Brendan Eich and his First Amendment Rights
Brendan Eich is the co-founder of Mozilla. He was appointed the company's CEO on March 24th of this year. On April 3rd, not even two weeks later he resigned. Here is a statement he issued concerning his choice to step down: ""I have decided to resign as CEO effective today, and leave Mozilla, Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next.”
Why did he leave? Because of severe criticism mounted against him and the company by LGBT groups and others who support marriage rights for same-sex couples. Back in 2008 Eich donated $1,000 in support of Proposition 8, the now failed attempt to ban same-sex marriage in California. He is certainly entitled to hold the political positions he chooses and to donate his own money to any political campaign he wants to support.
There are people out there who believe his First Amendment rights are being trampled on. That's just not so. He's free to express himself as he chooses. So are those who are offended by his expressions. Interesting how it works out that way.
This is precisely why the right way to do campaign finance reform is to make every single dollar that is contributed to political campaigns, PACs, Super-PACs and any other organization/person who is involved in elections identifiable to the person or group that donated it.
A number of businesses found their business suffering after it was revealed that they had supported Prop 8. El Coyote Café on Beverly Boulevard took a big hit after it was revealed that Margie (one of the managers) had donated $100 on a personal basis to the Prop 8 effort. Time seems to have healed most of those wounds but that could not have been easy.
On the other hand, there's nothing to stop those with like minds of political patrons to choose to visit businesses owned and operated by those who they share views with. Many people chose to boycott Chick-Fil-A after their corporate anti-gay/hate-group funding was revealed. At the same time, the lines in their drive-thru lanes and to order from the counter inside Chick-Fil-A locations were longer than ever. Apparently the boycotters were more than offset by those who chose to support what the company was doing.
Fair is fair. I am free to say what I want. Those who disagree are free to say I'm wrong, and if they are my customers, to choose to boycott any business I own or am employed by. I made it clear long ago that the opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent the opinions of any other person or corporation.
The experience of Mr. Eich is a reminder to think through the consequence of any act when you are a public figure.
* * *
I mentioned the term "adverse selection" earlier this week and wanted to get back to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection is a pretty good explanation of the term. It becomes more important as we see Obamacare continuing to be implemented.
The way to make insurance more affordable for all is to get more people to buy it. If the portion of the population that is healthy refused to buy coverage until they need it, only the sick (and prudent) will purchase coverage. This is adverse selection since these are people that insurers will spend more to provide care for than the healthy population that chooses to avoid getting coverage.
It's a pretty easy choice. If you make $100,000 a year and don't get insurance through your employer, should you pay $5,000 a year for a bare-bones policy, or just suck it up and pay the $1,000 fine? What would you do?
Even when we're talking about a nonprofit insurer like Kaiser, the equation remains simple. If costs of providing care to the insured population is more than the amount of premiums collected, the insurer will ultimately fail.
Look at what the exchanges are doing in providing coverage through a group of ten people, all currently in the 25-34 age group. Two had insurance through employers but now the employers have pushed them into getting coverage through the exchange. Two more have purchased coverage through the exchange that they couldn't get before, due to pre-existing conditions that make the annual cost of their care three to four times more than the amount of premiums they will pay. The other six decided to pay the penalty and not get coverage.
If those six were paying premiums in the same monthly range as those two with major health issues, the insurer might actually net a small profit from this group. Without them, it will lose money. Worse yet is the fact that years from now, when those six start developing health issues, they can just buy coverage.
The axiom "united we stand, divided we fall" fits this model.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
A homeless man who hits the cash advance button on an ATM where there is no line of credit gets $700. So he does it again, 52 more times. Is he guilty of a crime? In my eyes he is.
Two kindergarten students are talking on the playground. One says "my mom found a prophylactic on our patio." The other student asks "what's a patio?"
A guy gets busted for trespassing at Selena Gomez's house. Sentenced to 45 days in jail, gets out after just two and where does he go? Right back to her house to trespass again. Lock this guy up!
Just who was John Cougar referring to when he released his fifth album and titled it "American Fool?"
Sally Jessy Raphael says the worst interview subject she ever dealt with on her television show was Woody Allen; because he smelled.
Donald Trump says "Mark Cuban is a lightweight whose net worth is a fraction of mine." True, Mr. Toupee. That fraction is 2/3rds, according to Forbes Magazine. He also says Cuban sucks at golf. I think they should play 18 holes and loser has to shave his head. Or in Trump's case, just put the wig away.
Kristen Stewart has died her hair orange for a role. From what I've seen lately, it wouldn't make her stand out all that much.
I knew Liv Tyler was taller than her rock-star father. But I didn't know they are close enough in size to share clothes.
After five years of doing nothing, it is time for Major League Baseball to force the ownership of the Oakland A's to do something about their stadium.
Clint Eastwood had a #1 country hit? Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l0luZHf_yg
Yes, Los Angeles is a Lakers town, not a Clippers town. That's no reason for fans to boo Chris Paul when he shows up at a Dodgers game.
