TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT April 5, 1764

Britain’s Parliament passed The American Revenue Act of 1764, also known as the Sugar Act, which was repealed in 1766. ALSO ON THIS DATE

1614

Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.

1792

President George Washington cast his first veto, rejecting a congressional measure for apportioning representatives among the states.

1887

Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her 6-yearold deaf-blind pupil, Helen Keller, learned the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet. British historian Lord Acton wrote in a letter, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

1933

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Civilian Conservation Corps and an anti-hoarding order that effectively prohibited private ownership of gold.

1964

Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur died in Washington, D.C., at age 84.

1976

Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 70.

1986

Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident which prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.