TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Friday, April 5, the 95th day of 2019. There are 270 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY

On April 5, 1986, two American servicemen and a Turkish woman were killed in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, an attack that prompted a U.S. air raid on Libya more than a week later.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

• Movie producer Roger Corman is 93. • Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is 82. • Actor Michael Moriarty (“Law & Order”) is 78. • Actor Max Gail (“Barney Miller”) is 76. • Actor Mitch Pileggi (“The X-Files”) is 67. • Rock musician Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) is 53. • Actress Victoria Hamilton (“The Crown”) is 48. • Country singer Pat Green is 47. • Rapper-producer Pharrell Williams is 46. • Actor Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”) is 43. • Actress Hayley Atwell (“Agent Carter”) is 37. • Actress Lily James (“Downton Abbey”) is 30.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“I realized a long time ago that a belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.” — Evelyn Scott, American author (1893-1963).

ON THIS DATE

In 1614, Indian Chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony.

In 1955, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned his office for health reasons.

In 1964, Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur died in Washington, D.C., at age 84.

In 1974, Stephen King’s first published novel, “Carrie,” was released by Doubleday.

In 1976, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston at age 70.

In 1991, former Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, his daughter Marian and 21 other people were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.

In 2008, actor Charlton Heston died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 84.