There is a sick baby 900 miles off the coast of Mexico. CNN and other national media report the story as "Air Guard and Navy to rescue baby" while San Diego news reports "Navy sends ship to rescue baby." Well, San Diego is truly a Navy town, guess that's why they spun it that way. Doesn't change the fact the real heroes are the PJs who parachuted into the Pacific to save the baby. I am in awe of those who make it through pararescue training.
I'll chip in to help pay for some athlete's mouth remedy for Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Sandra Lyon, who firmly inserted foot in mouth about this teacher-student scuffle at Samohi.
* * *
April 5th in History:
823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
1081 – Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1536 – Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: the last Roman triumph.
1566 – Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1710 – The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1804 – High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement – led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín – win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park in Britain, is opened in Birkenhead.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
1932 – Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
1944 – World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation.
1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1976 – In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
1986 – Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and Astronaut Sonny Carter.
1992 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
1994 – American musician Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
1998 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
Famous Folk Born on April 5th:
Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan
Thomas Hobbes
Elihu Yale
Sir Thomas Hardy
Dr. Joseph Lister
Booker T. Washington
Washington Atlee Burpee
Walter Huston
Spencer Tracy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXzT7od_aiI)
Melvyn Douglas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gVa4FAikBg)
Lord Buckley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3vbxeBvaU0)
Bette Davis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63gzaJ1QD8k)
Albert R. Broccoli (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Z2-d_zDZQ)
Gregory Peck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A99ooAeN2Q4)
Arthur Hailey
Christopher Hewett (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM1yqNaRvcY)
Gale Storm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuiAQb_vuCo)
Michael V. Gazzo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZhYJcXh2I)
Nguyen Van Thieu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmbEtelujMI)
Roger Corman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDaxyLfrNk)
Tony Williams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2pEdc1_lI)
Nigel Hawthorne (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33K-ph23Aw)
Billy Bland
Frank Gorshin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YX4d2s0xs)
Barbara Holland
Colin Powell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-vve55FDaU)
Ronald White (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P1x7Yy9CXI he wasn't a Temptation, but he co-wrote this tune)
Allan Clarke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HydvceA1PAI)
Max Gail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Pziay2GzU)
Judith Resnik
Ann C. Crispin
Dean Kamen
Mitch Pileggi
Diamond Dallas Page (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hknAowqjYWg)
Frank Gaffney
Stan Ridgway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw)
Lana Clarkson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97gHuoHCF9o)
Christopher Reid
Mike McReady
Michael A. Monsoor (Medal of Honor recipient)
Why did he leave? Because of severe criticism mounted against him and the company by LGBT groups and others who support marriage rights for same-sex couples. Back in 2008 Eich donated $1,000 in support of Proposition 8, the now failed attempt to ban same-sex marriage in California. He is certainly entitled to hold the political positions he chooses and to donate his own money to any political campaign he wants to support.
There are people out there who believe his First Amendment rights are being trampled on. That's just not so. He's free to express himself as he chooses. So are those who are offended by his expressions. Interesting how it works out that way.
This is precisely why the right way to do campaign finance reform is to make every single dollar that is contributed to political campaigns, PACs, Super-PACs and any other organization/person who is involved in elections identifiable to the person or group that donated it.
A number of businesses found their business suffering after it was revealed that they had supported Prop 8. El Coyote Café on Beverly Boulevard took a big hit after it was revealed that Margie (one of the managers) had donated $100 on a personal basis to the Prop 8 effort. Time seems to have healed most of those wounds but that could not have been easy.
On the other hand, there's nothing to stop those with like minds of political patrons to choose to visit businesses owned and operated by those who they share views with. Many people chose to boycott Chick-Fil-A after their corporate anti-gay/hate-group funding was revealed. At the same time, the lines in their drive-thru lanes and to order from the counter inside Chick-Fil-A locations were longer than ever. Apparently the boycotters were more than offset by those who chose to support what the company was doing.
Fair is fair. I am free to say what I want. Those who disagree are free to say I'm wrong, and if they are my customers, to choose to boycott any business I own or am employed by. I made it clear long ago that the opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent the opinions of any other person or corporation.
The experience of Mr. Eich is a reminder to think through the consequence of any act when you are a public figure.
* * *
I mentioned the term "adverse selection" earlier this week and wanted to get back to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection is a pretty good explanation of the term. It becomes more important as we see Obamacare continuing to be implemented.
The way to make insurance more affordable for all is to get more people to buy it. If the portion of the population that is healthy refused to buy coverage until they need it, only the sick (and prudent) will purchase coverage. This is adverse selection since these are people that insurers will spend more to provide care for than the healthy population that chooses to avoid getting coverage.
It's a pretty easy choice. If you make $100,000 a year and don't get insurance through your employer, should you pay $5,000 a year for a bare-bones policy, or just suck it up and pay the $1,000 fine? What would you do?
