What are the important events that happened on April 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 5: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 5 is the 96th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 23, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,632 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontahexagon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 299 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,123 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 5 Historical Events
- 1566 –Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
- 1804 –High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
- 1879 –Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
- 1932 –Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
- 1933 –U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.
- 1943 –World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
- 1944 –World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
- 1956 –Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
- 1956 –In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.
- 1999 –Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
Who were born on April 5?
- 1523 –Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
- 1732 –Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
- 1752 –Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
- 1769 –Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet Royal Navy Vice-Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty (d. 1839)
- 1916 –Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1929 –Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1944 –Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
- 1950 –Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
- 1958 –Johan Kriek, South African/American tennis player
- 1972 –Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and director
Who died on April 5?
- 582 –Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 512)
- 1168 –Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
- 1419 –Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
- 1928 –Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
- 1932 –Phar Lap, Australian Racehorse (b. 1926)
- 1945 –Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer (b. 1903)
- 1976 –Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
- 1982 –Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
- 2005 –Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906)
- 2007 –Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
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