On This Day for April 5 - Battle of Maipú, Colin Powell is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-05 10:02 Updated: 2020-04-05 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History
This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view.
April 05
Colin Powell
FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
Colin Powell
READ MORE
 
Chile
FEATURED EVENT
1818
Battle of Maipú
READ MORE
 
Advertisement
Advertisement
Earth's To-Do List
 
MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY
Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur
2008: American actor Charlton Heston , who possessed a commanding screen presence and was best known for such films as The Ten Commandments (1956) and Planet of the Apes (1968), died in California. [Take our actors and acting quiz.]
Mori Yoshiro
2000: Mori Yoshiro of the Liberal-Democratic Party became prime minister of Japan, replacing Obuchi Keizo, who had suffered a stroke earlier in the month and subsequently died. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Japanese history.]
Kurt Cobain
1994: American grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, leader of the band Nirvana , committed suicide. [Read our list of Seattle's 10 claims to fame.]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
1984: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar surpassed Wilt Chamberlain as the all-time leading scorer in the National Basketball Association. [ See where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ranks on our list of the 10 best basketball players of all time.]
Julius Rosenberg
1951: Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for espionage; two years later they became the first American civilians executed for that crime. [ Discover 10 famous names in the espionage game.]
Bette Davis in Jezebel
1908: American actress Bette Davis—whose raw unbridled intensity kept her at the top of her profession for 50 years—was born. [Take our women in classic cinema quiz.]
SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY
ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY
1973
Pharrell Williams
American musician and producer
1916
Gregory Peck
American actor
1588
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
1908
Bette Davis
American actress
1839
Robert Smalls
American politician
1937
Colin Powell
United States general and statesman
SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY
 
 
Advertisement
 
FOLLOW:
Facebook   Twitter   YouTube
To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here.
Encyclopædia Britannica
325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200
Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States
© 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Privacy PolicyHelp
 

View static HTML