From Historynet: Today in History April 5

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.