History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com
Dorothea Dix 1802, Isoroku Yamamoto 1884, Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) 1913 - Blues singer, guitarist ("Closet to You", "Honey Bee")


Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psycho" series), Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Turner and Hooch", "Stir Crazy", "Poltergeist"), Robert Downey, Jr. 1965 - Actor (Movie: "U.S. Marshals") 

1581 - Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I. A few months earlier he became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world.


1818 - A plan was passsed by the U.S. Congress that the U.S. flag would have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.


1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia.


1914 - The first known serialized moving picture opened in New York City, NY. It was "The Perils of Pauline".


1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.


1918 - The Battle of Somme, an offensive by the British against the German Army ended.


1932 - After five years of research, professor C.G. King, of the University of Pittsburgh, isolated vitamin C.


1945 - During World War II, U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.