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April 5

4 sourced moments from April 5 in history: Pocahontas married John Rolfe and bought Virginia a fragile peace (1614); Jacob Roggeveen sighted Easter Island on Easter Sunday (1722); Churchill Steps Down at Number 10 (1955), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on April 5

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1992 History · War & Conflict

The siege of Sarajevo began, the longest of any capital in modern war

For nearly four years a city in the hills was encircled, shelled, and sniped, but never quite surrendered.

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1955 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Churchill Steps Down at Number 10

On a spring afternoon in 1955, Britain's wartime leader handed in his resignation to a young queen and quietly left the stage.

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1722 Geography · Landmarks & Wonders

Jacob Roggeveen sighted Easter Island on Easter Sunday

Hunting a phantom southern continent, a Dutch fleet stumbled onto one of the most isolated islands on Earth.

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1614 History · Modern

Pocahontas married John Rolfe and bought Virginia a fragile peace

A wedding in a Jamestown church briefly stilled the fighting between English colonists and the Powhatan.

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