5 Aprile
The 5t o Aprile is the 95t day o the year (96t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 270 days ti come.
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Events
- 1621 - The ship "Mayflower" sets sail frae Massachusetts back tae Ingland.
- 1722 - Dutch sailor Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European tae reach Easter Island in the Paceefic Ocean, on Pace Sunday.
- 1804 - The first descreivit meteorite faas in Possil, Scotland (Heigh Possil Meteorite).
- 1815 - Indonesie's Tambora volcano erupts.
- 1879 - Chile declares war on Bolivie.
- 1902 - The first Ibrox Diasaster occurs: A wooden stand collapses durin a Scotland v. Ingland gemme, killin 25 fowk an injurin 517.
- 1908 - Fitbaw: Germany plays its first gemme, losin 5-3 tae Swisserland in Basel, in what is an aa the Swiss team's first-ever veectory.
- 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi reaches the sea on his saut mairch.
- 1946 - Soviet Union troops leave the Dens island o Bornholm.
- 1976 - James Callaghan becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1980 - A mausoleum tae Chiang Kai-shek is inauguratit in Taipei.
- 1992 - Alberto Fujimori dissolves the Peruvian Congress wi militar force.
- 1994 - American muisicker Kurt Cobain commits suicide, agit 27.
- 1998 - The Akashi-Kaikyo Brig, linkin the islands o Honshu an Awaji-Shima in Japan, opens.
- 1999 - Twa Libyans jalouset o settin aff a bomb on Pan Am Flicht 103 in 1988 are gien up for trial in the Netherlands.
- 2009 - North Korea launches the Kwangmyongsong 2 rocket.
- 2012 - Malawian Preses Bingu wa Mutharika dees agit 78, while still in affice. Joyce Banda succeeds him.
- 2016 - Prime meenister o Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns efter the leak o the Panama Papers.
Births
- 1568 - Pape Urban VIII (d. 1644)
- 1588 - Thomas Hobbes, Inglis philosopher (d. 1679)
- 1785 - Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11t Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots peer (d. 1866)
- 1827 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Inglis surgeon (d. 1912)
- 1834 - Robert Rowand Anderson, Scots airchitect (d. 1921)
- 1856 - Booker T. Washington, American eddicator (d. 1915)
- 1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrick conductor (d. 1989)
- 1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Tom Finney, Inglis fitbawer (d. 2014)
- 1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norse-American pheesicist
- 1934 - Roman Herzog, umwhile Preses o Germany (d. 2017)
- 1937 - Colin Powell, 65t Unitit States Secretar o State
- 1946 - Jane Asher, Inglis actress
- 1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, umwhile Preses o the Philippines
- 1949 - Judith Resnik, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1952 - Alfie Conn Jr., Scots fitbawer
- 1960 - Ian Redford, Scots fitbawer (d. 2014)
- 1962 - Richard Gough, Scots fitbawer
- 1966 - Willie Falconer, Scots fitbawer
- 1973 - Pharrell Williams, American sangster
- 1975 - John Hartson, Welsh fitbawer
- 1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spaingie fitbawer
- 1982 - Hayley Atwell, Inglis actress
Daiths
- 1697 - Charles XI o Swaden (b. 1655)
- 1794 - Georges Danton, French revolutionar feegur (b. 1759)
- 1806 - Benjamin Bell, Scots surgeon (b. 1749)
- 1941 - Arthur Lapworth, Scots chemist (b. 1872)
- 1950 - Hugh Robert Mill, Scots geografer an meteorologist (b. 1861)
- 1964 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
- 1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, Preses o the Republic o Cheenae (b. 1887)
- 1994 - Kurt Cobain, American muisicker (b. 1967)
- 1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
- 2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer (b. 1915)
- 2008 - Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2012 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Preses o Malawi (b. 1934)
- 2014 - Alan Davie, Scots penter an muisicker (b. 1920)
- 2014 - Peter Matthiessen, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2015 - Richard Dysart, American actor (b. 1929)
- 2018 - Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator an screenwriter (b. 1935)
Halidays
- Sikmogil (Sooth Korea)
- Childer's Day (Palestinian territories)
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