On This Day in History

April 5

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​Historical Events​

​1242 Battle on the Ice: Russian Prince of Novgorod Alexander Nevsky defeats the Teutonic Knights on the frozen Lake Peipus between Estonia and Russia

Two Moai on the Rano Raraku crater on Rapa Nui from a 1914-15 expedition photograph held in the British Museum

​1722 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean

​1818 Battle of Maipú: Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, wins a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead

​1847 First civic public park, Birkenhead Park, designed by Joseph Paxton, opens in Birkenhead, England

​1879 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific

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​Famous Birthdays​

​Joseph Lister​ ​1827 - 1912

​Booker T. Washington​ ​1856 - 1915

​Colin Powell​ ​1937 - 2021

​Pharrell Williams​ ​52nd Birthday

Also Thomas Hobbes and Agnetha Fältskog (75)

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​Famous Deaths​

​Georges Danton​ ​1759 - 1794

​Kurt Cobain​ ​1967 - 1994

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​‘I Do’ Says Pocahontas​

Pocahontas, the native American princess regarded by many as the mother of modern America, was married on this day, aged about nineteen, to an English settler

Mother of Modern America