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April 5, 1995 will be remembered as the day the greatest day known to mankind, and other kinds, which for the personal protection, their names are left out. Exactly 1:13 on a Wednesday afternoon in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. I was born. I was nine pounds, seven ounces, which is pretty big. The weather was cold and very windy, thirty-five degrees, and sunny. I was 21 and half inches tall.

April 5, 1614. Pocahontas marries John Rolfe. The marriage took place in Jamestown. This ensured peace between the Indians (Powhatans) and the English Settlers.

April 5, 1774. Benjamin Franklin wrote "An Open Letter to Lord North". It was a sarcastic letter to the British Prime Minister. It said how he should impose martial law, or have the military control the country.

April 5, 1792. First presidential veto. George Washington exercised the first presidential veto. The bill was to increase the amount of seats in the House of Representatives. It was decided to be unconstitutional, give more seats than what the constitution said they should have.

April 5, 1862. Union forces under George McClellan arrive at Yorktown, Virginia. They established siege lines around Virginia. McClellan sieged instead of going all out, because he was strongly out-numbered against an army of 11,000, his being very small.

April 5, 1931. John Wayne is dropped from Fox. He played mediocre cowboys in many western movies. He won an Oscar in 1969 for his role in the movie: True Grit.

April 5, 1949. Fireside Theater premieres. It is one of TV's first dramatic series. The show consisted of small, 15-minute dramatic stories. Ronald Reagan's wife hosted the show for 3 years.

April 5, 1951. The Rosenbergs are sentenced to death for spying. The couple was accused of passing secret information to the soviets about the atomic bomb. A fellow family member said they stole secret documents, this is false, and they were sentenced to death.

April 5, 1955. Sir Winston Churchill resigns from office. Winston Churchill was the British prime minister who guided Great Britain and their allies through World War II. Sir Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and received a Nobel peace in literature.

April 5, 1976. Howard Hughes dies. Howard Hughs was one of the richest men from the old west. He inherited one million dollars of his dad's estate. His father also passed on his business, Hugh Tools. This was then passed on to Howard Hugh's children.

April 5, 1984.media type="youtube" key="nM2HIUR15s0" height="268" width="309" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks the record for the most career points in Basketball history. He scored his 31,420th point. He also holds the record for most minutes played, clocked in at 54,556, and most blocked shots at 3,189.

April 5, 1987. Wayne Gretsky wins the 7th straight NHL scoring title. Deemed, the Art Ross trophy, for the most points in the league, for that particular year. Gretsky goes on to win the trophy 10 times in his career, but he was on a streak of seven trophies until briefly interrupted by Mario Lemieux.

April 5, 1987. Married with Children premieres. Ed O' Neill starred as Al Bundy. Married with Children was supposed to be parodying the Cosby Show.

April 5, 1992. A pro-choice rally on Washington D.C. Several hundred thousand people were there, which is one of the largest rallies ever. It happened because the U.S. Supreme Court was giving limited access to Pennsylvania abortion rights.

April 5, 1994. Kurt Kobain commits suicide. He could have either shot himself, or he overdosed on Valium and Heroin. He had lethal amounts of heroine in him, and he had shotgun wounds in his head, so whichever got to him first isn't known.

U.S. population as of 1995: 262 million. In comparison to the world population in 1995: 5.7 billion. 1 billion in China alone.

1995: Java Computer language was invented. This is used in programming computers. Its main purpose is in the computer's structure, and internal programming.

DVDs were invented. DVDs store video and data. DVDs store six times more information than do CDs.

President: Bill Clinton and Al Gore. The two did things such as sign the Brady Bill, which put a five-day waiting period when buying handguns. Clinton ended his presidency with a 65% approval rating, which is the highest since president Eisenhower.

World Series Winner: Atlanta Braves. Beat the Cleveland Indians. The score came out to be 4-2. This is the Braves third world series win.

Super bowl winner: Cowboys. The Cowboys beat the Steelers 27-17. This is Dallas’s third win in four years.