April 5

Today in History
• 1614 - Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
• 1621 - Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
• 1648 - Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
• 1722 - Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
• 1753 - British Museum forms and opens in 1759
• 1768 - 1st U.S. Chamber of Commerce forms (New York City)
• 1792 - George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
• 1806 - Isaac Quintard patents apple cider


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Ming Festival
• Day of Hope
• Erev Pesach (Israel)
• Gold Star Spouses Day
• Holy Wednesday
• National Nebraska Day
• National Walking Day
• Passover

Birthdays
• 1170 - Isabella of Hainault, Queen of France (1180-90)
• 1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi, 93rd Emperor of Japan
• 1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (Viviani's theorem)
• 1643 - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lorraine and Austrian fieldmarshal
• 1761 - Sybil Ludington, American revolutionary heroine
• 1845 - Jules Cambon, French ambassador, to U.S. (1897)
• 1856 - Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator, 1st black on U.S. stamp