Today In History: Trump Loses Wisconsin Primary To Ted Cruz; Beach Boys Banned From White House Concert

April 5, 2017, is the 95th day of the year, with 270 days remaining. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase, with illumination at 69 percent.

Ted Cruz wins Wisconsin primary by a landslide

Wisconsin voters took to the polls on a Tuesday in 2016 to cast their vote for the nominee for the 45th president of the United States.

Exit-poll analyses were in, revealing that 40 percent of voters would like to have seen a contested convention, and almost 60 percent of voters were excited or otherwise optimistic about Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Thirty-three percent of voters had decided upon a candidate in recent days, with 38 percent of voters identifying as evangelical Christian. Forty-eight percent believed that the United States should be more active in world affairs, and 31 percent identified as “very conservative," with 24 percent as “moderate.” Moreover, nearly half of all Wisconsin voters wanted a nominee with experience in government.

And in the end, that was exactly what Wisconsin received, as Cruz triumphed with 531,129 votes and 36 delegates, with Donald Trump garnering 386,290 votes and six delegates.

“Let me just say,” said Cruz. “Hillary, get ready. Here we come!”

Beach Boys banned from White House's Fourth of July concert

Interior Secretary James G. Watt, under President Reagan, drew political criticism and public outrage when, on some idle Tuesday in 1983, he banned the Beach Boys — whose pinnacle of fame stretched from the mid-1960s into the 1970s — from Fourth of July festivities at the National Mall in DC. The renowned group had previously performed at Independence Day concerts at the National Mall from 1980 to 1982, attracting large crowds.

Watt claimed that such groups attracted “the wrong element,” specifically citing drug use and alcoholism, but both Mr. and Mrs. Reagan were fans of the rock band quintet. The president delivered to Watt a plaster foot with a hole in it, indicating that the interior secretary had shot himself in the proverbial foot.

The band returned to the nation’s capital for Independence Day in 1984, performing in front of a crowd of 750,000 people, and in 2008, Time magazine named Watt among the 10 worst Cabinet members in modern history.

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