Today is Sunday, April 5, the 95th day of 2015

Today is Sunday, April 5, the 95th day of 2015. There are 270 days left in the year. Today marks the Christian holiday of Easter.

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On this date in:

1614: Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas marries John Rolfe of England in the Virginia Colony.

1764: Britain’s Parliament passes The American Revenue Act of 1764, also known as The Sugar Act.

1887: In Tuscumbia, Ala., teacher Anne Sullivan achieves breakthrough as her 6-year-old deaf-blind pupil, Helen Keller, learns the meaning of the word “water” as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet.

British historian Lord Acton writes in a letter, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

1895: Oscar Wilde loses his criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry, who’d accused the writer of homosexual practices.

1915: Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in the 26th round of their fight in Havana, Cuba, to claim boxing’s world heavyweight title.

1925: A tornado estimated at F-3 intensity strikes northern Miami-Dade County, Fla., killing five people.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order creating the Civilian Conservation Corps.

1955: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns for health reasons.

Democrat Richard J. Daley is first elected mayor of Chicago.

1965: “My Fair Lady” wins the Academy Award for best picture, and one of its stars, Rex Harrison, is named best actor; Julie Andrews wins best actress for “Mary Poppins.”

1976: During an outdoor demonstration against court-ordered school busing in Boston, a white teenager swings a pole holding an American flag at a black attorney in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Stanley Forman of the Boston Herald American.

1986: Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman are killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an incident which prompts a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.

1991: Former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people are killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Ga.

2005: ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings reveals he has lung cancer (he died in August 2005 at age 67).

Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow dies in Brookline, Mass., at age 89.

2010: An explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine near Charleston, W. Va., kills 29 workers.

The WikiLeaks website posts classified video of Apache helicopters gunning down at least nine men in Iraq on July 12, 2007, including a Reuters photographer and his driver.

2014: Millions of Afghans defy Taliban threats and rain as they go to the polls to choose President Hamid Karzai’s successor. (Ashraf Ghani emerges the winner.)

Breanna Stewart, U-Conn’s 6-foot-4 sophomore star, is named The Associated Press Player of the Year. Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw is selected coach of the year for the second straight season.

Award-winning author and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen, 86, dies on Long Island, N.Y.

VINDICATOR FILES

1990: A bomb planted at the rear of the Cafaro Co. office building on Belmont Avenue rocks the North Side, damaging the building and blowing out windows of nearly a dozen homes in the area.

Gov. Richard F. Celeste signs Ohio’s new drunken driving bill that allows on-the-stop confiscation of licenses in some situations, longer sentences and license suspensions and heavier fines for drivers who register 0.10 percent or more on a blood-alcohol test.

Hundreds of public employees, including a contingent from the Mahoning Valley, rally at the Ohio Statehouse for the same federal safety regulations that protect private-industry workers and for the right to be politically active on their own time.

1975: Campbell Police Sgt. Peter Parellis and Patrolman Carl Terek interrupt an armed robbery at the Russo American service station, shoot and wound the suspected robber and release five men who had been locked in a rest room.

Some 3,000 workers at Packard Electric Division in Warren and the Lordstown General Motors complex are among 4,300 furloughed northern Ohioans being recalled by GM.

Twenty-five French students from Cardinal Mooney High School arrive home after being snowbound in Montreal, Canada, during a vacation and study trip. A Lowellville High School group is still in Quebec; an Austintown group was able to get out on treacherous roads before the storm reached full force.

1965: D. Halbe Brown, executive director of Camp Fitch on Lake Erie, announces the appointment of William L. Lyder as director of the Boys’ Camp.

The first annual Northeast Ohio District School Bus Safety Roadeo will be held at Liberty High School. School bus drivers from Mahoning, Trumbull, Summit, Portage and Ashtabula will compete.

1940: After noting that more speeders are exceeding 50 mph, Municipal Judge Robert B. Nevin declares a crackdown and fines five motorists $15 each, plus $8 in court costs.

The cave-in of a mineshaft that has been abandoned for decades causing the closing of South Avenue near Western Reserve Road until the shaft can be filled.

Opening at the Warner theater, Mickey Rooney in MGM’s true drama, “Young Tom Edison.” Playing at the Palace, Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio.”