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 95^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 23, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,063,520 minutes 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 ‘enneacontapentagon’ 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 318 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 4,488 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 5 Historical Events

• 1621 –
  The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
• 1804 –
  High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
• 1900 –
  Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
• 1904 –
  The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
• 1922 –
  The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
• 1936 –
  Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
• 1949 –
  A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
• 1949 –
  Fireside Theater debuts on television.
• 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.
• 1969 –
  Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.

Who were born on April 5?

• 1719 –
  Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (d. 1794)
• 1840 –
  Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure (d. 1911)
• 1906 –
  Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
• 1909 –
  Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996)
• 1936 –
  John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
• 1939 –
  Ronald White, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
• 1944 –
  Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
• 1946 –
  Björn Granath, Swedish actor
• 1967 –
  Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player
• 1970 –
  Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto)

Who died on April 5?

• 582 –
  Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 512)
• 1168 –
  Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
• 1967 –
  Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891)
• 1979 –
  Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
• 1987 –
  Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer (b. 1932)
• 1997 –
  Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
• 2000 –
  Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
• 2001 –
  Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
• 2005 –
  Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
• 2009 –
  Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman (b. 1946)