On This Day in History: April 5

She was born around 1596. Pocahontas was her family nickname, for her, meaning "playful one" or "mischievous girl," while her personal name was Matoaka. She was kidnapped by settlers in 1613, during the First Anglo-Powhatan War, she learned English and was Baptized, taking the name Rebecca.
istorian have rejected the idea of a romance between Pocahontas and John Smith labeling the idea as fictional. When they met in 1607, she was approximately. 10–11 years old, while Smith was around 27–28. She later married Englishman planter John Rolfe in April 1614 at roughly age 17 or 18. Pocahontas traveled to England in mid 1616 with her husband John Rolfe, their son, and a group of Powhatan people. The Virginia Company sponsored her trip to promote the colony. She was introduced to King James I and Queen Anne before dying of illness in Gravesend on March 21, 1617, at age 21 or 22, after developing a respiratory illness, as she was preparing to return to Virginia.

The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant, monumental stone statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people. The island had rich soil and a good climate and mostly under cultivation". Later Fossil-pollen analysis shows that the main trees on the island had gone 72 years earlier in 1650.

The letter suggested that the British “should introduce into North America a Government absolutely and entirely Military” to “quiet all the Disturbances in America, procure a decent Revenue from our Colonies, make our royal Master (at least there) a King de facto..." The letter turned out to be prophetic, just one month later North imposed martial law on Massachusetts with the passage of the Massachusetts Government Act, the second of four acts passed by Parliament known together as the Coercive Acts, or the “Intolerable Acts” as most people in Colonies refer to them. The Acts were meant to punish the colonies for their actions of defiance. More

Washington agreed with Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Randolph who also believed the Act would unfairly benefit certain states and create more representatives than prescribed by the Constitution. Congress was unable to override the veto and subsequently passed a new bill that met constitutional standards, which Washington signed on April 14, 1792. Washington vetoed a total of two bills during his two terms. His second veto was a bill to reduce the number of cavalry units in the military. Washington used the veto power only on bills he deemed unconstitutional or directly detrimental to national security, setting a high bar for the exercise of this executive power.

President Eisenhower declined to grant executive clemency to the Rosenbergs, stating: "The nature of the crime for which they have been found guilty and sentenced far exceeds that of the taking of the life of another citizen; it involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation and could very well result in the death of many, many thousands of innocent citizens…" More