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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Today in History

1242
Russian troops repel an invasion by Teutonic knights.
1614
Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1792
George Washington casts the first presidential veto.
1843
Queen Victoria proclaims Hong Kong a British crown colony.
1861
Gideon Welles, the Secretary of the Navy issues official orders for the USS Powhatan to sail to Fort Sumter.
1865
As the Confederate army approaches Appomattox, it skirmishes with Union forces at Amelia Springs and Paine’s Cross Road.
1908
The Japanese Army reaches Yalu River as Russians retreat.
1919
Eamon de Valera becomes president of Ireland.
1930
Mahatma Gandhi defies British law by making salt in India instead of buying it from the British.
1941
German commandos secure docks along the Danube River in preparation for Germany’s invasion of the Balkans.
1943
The British 8th Army attacks the next blocking position of the retreating Axis forces at Wadi Akarit.
1951
Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage.
1955
Winston Churchill resigns as British prime minister.
1986
A bomb explodes in a West Berlin disco packed with American soldiers.

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