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April 5
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Wednesday January 07, 2009
April 5 in history:
- 1976: The reclusive business executive, aviator, and movie producer Howard Hughes died, leaving no legally valid will, a circumstance that encouraged many false claims on his estate.
- 1964: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the U.S. Army forces in the Pacific during World War II, director of the occupation of Japan following that war, and supreme commander of the United Nations forces in the Korean War (until his dramatic dismissal), died; a period of national mourning followed while his body lay in state at the U.S. Capitol.
- 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death; they became the first U.S. civilians to be executed for espionage.
- 1874: The opera Die Fledermaus (The Bat), composed by Johann Strauss, Jr., premiered in Vienna with the composer conducting and was a brilliant success.
- 1242: The Russian prince Alexander Nevsky defeated the Teutonic Knights in a battle on the frozen Lake Peipus; the battle was re-created in Sergei Eisenstein's classic film Alexander Nevsky (1938).
