The K-12 TLC Daily Almanac

for

		APRIL 5

Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching

Why do you teach? Let Us Know.		Tell Us about your most memorable teacher.

Today's 5-Minute Quest

Answers to all questions can be found on this page or by using links provided on this page.
Good Luck!

BEGINNERS

1. Who did John Rolfe marry on this date in 1614? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. In which state was Richard Peck born? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

3. According to the History Channel, where was Booker T. Washington born? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author or illustrator born on this date: SAGA AWES YOU

INTERMEDIATE

1. April 5th is Arbor Day in what country? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. According to Fordham University, where did Joseph Lister receive his general education? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

3. According to Ohio Reading Trip, HM Hoover's parents shared the same occupation. What was it? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the name of an actor or actress born on this date:
SAVE TED BIT

EXPERT
(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)

1. According to Oregon State University, Thomas Hobbes' premature birth was hastened by his mother's fear of what?

2. According to Scholastic, from which high school did Colin Powell graduate?

3. According to the History Channel, Chiang Kai-Shek was President of what government from 1928 to 1949?

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a book by Richard Peck:
DANA DWYER ROONEY

Joseph Lister Born on This Date 1827 [San Jose State University]	Booker T. Washington Born on This Date 1856 [National Park Service]	Richard Peck Born on This Date 1934 [SCBWI]	HM Hoover Born on This Date 1935 [Gale Group]	Colin Powell Born on This Date 1937 [ALA]


Taiwan: Ching Ming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day) (Observed on April 5 to commemorate the passing of former President Chiang Kai-shek: 04/05/1975)
South Korea: Shik Mok Il (Arbor Day) (Observed annually on April 5)



1917	Robert Bloch (Chicago-born Children's Author)
1933	Yasuo Segawa (Japanese Children's Author, Illustrator)
1934	Richard Peck (Illinois-born Children's Author Awarded the 2001 Newbery Medal for A "Year Down Yonder")
1935	HM Hoover (Ohio-born Children's Author)
1944	Lurlene McDaniel (Pennsylvania-born Children's Author)

1837	Charles Algernon Swinburne (English Poet)
1908	Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (New York-born Author)
1904	Richard Eberhart (Minnesota-born Author, Poet Awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry)
1910	Chaim Grade (Russian-born Yiddish Poet, Short-Story Writer, Novelist)
1920	Arthur Hailey (English Author)
1926	Joseph Rykwert (Polish Author)
1929	Hugo Claus (Belgian Author)

1732	Jean-Honore Fragonard (French Rococo Painter)

1908	Herbert von Karajan (Austrian Conductor) )
1917	Richard Yardumian (Pennsylvania-born Composer)

1949	Judith Resnik (Ohio-born Astronaut)
1950	Franklin R. Chang-Díaz (Costa Rican-born Astronaut)

1827	Joseph Lister (English Physician, Scientist)

1649	Elihu Yale (Massachusetts-born Philanthropist, Namesake of Yale University )
1865	Lincoln Filene (Massachusetts-born Chairman of Federated Department Stores)

1588	Thomas Hobbes (English Philosopher)	$Mathematics$
1801	Vincenzo Gioberti (Italian Philosopher, Politician, Cleric)
1816	Samuel F. Miller (Kentucky-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
1839	Robert Smalls (South Carolina Slave, African-American Naval Captain, State Legislator, U.S. Congressman)
1856	Robert Raikes (English Philanthropist and Founder of the Sunday School Concept)
1856	Booker T. Washington (Virginia-born African-American Educator and Rights Activist)
1901	Chester Bowles (Massachusetts-born Advertising Executive, American Diplomat)
1908	Jagjivan Ram (Indian Politician, Rights Activist, Spokesman for the Untouchables)
1923	Nguyen Van Thieu (President of South Vietnam)
1937	Colin Powell (New York-born African-American Statesman, Military Leader)

1900	Melvyn Douglas (Georgia-born Actor)
1900	Spencer Tracy (Wisconsin-born Actor)
1908	Bette Davis (Massachusetts-born Actor)
1914	George Reeves (Iowa-born Actor, The Original Superman on Television)
1916	Gregory Peck (California-born Actor)
1922	Gale Storm (Texas-born Actor)
1926	Roger Corman (California-born Film Director, Producer)
1934	Frank Gorshin (Pennsylvania-born Actor)
1950	Agnetha Fältskog (Swedish Singer: ABBA)

1871	Glenn "Pop" Warner (New York-born Coach, Member of the College Football Hall-of-Fame)
1915	John McLendon (Kansas-born African-American Coach, Member of the Basketball Hall-of-Fame)

