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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5" title="April 5">April 5</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrer" title="Vincent Ferrer">Saint Vincent Ferrer</a></b> (Catholicism)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/919" title="919">919</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate" title="Fatimid Caliphate">Fatimid Caliphate</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_invasion_of_Egypt_(919%E2%80%93921)" title="Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921)">a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt</a></b>, then under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid</a> rule.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1614" title="1614">1614</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas" title="Pocahontas">Pocahontas</a></b>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> woman, married English colonist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rolfe" title="John Rolfe">John Rolfe</a>, leading to a period of peace between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan" title="Powhatan">Powhatan people</a> and the inhabitants of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia" title="Jamestown, Virginia">Jamestown, Virginia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944" title="1944">1944</a> – Siegfried Lederer, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Czech_lands" title="History of the Jews in the Czech lands">Czech Jew</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Lederer%27s_escape_from_Auschwitz" title="Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz">escaped from Auschwitz</a></b> with the aid of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Totenkopfverb%C3%A4nde" title="SS-Totenkopfverbände">SS</a> officer who opposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986" title="1986">1986</a> – The Libyan secret service <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing" title="West Berlin discotheque bombing">bombed a discotheque</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin" title="West Berlin">West Berlin</a>, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – The North Korean satellite <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmy%C5%8Fngs%C5%8Fng-2" title="Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2"><span class="nowrap">Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2</span></a></b> was launched from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonghae_Satellite_Launching_Ground" title="Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground">Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground</a> and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile" title="Intercontinental ballistic missile">intercontinental ballistic missiles</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nuwayri" title="Al-Nuwayri">al-Nuwayri</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1279); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thure_de_Thulstrup" title="Thure de Thulstrup">Thure de Thulstrup</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1848); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Rosalie_Cadron-Jett%C3%A9" title="Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté">Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1864); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik" title="Judith Resnik">Judith Resnik</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949)</p>
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