Today is Friday, April 5, the 95th day of 2019. There are 270 days left in the year.

April 5, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

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On this date in:

1614: Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas marries Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.

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

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

1964: Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur dies in Washington, D.C., at 84.

1976: Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes dies in Houston at 70.

1986: Two American servicemen and a Turkish woman are 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.

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

2001: Wang Zhizhi becomes the first Chinese player to play in the NBA when he takes the court for Dallas against Atlanta.

2005: ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings reveals he has lung cancer.

2008: Actor Charlton Heston, big-screen hero and later leader of the National Rifle Association, dies in Beverly Hills, Calif., at 84.

2018: In his first public comments about Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump says 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 Trump.

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1994: Youngstown police are seeking a man who was involved in an argument with the Rev. Calvin Cox, 64, who was found shot to death in his Berkley Avenue home on the city’s East Side.

Columbiana County Sheriff Richard Koffel said overcrowding at the county jail will mean some prisoners will have to be sent outside the county to serve their time,.

Stock market conditions in the coming days could determine whether the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. will proceed with its plan to go public.

1979: Dr. Lynn Bollinger, a Purdue University professor, says he will initially head the Commuter Aircraft Corp. which is looking for a Mahoning Valley site at which it would build 40-seat turboprop commuter planes.

General Motors introduces its new down-sized compacts for 1980: the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Buick Skylark and Oldsmobile Omega.

The Rev. David Rhodes, chancellor of the Youngstown Diocese, is reassigned to pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Canton, and the Rev. Joseph Tamburrini, pastor of St. Ann, East Palestine, is assigned to St. Lucy Parish, Campbell.

1969: Special programs observing the deaths of Christ and of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., victims of hate in different eras, are held in Youngstown on Good Friday, which was also the first anniversary of King’s assassination.

Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Clyde W. Osborne orders the city of Youngstown to issue licenses to a Cleveland company for its coin-operated peep shows because the law does not permit censorship through refusal to issue a license.

Following a 10-day shutdown to rearrange production facilities, General Motors Corp. Fisher Body-Chevrolet plant is scheduled to resume normal production turning out about 1,000 full-sized cars a day.

1944: Shareholders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. will be asked at the annual meeting to authorize the board of directors to issue up to 300,000 additional shares of common stock.

Eight Youngstown district men are listed as wounded or missing by the War Department: Adam Slipski, Frank Superak, Charles Taggart, Arthur Nulph, William Clark Jr., George Evans Jr., Robert Crandall and Theodore Larson.

Although he has completed 50 missions and come out unscathed, Tech Sgt. William Keller of Youngstown would much rather talk about how he met his cousin, staff Sgt. John Nallon, in Africa recently.