Pocahantas married John Rolfe in 1614
Source(s):
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

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I do this pretty much every day when I wake up! I go on Wikipedia and look up the day to see all the historical events and births that have happened on that day. You wouldn't believe how easy it is to start a conversation with just a little info about today. I'll just pick out 3 major ones I told people about today.

1621 - The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.

1792 - U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.

Couldn't find any videos for such old events, but I included some links.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5th
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/voyage5.php
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/presidential/veto.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/5/newsid_2822000/282...

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This is my top 5 from the April 5th Wikipedia article:

1566 - Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.

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.

1956 - Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.

1976 - In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident (not the 1989 protest).
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1987 U.S.A. Fox Broadcasting

5th April 1987 : Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut with Its first prime time shows, starting on Sunday nights beginning April 5, 1987,
A comedy about a dysfunctional family (Married... with Children) ( Which Aired for 11 seasons )

A variety series (The Tracey Ullman Show). Which spawned the longest-running sitcom and animated series in U.S. history: The Simpsons

1951 U.S.A. Rosenberg's Trial

5th April 1951 : At the end of the trial against the Rosenberg's for giving the secrets to the Atomic Bomb to the Soviet Union, death sentences are imposed against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg when found guilty of conspiring to transmit atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Source(s):
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/april5th.html

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April 5th 1998 10th Seniors Golf Tradition:
April 5th 1998 wins Longs Drugs Golf Challenge
April 5th 1992 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
April 5th 1992 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino
April 5th 1992 11th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Stanford beats Western Ky 78-62
April 5th 1992 "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
April 5th 1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
April 5th 1993 Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3
April 5th 1993 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
April 5th 1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0
April 5th 1993 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
April 5th 1993 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71
April 5th 1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs
April 5th 1994 Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
April 5th 1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
April 5th 1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
April 5th 1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
April 5th 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
April 5th 1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
April 5th 1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
April 5th 1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
April 5th 1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
April 5th 1991 US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
April 5th 1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
April 5th 1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
April 5th 1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
April 5th 1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
April 5th 1992 Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice
April 5th 1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
April 5th 1992 Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress
April 5th 1992 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
April 5th 1992 Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
April 5th 1981 Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
April 5th 1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
April 5th 1982 Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season
April 5th 1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
April 5th 1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
April 5th 1983 NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
April 5th 1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
April 5th 1984 "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
April 5th 1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
April 5th 1986 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
April 5th 1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
April 5th 1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
April 5th 1987 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
April 5th 1988 Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate
April 5th 1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
April 5th 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
April 5th 1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
April 5th 1972 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
April 5th 1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
April 5th 1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
April 5th 1974 Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
April 5th 1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
April 5th 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs
April 5th 1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
April 5th 1976 Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London
April 5th 1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
April 5th 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 5th 1979 Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
April 5th 1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
April 5th 1981 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
April 5th 1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
April 5th 1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
April 5th 1964 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
April 5th 1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 5th 1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
April 5th 1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison & J Andrews win
April 5th 1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
April 5th 1967 '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
April 5th 1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
April 5th 1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
April 5th 1968 US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
April 5th 1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
April 5th 1971 WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
April 5th 1971 US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
April 5th 1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
April 5th 1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
April 5th 1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
April 5th 1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
April 5th 1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
April 5th 1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
April 5th 1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
April 5th 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
April 5th 1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
April 5th 1961 Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
April 5th 1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
April 5th 1962 Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in NYC
April 5th 1962 Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp
April 5th 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
April 5th 1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands
April 5th 1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
April 5th 1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
April 5th 1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
April 5th 1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
April 5th 1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
April 5th 1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
April 5th 1941 In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
April 5th 1943 Allies bomb Mortsel
April 5th 1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
April 5th 1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
April 5th 1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
April 5th 1945 Almelo Netherlands freed
April 5th 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
April 5th 1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
April 5th 1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
April 5th 1949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill)
April 5th 1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
April 5th 1915 French begin Wo‰vre-offensive
April 5th 1915 Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
April 5th 1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
April 5th 1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
April 5th 1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana
April 5th 1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
April 5th 1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
April 5th 1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
April 5th 1923 Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production
April 5th 1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
April 5th 1925 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer
April 5th 1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
April 5th 1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
April 5th 1930 England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
April 5th 1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
April 5th 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches" (BG)
April 5th 1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
April 5th 1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
April 5th 1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Empty House" (BG)
April 5th 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG)
April 5th 1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
April 5th 1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
April 5th 1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
April 5th 1902 Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte," premieres in Paris
April 5th 1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland & England kills 25
April 5th 1905 James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London
April 5th 1906 St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
April 5th 1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
April 5th 1911 MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie
April 5th 1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
April 5th 1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)
April 5th 1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
April 5th 1803 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D
April 5th 1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
April 5th 1812 Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish
April 5th 1814 Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
April 5th 1815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
April 5th 1847 Opera "Die Fledermaus" is produced (Vienna)
April 5th 1861 Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx
April 5th 1862 Siege of Yorktown VA
April 5th 1865 Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)
April 5th 1874 Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna
April 5th 1874 "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed (Vienna)
April 5th 1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
April 5th 0823 Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France
April 5th 1058 Bishop John "Minchio," domkop elected as Pope Benedictus X
April 5th 1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
April 5th 1242 Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia
April 5th 1566 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
April 5th 1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
April 5th 1603 New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London
April 5th 1614 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
April 5th 1614 Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
April 5th 1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
April 5th 1648 Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
April 5th 1722 Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
April 5th 1739 French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
April 5th 1751 Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
April 5th 1753 British Museum forms (opens in 1759)
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