That night at the theater
An impersonator died
Mr. Booth was tried
I just kept the truth inside
And in the courtroom
The judge will not catch wind of this
Up there on the stand I'll plead the fifth
1942 Stephen Hawking, English physicist and mathematician, was born 1889 US inventor Herman Hollerith patented his tabulator, the first device for data processing his firm would later become one of IBM's founding companies 1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, died 1825 Eli Whitney, US inventor of the cotton gin, died 1886 The Severn Railway Tunnel - Britain's longest - was opened