April 5<\/p>\n
1566 \u2013 200 Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma – Governor of the Netherlands – and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.<\/p>\n
1614 \u2013 In Virginia, Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, marries English colonist John Rolfe.<\/p>\n
1621 \u2013 The Mayflower<\/em> sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.<\/p>\n 1722 \u2013 On Easter Sunday, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island. And now you know how it got its name.<\/p>\n 1792 \u2013 President Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill for determining allotment of members in the House of Representatives, the first time this power is used. The veto is not overridden, and Congress rewrites the bill to satisfy the President.<\/p>\n 1879 \u2013 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the 5 year long War of the Pacific.<\/em><\/p>\n 1910 \u2013 The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 Assuming authority under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the Emergency Banking Act in March 1933. President Roosevelt signs executive order 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 An F5 power tornado kills 233 people in Tupelo, Mississippi.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 A fire in St. Anthony’s hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 In the case of Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip, <\/em>the Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people’s reservation terminates the tribe’s jurisdictional authority over the area.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 2 of the 3 people killed\u00a0 and 79 of the 229 injured in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany by Libyan government operatives are U.S. servicemembers<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 29 miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in West Virginia.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 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 U.S. history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 5 1566 \u2013 200 Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma – Governor of the Netherlands – and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces. 1614 \u2013 In Virginia, Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, marries English colonist John Rolfe. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66503"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91570,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66503\/revisions\/91570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}