April 5: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

April 5th marks the 95th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 96th in case of leap years). There are 270 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Pharrell Williams (1973), Bette Davis (1908) and Agnetha Faltskog (1950). Holidays and observances around the world include: International Day of Conscience.
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Holidays

Saint Vincent Ferrer
Arbor Day in South Korea
Saint Geeraard
The last day of the tax year in the United Kingdom.
Blessed Kreszentia Hoess
Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar
Mauritius: Ougadi.
Saint Irena (d. 304)
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Events

2019 The Libyan National Army troops reached the outskirts Tripoli to secure a critical military checkpoint called "Bridge 27".
2018 2018 Gaza border protests. The Israeli Defence Forces released footage of a man who was shot dead trying to break the Gazan border fence. Israel claims he was carrying an AK47 and explosives, including grenades. It also accused Hamas "playing with fire".
2017 War in North-West Pakistan. A suicide bomber kills at most six people and injures 18 others near a Pakistan Army vehicle participating in the census in Lahore.
2016 Syrian Civil War: Al-Nusra Front militants shoot a Sukhoi Su-22 fighter plane of the Syrian Arab Air Force and capture its pilot in northern Aleppo Governorate.
2015 Attack on Garissa University College: Two al Shabaab bases were bombed by the Kenyan Air Force in response to Garissa University College's attack last week.
2014 2014 Aswan tribal clashes :: 23 people were killed in a gunfight among feuding tribes close to Aswan, Egypt.
2013 Mexican Drug War: A recent report from Stratfor shows that at least 60 people were killed during the Mexican Drug War. This was after Mario Ramirez Trevino and Miguel El Gringo Villarreal, leaders of the Gulf Cartel, fought for control.
2012 The Israeli city of Eilat was hit by a rocket from Egypt's Sinai Desert, but it did not cause any injuries or property damage.
2011 Ivorian crisis 2010-2011:
2010 29 people were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine South coal mine in Raleigh County in West Virginia.
2009 North Korea launches the controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 missile. The satellite flew over Japan, prompting immediate reactions from the United Nations Security Council and participating states in Six-party negotiations.
2008 Charlton Heston, born John Charles Carter, is an American actor (Moses, The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes), and activist (1960s Civil Rights and National Rifle Association). He dies in Beverly Hills at the age of 84. Heston was awarded the Best Actor Academy Award in Ben Hur. Heston was also president of Screen Actors Guild, and chairman of American Film Institute.
2007 Georgia creates a Provisional Administrative entity in South Ossetia.
2006 Scientists in the United States have successfully implanted artificial bladders, or artificial urinary bladders, that were grown from cells taken from patients.
2005 Zachary Hall Day, Valdosta Georgia USA
2004 Paul Bremer asserts that militant Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr was an outlaw, and warns that there will be no tolerance for uprisings led by him and his followers.
2003 The Senate of Belgium approves the amendment to the nation's war crime law. It will now not apply to citizens of countries with adequate human rights laws. The House of Representatives already approved the amendment. This law was used to indict people such as Colin Powell, George H. W. Bush and Ariel Sharon for war crimes and interfered with Belgium’s international relations.
2002 Layne Staley, the lead singer and colyricist of Alice In Chains, was found dead at home.
1999 In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads guilty to kidnapping and felony murder in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction for the apparent hate crime killing of Matthew Shepard
1998 10th Seniors Golf Tradition
1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby
1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
1995 The U.S. House of Representatives votes 246-188 to cut taxes for individuals and corporations.
1994 Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
1993 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
1992 Search & Destroy closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 46 performances
1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak.
1988 Democratic Convention picks Michael Dukakis as their Presidential Candidate
1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children and Tracey Ullman
1986 Two US soldiers and a Turkish woman killed, 230 injured, in West Berlin discotheque bombing.
1984 Human Comedy opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats.
1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
1981 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez.
1979 Baltimore Orioles' manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper.
1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1976 Harold Wilson resigns, as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England.
1975 Letter for Queen Victoria closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
1974 World's tallest building, the World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories).
1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike.
1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit.
1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
1965 37th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards: Best picture: My Fair Lady;
1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa.
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1961 Barbra Streisand appears on Jack Paar Show
1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284.
1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1957 In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
1956 Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th Amateur Athletic Union wrestling title.
1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for espionage in the USA.
1949 A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki.
1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse.
1943 Allies bomb Mortsel
1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1941 In SF, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
1940 Neville Chamberlain, in what proves to be a tragic misjudgment, declares in a major public speech that Hitler has quotmissed the busquot.
1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory in Germany.
1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa, Poland.
1936 Tupelo, Mississippi, USA virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die.
1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election.
1933 US President Franklin Roosevelt issues Executive Order 6102, requiring public to turn in gold certificates, bullion, and coins for placement in the Federal Reserve.
1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions.
1930 England out for 849 in cricket versus West Indies Kingston, Andrew Sandham out for 325.
1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact.
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in the 100- and 200-metre freestyle.
1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election.
1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana.
1918 The US Treasury offers the Third Liberty Loan seeking $3 billion in bonds paying 4.5 percent interest.
1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette.
1915 Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title.
1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer.
1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns.
1904 The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25.
1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails.
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