On this day, April 5
1614 Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.
1621 The Mayflower sailed from Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts on a monthlong return trip to England.
1887 In Tuscumbia, Ala., teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her 6year-old deaf-blind pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet.
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death following their conviction in New York on charges of conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
1986 Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident that prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.
1987 Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut by airing the situation comedy “Married with Children” followed by “The Tracey Ullman Show,” then repeating both premiere episodes two more times in the same evening.
1991 Former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Ga.
2008 Actor Charlton Heston, big-screen hero and later leader of the National Rifle Association, died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 84.
2010 An explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, W.Va., killed 29 workers. In a televised rescue, 115 Chinese coal miners were freed after spending eight days trapped in a flooded mine, surviving an accident that had killed 38.
2013 Kansas legislators gave final passage to a sweeping anti-abortion measure declaring that life began “at fertilization.” (Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, signed the measure two weeks later.) 2018 In his first public comments about Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump said he didn’t know about the $130,000 payment his personal attorney Michael Cohen had made to the porn actress who alleged she had an affair with Mr. Trump. Today’s birthdays: Movie producer Roger Corman, 97. Country singer Tommy Cash, 83. Actor Michael Moriarty, 82. Pop singer Allan Clarke (The Hollies), 81. Writer-director Peter Greenaway, 81. Actor Max Gail, 80. Actor Jane Asher, 77. Singer Agnetha Faltskog (ABBA), 73. Actor Mitch Pileggi, 71. Singer-songwriter Peter Case, 69. Hiphop artist/actor Christopher “Kid” Reid, 59. Rock musician Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), 57. Singer Paula Cole, 55. Actor Krista Allen, 52. Actor Victoria Hamilton, 52. Country singer Pat Green, 51. Rapperproducer Pharrell Williams, 50. Rapper/ producer Juicy J, 48. Actor Sterling K. Brown, 47. Country singer-musician Mike Eli (The Eli Young Band), 42.