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1643 Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar (French: Charles Léopold Nicolas Sixte; German: Karl V Leopold; 3 April 1643 â 18 April 1690) succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697.Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg Monarchy; he played an important role in the 1683-1696 Turkish War that reasserted Habsburg power in South-East Europe and ended his life as an Imperial Field Marshal.
Sybil Ludington (April 5, 1761 â February 26, 1839) was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. On April 26, 1777, at age 16, she made an all-night horseback ride to alert militia forces in the towns of Putnam County, New York, and Danbury, Connecticut, of the approach of British forces. Her story was first published in 1880 by local historian Martha Lamb, to whom it was probably told by Ludington’s descendants. Her book has the earliest known reference to Ludington’s ride. A later reference appeared in an account of her father’s life published in 1907
1822 James Nagle (April 5, 1822 â August 22, 1866) was an officer in the United States Army in both the MexicanâAmerican War and the American Civil War. During the latter conflict, he recruited and commanded four infantry regiments from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and led two different brigades in the Eastern Theater. As the war progressed, worsening health problems precluded prolonged field service, but Nagle is perhaps best known for his actions at the 1862 Battle of Antietam, where his brigade played a key role in securing Burnside’s Bridge, a key crossing over the contested Antietam Creek.
1848 Conrad Ulrich Sigmund Wille (5 April 1848 â 31 January 1925) was the General of the Swiss Army during the First World War. Inspired by the Prussian techniques that he had been able to observe at the time of his studies in Berlin, he attempted to impress the Swiss Army with a spirit based on instruction, discipline and technical control.
1919 John Leslie Munro, (5 APR 1919 â 4 AUG 2015) known as Les, was one of 19 heroic pilots from the famous 617 Squadron who took part in the daring ‘bouncing bomb’ attacks on German dams in 1943. The raids, which saw drum-shaped bombs bounced off the water before exploding against the dam walls, have gone down in history as some of the finest wartime aerial assaults and have also been credited with changing the course of the Second World War.
1937 Colin Luther Powell (born April 5, 1937) is an American politician, diplomat and retired four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. Powell was the first African-American Secretary of State.[3] Prior to the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Powell and his successor, Condoleezza Rice, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the Secretary of State standing fourth in the presidential line of succession). Powell served as the 16th United States National Security Advisor from 1987 to 1989 and as the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
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