April 5: Feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Catholicism) Pocahontas919 The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.1614 Pocahontas (pictured), a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.1944 Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.1986 The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.2009 The North Korean satellite Kwangmyngsng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.al-Nuwayri (b.1279)Thure de Thulstrup (b.1848)Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jett (d.1864)Judith Resnik (b.1949)More anniversaries: April 4April 5April 6ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout