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April 5 is the 95th day of the year (96th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 270 days remain until the end of the year.

History archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

EVENTS

1536 – Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph.

1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.

1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

1795 – Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.[9]

1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.

1943 – World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the residential area hit.

1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

1951 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.

1977 – The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.

2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

2010 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the International Space Station

2018 – Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.

BIRTHS

1595 – John Wilson, English composer and educator (d. 1674)

1726 – Benjamin Harrison V, American politician, planter and merchant (d. 1791)

1827 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon and academic (d. 1912)

1852 – Franz Eckert, German composer and musician (d. 1916)

1856 – Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (d. 1915)

1900 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)

1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)

1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (d. 2001)

1937 – Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (d. 2021)

1973 – Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and rapper

DEATHS

1594 – Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (b. 1533)

1900 – Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)

1921 – Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer and translator (b. 1853)

1923 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866)

1992 – Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (b. 1918)

1998 – Cozy Powell, English drummer (b. 1947)

1999 – Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (b. 1912)

2000 – Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)

2006 – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)

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