On April 6, 1841, John Tyler was sworn in as president. Tyler
was elected as William Harrison’s vice president earlier in
1841 and was suddenly thrust into the role of president when
Harrison died one month into office.

This 1888 engraving depicts a messenger delivering the news of President William Henry Harrison’s death to Vice President John
Tyler at his Williamsburg home on April 5, 1841.

Country music singer and songwriter Tammy Wynette is considered among the genre’s most influential and successful artists.

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.