1964	Douglas MacArthur (Arkansas-born Military Leader)
1967	Herman Muller (New York City-born 1946 Nobel Laureate for Medicine or Physiology)
1975	Chiang Kai-Shek (Chinese Political Leader)
1976	Howard Hughes (Texas-born Aviator, Business Leader)
1981	Mark Foster Ethridge (Mississippi-born Journalist, Publisher)
1982	Abe Fortas (Tennessee-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
1992	Sam Walton (Oklahoma Business Leader: Founder of Wal-Mart)
1994	Kurt Cobain (Washington-born Rock Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist: Suicide)
1997	Allen Ginsberg (New Jersey-born Poet)
2005	Saul Bellow (Canadian Author)


1614	Pocahontas Marries English Colonist John Rolfe in Virginia
1621	The Mayflower Sets Sail for Return Trip to England

1768	20 Merchants Found America's First Chamber of Commerce Is Formed in New York City
1774	Benjamin Franklin Publishes "An Open Letter to Lord North"
1778	Shawnee Indians Take Daniel Boone to Detroit as a British Prisoner
1792	George Washington Issues First Presidential Veto

1805	Clark: we have our 2 perogues & Six Canoes loaded with our Stores & provisions, principally provisions. the wind verry high from the N W. a number of Mandans visit us to day Ordway: clear and pleasant. we Sorted all our loading and divided a proportion of each Sort for each perogue, and loaded all the perogues and got ready for a Start, on our Journey. the wind high from the N. W.— .
1806	Lewis: This morning was so cloudy that I could not obtain any lunar observations with Aquila as I wished. Joseph Fields and Drewyer departed this morning agreeably to their orders of last evening. at 9 A. M. we Sent Sergt. Ordway and a party to assist Sergt. Pryor in bringing in the meat of four Elk which he had dryed. at 1 P. M the party returned with the meat. it had been so illy dryed that we feared it would not keep. we therefore directed it to be cut thinner and redryed over a fire this evening, as we purpose setting out early in the morning. the deerskins which we have had cased for the purpose of containing our dryed meat are not themselves sufficiently dryed for that purpose, we directed them to be dryed by the fire also. the weather has been so damp that there was no possibility of pounding the meat as I wished.— we were visited today by several parties of the natives as usual; they behaved themselves in a very orderly manner. Observed Magnetic Azimuth and altitude of the with Circumferenter and Sextant. immediately after this observation the sun was suddenly obscured by a cloud and prevented my taking Equal Alitudes. I therefore had recourse to two altitudes in the evening which I obtained as the sun happened to shine a few minutes together through the passing clouds. Saw the Log cock [pileated woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus], the hummingbird, gees ducks &c today. the tick has made it's appearance it is the same with those of the Atlantic States. the Musquetoes have also appeared but are not yet troublesome.— this morning at 10 OClock Sergt. Gass returned with Collins and Windsor they had not succeeded in killing the female bear tho' they brought the three cubs with them. the Indians who visited us today fancyed these petts and gave us wappetoe in exchange for them. Drewyer informed me that he never knew a female bear return to her young when they had been allarmed by a person and once compelled to leave them. The dogwood grows abundantly on the uplands in this neighbourhood. it differs from that of the United States in the appearance of it's bark which is much smoother, it also arrives here to much greater size than I ever observed it elsewhere sometimes the stem is nearly 2 feet in diameter. we measured a fallen tree of fir No. 1 which was 318 feet including the stump which was about 6 feet high. this tree was only about 3 ½ feet in diameter. we saw the martin, small gees, the small speckled woodpecker with a white back, the Blue crested Corvus, ravens, crows, eagles Vultures and hawks. the mellow bug and long leged spider have appeared, as have also the butterfly blowing fly and many other insects. I observe not any among them which appear to differ from those of our country or which deserve particular notice.— Ordway: Sergt. Gass & 2 other of the hunters returnd. with 3 Small black cubs which was sold to the Savages I and 5 more men went over to the S. Side and climbed a high River hill on which is excelent rich land. went to the Camp of our hunters and brought in the meat. three more hunters Sent on a head with their Small canoe a hunting great numbers of Savages visited the Camp continually Since we have lay in at this Camp, who were passing down with their famillys from the country above into the vally of Columbia in Search of food. they inform us that the natives above the great falls have no provisions and many are dieing with hunger. this information has been so repeatedly given by different parties of Indians that it does not admit of any doubt and is the cause of our delay in this neighbourhood for the purpose of procureing as much dryed Elk meat as will last us through the Columbia plains in which we do not expect to find any thing to kill &C. the River hills are high above Quick Sand River Some of the clifts is 200 feet high. on the tops of those hills the land is excessively rich and thickly timbred with different Species of Fir intermixed with white cedder. I Saw one of the Fir trees which is 100 and 4 feet in length.
1805	Count Nikolai Rezanov Arrives at the San Francisco Presidio Aboard the Russian Brig Juno Hoping to Establish Trade Relations with the Spanish
1824	The United States and Russia Sign a Convention Opening the North Pacific to Fishing and Trade
1830	In Boston. William J. Snelling Publishes Tales of the Northwest, the First Work of Fiction Set in Minnesota
1849	A Wagon Train Leaves Fort Smith, Arkansas for the California Gold Fields
1853	Iowa School for the Blind Opens in Iowa City
1859	Darwin Completes First Three Chapters of Origin of Species
1860	Wisconsin Congressman and Abolitionist, John F. Potter, Is Challenged to a Duel by Virginia Representative Roger Pryor
1861	The 1st Florida Infantry Regiment (500 Men) Is Mustered into Confederate Service in Chattahoochee
1861	7-day Mail Service Is Initiated Between Sacramento, California and Portland, Oregon
1862	McClellan's Union Troops Place Yorktown, Virginia under Siege
1863	President Lincoln Visits with General Hooker at Falmouth, Virginia
1864	President Lincoln Responds to Petition from Mrs. Horace Mann That All Slave Children Be Freed
1864	President and Mrs. Lincoln Attend a Performance of Flotow's Opera "Martha" at Grover's Theatre
1865	President Lincoln Returns to City Point, Virginia from Richmond
1873	Garland County, Arkansas Is Founded
1874	Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. Is First Performed in Vienna
1881	Patent Granted for a Centrifugal Separator --the Creamer
1885	Fire Destroys the First Hospital in Forth Worth, Texas
1887	Annie Sullivan Teaches Helen Keller the Meaning of W-A-T-E-R
1892	English Literary Journal Black and White Publishes "The Real Thing," a Short Story by Henry James
1894	Connellsville, Pennsylvania Miners Strike Turns Violent, Killing 11
1894	Florida's Melbourne Times Is First Published
1895	Chi Omega Sorority Is Founded at the University of Arkansas

