April 5

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on April 5. From 1900 until now. April 5 is under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Pharrell Williams (1973), Bette Davis (1908) and Agnetha Faltskog (1950). Several movies were released around April 5 over the years, such as Rear Window in 1990 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and The Cloud-Capped Star in 1960 directed by Ritwik Ghatak.
But much more happened on April 5 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

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

2019 Libyan National Army troops reach the outskirts of the Libyan capital Tripoli, securing a key military checkpoint known as "Bridge 27". (AFP)
2018 2018 Gaza border protests: The Israeli Defence Forces releases footage of a man fatally shot yesterday during an apparent attempt to breach the Gazan border fence. Israel says he was carrying an AK-47 and explosive devices including grenades, and accused Hamas of "playing with fire". (Ynet News)
2017 War in North-West Pakistan: A suicide bomber kills at least six people and wounds 18 near a Pakistan Army vehicle taking part in the census in the city of Lahore. (Reuters)
2016 Syrian Civil War: Al-Nusra Front militants shoot down a Syrian Arab Air Force Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jet and capture its pilot in the northern Aleppo Governorate. (The Telegraph)
2015 Garissa University College attack: Kenyan Air Force planes bomb two al Shabaab bases in response to last week's attack on Garissa University College. (Reuters)
2014 2014 Aswan tribal clashes:: 23 people are killed in a gunfight between feuding tribes near the Egyptian city of Aswan. (Al-Ahram) (The Hindu)
2013 Mexican Drug War:: Recent report from Stratfor indicates that at least 60 people were killed in Tamaulipas state in March, after the Gulf Cartel leaders Miguel El Gringo Villarreal and Mario Ramírez Treviño fought for control of the organization. (Proceso)
2012 A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai desert hits the Israeli city of Eilat but causes no injuries or property damage. (Reuters)
2011 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis:
2010 An explosion in the Upper Big Branch Mine-South coal mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia, USA kills 29 workers.
2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2008 Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter), American actor (Moses - The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes) and activist (1960s Civil Rights, National Rifle Association) dies at age 84 in Beverly Hills, California. Heston won Best Actor Academy Award for his performance in Ben Hur. Heston also served as president of the Screen Actors Guild and was chairman of the American Film Institute.
2007 Georgia establishes a Provisional Administrative Entity in the disputed region of South Ossetia.
2006 US scientists have successfully implanted artificial bladders (artificial urinary bladders) grown in the laboratory from patients' own cells into patients. (VoA)
2005 Zachary Hall Day - Valdosta, Georgia USA
2004 Paul Bremer states that militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is an outlaw and warns that uprisings by the cleric and his followers will not tolerated. (Middle East Online)
2003 The Senate of Belgium approves a change in the nation's war crimes law so that it will no longer apply to citizens of nations with sufficient human rights laws. The House of Representatives had already approved the change. The law had been used in the past to charge such people as George H. W. Bush, Colin Powell and Ariel Sharon with war crimes, and had interfered with Belgium's international relations.
2002 Layne Staley lead singer and co-lyricist of the rock group Alice In Chains found dead in 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 (Orbit 7)
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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