president in 2023. Kennedy was an anti-vaccina activist.