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April 5: Feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Catholicism)

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919 – The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
1614 – Pocahontas (pictured), a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
1944 – Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
1986 – The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
2009 – The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.

al-Nuwayri (b. 1279)
Thure de Thulstrup (b. 1848)
Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (d. 1864)
Judith Resnik (b. 1949)

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