05/04/10

St. Patrick returned to Ireland as a missionary in 456.  Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614.  The first civic public park opened in 1874 in Birkenhead.  Mahatma Gandhi was arrested for making salt in 1930.

Born today:  Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Joseph Lister (1827-1912), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), Betty Davis (1908-1989), Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), Gregory Peck (1916-2003), Nigel Hawthorne (1929-2001), Jane Asher (1946) and Agnetha Fältskog (1950).

It is Hansik in Korea.