Even when we're talking about a nonprofit insurer like Kaiser, the equation remains simple. If costs of providing care to the insured population is more than the amount of premiums collected, the insurer will ultimately fail.
Look at what the exchanges are doing in providing coverage through a group of ten people, all currently in the 25-34 age group. Two had insurance through employers but now the employers have pushed them into getting coverage through the exchange. Two more have purchased coverage through the exchange that they couldn't get before, due to pre-existing conditions that make the annual cost of their care three to four times more than the amount of premiums they will pay. The other six decided to pay the penalty and not get coverage.
If those six were paying premiums in the same monthly range as those two with major health issues, the insurer might actually net a small profit from this group. Without them, it will lose money. Worse yet is the fact that years from now, when those six start developing health issues, they can just buy coverage.
The axiom "united we stand, divided we fall" fits this model.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
A homeless man who hits the cash advance button on an ATM where there is no line of credit gets $700. So he does it again, 52 more times. Is he guilty of a crime? In my eyes he is.
Two kindergarten students are talking on the playground. One says "my mom found a prophylactic on our patio." The other student asks "what's a patio?"
A guy gets busted for trespassing at Selena Gomez's house. Sentenced to 45 days in jail, gets out after just two and where does he go? Right back to her house to trespass again. Lock this guy up!
Just who was John Cougar referring to when he released his fifth album and titled it "American Fool?"
Sally Jessy Raphael says the worst interview subject she ever dealt with on her television show was Woody Allen; because he smelled.
Donald Trump says "Mark Cuban is a lightweight whose net worth is a fraction of mine." True, Mr. Toupee. That fraction is 2/3rds, according to Forbes Magazine. He also says Cuban sucks at golf. I think they should play 18 holes and loser has to shave his head. Or in Trump's case, just put the wig away.
Kristen Stewart has died her hair orange for a role. From what I've seen lately, it wouldn't make her stand out all that much.
I knew Liv Tyler was taller than her rock-star father. But I didn't know they are close enough in size to share clothes.
After five years of doing nothing, it is time for Major League Baseball to force the ownership of the Oakland A's to do something about their stadium.
Clint Eastwood had a #1 country hit? Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l0luZHf_yg
Yes, Los Angeles is a Lakers town, not a Clippers town. That's no reason for fans to boo Chris Paul when he shows up at a Dodgers game.
There is a sick baby 900 miles off the coast of Mexico. CNN and other national media report the story as "Air Guard and Navy to rescue baby" while San Diego news reports "Navy sends ship to rescue baby." Well, San Diego is truly a Navy town, guess that's why they spun it that way. Doesn't change the fact the real heroes are the PJs who parachuted into the Pacific to save the baby. I am in awe of those who make it through pararescue training.
I'll chip in to help pay for some athlete's mouth remedy for Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Sandra Lyon, who firmly inserted foot in mouth about this teacher-student scuffle at Samohi.
* * *
April 5th in History:
823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
1081 – Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
1536 – Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: the last Roman triumph.
1566 – Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1710 – The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
1722 – The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1804 – High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement – led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín – win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park in Britain, is opened in Birkenhead.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
1932 – Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1943 – World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
1944 – World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
1946 – Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation.
1949 – Fireside Theater debuts on television.
1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
1956 – In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1976 – In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
1986 – Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and Astronaut Sonny Carter.
1992 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
1992 – The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
1994 – American musician Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
1998 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
Famous Folk Born on April 5th:
Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan
Thomas Hobbes
Elihu Yale
Sir Thomas Hardy
Dr. Joseph Lister
Booker T. Washington
Washington Atlee Burpee
Walter Huston
Spencer Tracy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXzT7od_aiI)
Melvyn Douglas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gVa4FAikBg)
Lord Buckley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3vbxeBvaU0)
Bette Davis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63gzaJ1QD8k)
Albert R. Broccoli (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Z2-d_zDZQ)
Gregory Peck (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A99ooAeN2Q4)
Arthur Hailey
Christopher Hewett (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM1yqNaRvcY)
Gale Storm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuiAQb_vuCo)
Michael V. Gazzo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZhYJcXh2I)
Nguyen Van Thieu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmbEtelujMI)
Roger Corman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDaxyLfrNk)
Tony Williams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2pEdc1_lI)
Nigel Hawthorne (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33K-ph23Aw)
Billy Bland
Frank Gorshin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YX4d2s0xs)
Barbara Holland
Colin Powell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-vve55FDaU)
Ronald White (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P1x7Yy9CXI he wasn't a Temptation, but he co-wrote this tune)
Allan Clarke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HydvceA1PAI)
Max Gail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Pziay2GzU)
Judith Resnik
Ann C. Crispin
Dean Kamen
Mitch Pileggi
Diamond Dallas Page (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hknAowqjYWg)
Frank Gaffney
Stan Ridgway (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw)
Lana Clarkson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97gHuoHCF9o)
Christopher Reid
Mike McReady
Michael A. Monsoor (Medal of Honor recipient)
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