April 5
1614
Pocahontas married John Rolfe.
1792
George Washington cast the first presidential veto.
1887
Anne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling “water” in the manual alphabet.
1951
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.
1955
Winston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.
1971
Canadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.
1999
Libya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.
Birthdays
Thomas Hobbes
philosopher (1588)
Elihu Yale
merchant (1649)
Joseph Lister
surgeon (1827)
Booker T. Washington
American educator (1856)
Spencer Tracy
actor (1900)
Bette Davis
actress (1908)
Gregory Peck
actor (1916)
Colin Powell
Former general, head of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State (1937)