April 5<\/p>\n
1614
\nPocahontas married John Rolfe.<\/p>\n
1792
\nGeorge Washington cast the first presidential veto.<\/p>\n
1887
\nAnne Sullivan makes the breakthrough to Helen Keller by spelling “water” in the manual alphabet.<\/p>\n
1951
\nJulius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for giving away atomic secrets to the Russians.<\/p>\n
1955
\nWinston Churchill resigned as prime minister of Britain.<\/p>\n
1971
\nCanadian Fran Phipps became the first woman to reach the North Pole.<\/p>\n
1999
\nLibya gave over two suspects in the Lockerbie, Scotland Pan Am bombing.<\/p>\n
Birthdays<\/p>\n
Thomas Hobbes
\nphilosopher (1588)<\/p>\n
Elihu Yale
\nmerchant (1649)<\/p>\n
Joseph Lister
\nsurgeon (1827)<\/p>\n
Booker T. Washington
\nAmerican educator (1856)<\/p>\n
Spencer Tracy
\nactor (1900)<\/p>\n
Bette Davis
\nactress (1908)<\/p>\n
Gregory Peck
\nactor (1916)<\/p>\n
Colin Powell
\nFormer general, head of the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of State (1937)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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