5 APRIL

1896 - The  Supreme Council of the Kataastaasan Kagalang-galang na Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK), the secret revolutionary government in the Philippines, informs its members about a huge fire that destroyed the houses of several Katipuneros in Manila, expressing belief that the enemies (colonial Spaniards) caused the fire and so agrees on publishing a pamphlet denouncing this act of arson; the KKK council that has met at the house of  the Physician General Pio Valenzuela in Manila also decides to produce a fund-raising stage show at the Teatro Colon on May 2-3 for the benefit of  the members of the Katipunan affected by the fire.

1614 - Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia, thus ensuring peace between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians for several years during colonial America; Pocahontas will die of small pox the day the couple were about to return to Virginia after having been presented before English King James I.

1963 - During the height of the Cold War, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics accepts the United States proposal to set up an emergency communications hot line to lessen the risk of accidental war; a formal agreement will soon be signed and later in August of the same year, the two countries along with Great Britain will agree on the ban of nuclear weapons testing on the sea and in air.

1986 - A bomb explodes and kills at least 120 people in a crowded discotheque in Berlin, Germany, killing over 40 Americans and around 80 others and injuring more than 200; Libyan connection will be found and the United States will retaliate with an air strike at Libya that would kill the adopted daughter of their leader Muhamar Gaddafi and around 60 others.