Your Birthday: The History of

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April 5th

This year it was the Easter Monday

456 – St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
1792 – U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1930 – In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1976 – In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.


Births

1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
1937 – Colin Powell, U.S. Army General, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and 65th Secretary of State
1973 – Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)


Deaths

1964 – General Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
1976 – Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
1994 – Kurt Cobain, musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)