Damage in Hualien City

• A severe-rated earthquake strikes near Hualien City, Taiwan (damage pictured).
• In Syria, an Israeli airstrike kills 16 people at the Iranian consulate in Damascus, including brigadier general Mohammad Reza Zahedi.
• A bus falls from a bridge in Limpopo, South Africa, killing 45 people.
• The Francis Scott Key Bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore collapses after being hit by a container ship.
• Bassirou Diomaye Faye is elected President of Senegal.

April 5: Feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Catholicism)

Pocahontas

• 919 – The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
• 1614 – Pocahontas (pictured), a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1944 – Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
• 1986 – The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
• 2009 – The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.