Information about April 5
April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). There are 270 days remaining. Events * 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. * 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. * 1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain. * 1654 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. * 1792 - United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto has been used in the United States. * 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown (1862) - The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia. * 1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt. * 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union. * 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing heath. * 1957 - In India, Communists won the first elections in united Kerala and EMS Namboodiripad sworn in as the first chief minister. * 1998 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing cost about US$3.8 billion, 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. * 1999 - In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard. Births * 1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (+ 1679) * 1827 - Joseph Lister surgeon (+ 1912) * 1856 - Booker T. Washington * 1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (+ 1956) * 1900 - Spencer Tracy, actor (+ 1967) * 1908 - Bette Davis, actress (+ 1989) * 1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (+ 1989) * 1916 - Gregory Peck, actor (+ 2003) * 1922 - Gale Storm, singer/actress * 1937 - Colin Powell, US Secretary of State * 1942 - Peter Greenaway, painter Deaths * 1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller geneticist (+ 1890) * 1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant geneticist (+ 1891) * 1975 - Chiang Kai-shek * 1976 - Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer, film director, eccentric * 1982 - Abe Fortas * 1994 - Kurt Cobain, rock musician * 2002 - Layne Staley, rock musician
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