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• 1242 - During a battle on the ice of Chudskoye Lake, Russian forces rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
• 1614 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
• 1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth on a return trip to Great Britain.
• 1654 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1792 - United States President George Washington vetos a bill designed to apportion representatives among U.S. states. This is the first time the presidential veto has been used in the United States.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Yorktown (1862) - The battle begins when Union forces under General George McClellan close in on the Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia.
• 1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
• 1951 - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
• 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing heath.
• 1957 - In India, Communists won the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad sworn in as the first chief minister.
• 1973 - Pierre Messmer becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1976 - In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement led to the Tiananmen incident
• 1991 - ASA Embraer EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia killing all 23 aboard.
• 1998 - In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing cost about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
• 1999 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
• 1999 - In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard.

[edit] Today is Arbor Day in South Korea. Pls add. Thanks.

Today is Arbor Day in South Korea. Pls add. Thanks. -- 199.71.174.100 03:18, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Pls add Hansik instead. Thanks. --199.71.174.100 21:35, 25 March 2007 (UTC)