April 5: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
2. 1722 - The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
3. 1792 - U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
4. 1804 - High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
5. 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
6. 1900 - Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
7. 1923 - Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
8. 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.
9. 1976 - In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to theTiananmen incident.
10. 2009 - North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
11. Famous Birthdays: Thomas Hobbes (English philosopher), Booker T. Washington (American author and educator), Samuel Cate Prescott (American biologist), Ivar Giaever (Norwegian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate), Colin Powell (American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State)

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