1900	Attempted Assassination of Prince of Wales Fails in Belgium
1909	The Neurological Institute of New York Opens with Alexander H. Candlish, Director
1916	Congress Hears Testimony in Favor of Establishing a National Park Service
1917	Women Gain Voting Rights in British Columbia, Canada
1917	The First Airplanes Land at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas
1918	Germans Abandon Their Positions Ending the Battle of Somme
1925	William Faulkner Publishes "Cheest," in the New Orleans Times-Picayune
1925	Ellen Glasgow's "Van Doren on Cabell" Appears in the New York Herald Tribune
1926	H.L. Mencken Is Arrested for Selling a Magazine That Has Been Banned in Boston
1929	A Tornado Kills Three People in Minnesota
1931	Fox Studios Drops John Wayne As Unpromising Talent
1933	Public Is Required to Return All Gold Coins to the Government
1936	Tornado Levels Tupelo, Mississippi: 216 Die
1937	200 Protestors Occupy the Minnesota State Capitol Demonstrating for a Depression Relief Bill
1943	Aircraft Carrier Casablanca Is Launched from the Kaiser Shipyard in Vancouver, Washington
1945	Yugoslavia's Tito Signs "Friendship" Treaty with the Soviet Union

1951	Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Are Sentenced to Die for Espionage
1955	Winston Churchill Resigns as Prime Minister of Britain
1955	Richard J. Daley Becomes Mayor of Chicago
1968	Atlanta, Georgia Prepares for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Funeral
1969	100,000 Anti-War Demonstrators March in New York City
1970	Guerrillas of the Rebel Armed Forces Murder West Germany's Ambassador to Guatemala
1971	Seattle City Council Gives Preliminary Approval for a New City Aquarium
1973	U.S. Launches Pioneer 11 to Jupiter, Saturn and Beyond
1976	James Callaghan Wins the Labour Leadership to Become Britain's New Prime Minister
1984	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Becomes the Highest-scoring Player in NBA History: 31,421 Career Points
1985	8,000 Radio Stations Simultaneously Play "We Are the World"
1986	5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 16 and Destroys 2,000 Houses in the Cuzco, Peru Area
1986	Bomb Kills Two Americans in West Berlin Discotheque
1987	Fox Broadcasting Makes Its Prime-Time TV Debut
1988	Islamic Terrorists Hijack a Kuwaiti Jumbo Jet, Beginning a 16-day International Hostage Crisis
1988	Tracy Chapman Releases "Fast Car"
1989	Polish Round Table Legalizes Solidarity, Schedules Multi-party Elections
1991	U.S. Begins Air Drops to Kurdish Refugees in Northern Iraq
	Former Texas Senator, John Tower, and 22 Others Die in Georgia Commuter Plane Crash
	NASA Launches Space Shuttle Atlantis and Deploys 17-ton Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
1992	Abortion Rights Advocates March on Washington, D.C.
1993	Newly Formed Florida Marlins Baseball Team Plays Its First Game, Defeating the Dodgers 6-3
1994	Penguin Publishing Pays $2.5M for Rights to Bill Gates' Road Ahead
1999	Libya Surrenders Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Suspects to U.N. Representatives

2000	Yoshiro Mori Is Elected President of Japan's Ruling Liberal Democratic Party
2010	29 Die in West Virginia Coal Mine Explosion

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