#OTD in 1856, Booker T. Washington, the African-American educator, author, and orator was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

His books at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/880

5 Apr 1659: b. Edward Synge, future Church of Ireland Archbishop of Tuam at Inishannon Co. #Cork #otd (Speckled Bird)

5 Apr 1544: Easter Sunday, Reginald Pole #English cardinal prepares to leave #Rome for the Council of #Trent #otd (Lambeth Palace)

5 Apr 1568: Humphrey Llwyd #Welsh antiquarian sends his work on #druids of #Anglesey Ynys Môn to Ortelius #otd who then published it

5 Apr 1621: Andrew Marvell, #poet, MP, baptized at Winestead, East #Yorks (TCC) #otd.

#OTD in #OrganizedCrime #History: murder victim found on #StatenIsland, Buonomo mortally wounded in #EastHarlem, Nick Gentile returns to U.S., mafiosi meet in #Buffalo, gangster is charged with cop-killing, journalist is blinded with acid, lawsuit is filed over #Marcello deportation.

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

#OTD in 1859.

Charles Darwin sent John Murray the first three chapters, and a proposal for the book's title. An early draft title page suggests On the Mutability of Species. In September the main title still included "An essay on the origin of species and varieties", but Darwin now proposed dropping "varieties".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species

On the Origin of Species at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228

5 Apr 1605: d. John Stow, 'father of #London history' #otd

Every 5 years the incumbent Lord Mayor gives him a new quill. Stow is buried in St Andrew Undershaft.

5 Apr 1614: Pocahontas (Rebecca) marries John Rolfe #otd (BM)

5 Apr 1671: The body of Anne Hyde, Duchess of #York, wife of James (II) is interred #otd in the Mary Queen of #Scots vault at #Westminster Abbey (National Trust images)

Thomas Hobbes, 1640s.
Hobbes was born #otd 5 Apr 1588.

Portrait By William Dobson (bapt. 4 Mar 1611, buried 28 Oct 1646)

The Royal Society

5 Apr 1617: b. Seth Ward, future bishop, who became the first Savilian Professor of #Astronomy at #Oxford to teach Copernicus #otd (TCO)

5 Apr 1532: Robert Hobbes, abbot of #Woburn, is commissioned #otd as one of the 'general reformers' by Henry VIII to hold a visitation of the #Cistercian order (BM)

5 Apr 1682: ex-#Jesuit convert Andrew Sall buried at #Oxmantown #Dublin #otd Sall worked on William Bedell's (d.1642) #Gaelic #Bible for Robert Boyle & Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (eebo)

5 Apr 1617: James VI & I increases the salary of William Segar as Garter King of Arms from £50 to £60 #otd Segar was also a portrait painter - here's his Walter Ralegh, from the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

5 Apr 1660: Edward Hyde (later Earl of Clarendon) arrives at #Breda #otd to join Charles II - they sailed for #England on 22 May (NPG)

#Hörtipp
#OTD #20250405date
#ZeitzeichenWDR #WDR #Zeitzeichen
Ein Vulkanausbruch, Schauergeschichten und - das Fahrrad https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-ein-vulkanausbruch-schauergeschichten-und---das-fahrrad-100.html (@wikinaut)

#Hörtipp
#OTD #20250405date
#KalenderblattDLF #DLF #Kalenderblatt
Taiwan - Tod eines Diktators https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/05-04-1975-taiwans-diktator-chiang-kai-shek-gestorben-100.html (@wikinaut)

Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women?

#OnThisDay, 5 Apr 1992, Suada Dilberović, a Muslim, and Olga Sučić, a Catholic, were killed whilst on a peace protest in Sarajevo during the outbreak of the Bosnian war. They are the first civilian casualties in what became the Siege of Sarajevo. The siege lasted 1,425 days, and over 5,000 civilians were killed during it.

The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.

#OnthisDay, 5 Apr 1971, Frances Phipps was the first woman to reach the North Pole, flying crew on a small plane to install a navigation beacon.