Country music singer and songwriter Tammy Wynette is considered among the genre’s most influential and successful artists.
Wynette was plagued by health problems throughout her life. Her
health declined even more in the final years of her life and she
began to look frailer.
Tammy Wynette died from a blood clot in her lung. She was only
55.
In 1931 while looking for a way to keep his company’s shortcake-
baking machinery busy when strawberries are out of season,
manager James Dewar tried injecting one of the cakes with
cream filling. He dubbed his creation the Twinkie.
James Alexander Dewar (1897-1985)
George Washington exercised the first presidential veto of a
Congressional bill on April 5, 1792. The bill introduced a new
plan for dividing seats in the House of Representatives that
would have increased the amount of seats for northern states.
After consulting with his politically divided and contentious
cabinet, Washington, who came from the southern state of
Virginia, ultimately decided that the plan was unconstitutional
because, in providing for additional representatives for some
states, it would have introduced a number of representatives
higher than that prescribed by the Constitution.
MIKE GRACIA
Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)
MacArthur died in Walter Reed Army Medical Center after
surgery on 5 April 1964, of primary biliary cholangitis at
age 84.
On April 5, 1974, Stephen King, a Maine high school teacher
who had been writing on evenings and weekends, saw his
first full-length novel, Carrie, published.
The release by Doubleday & Co. becomes a bestseller and
inspires a movie of the same name. For King, Carrie kicks
off a phenomenal writing career, one in which he would
come to be known worldwide as the Master of Horror.
Many more books have followed since, for a total of more
than 50 novels and novellas.
Stephen Edwin King ,crowned the "King of Horror,"
is 77 years old.
