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, 1,712,275,200 seconds 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
- 1923 –Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
- 1936 –Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
- 1955 –Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
- 1957 –In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
- 1986 –Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
- 1992 –Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
- 1992 –The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
- 1998 –In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
Who were born on April 5?
- 1622 –Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
- 1692 –Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
- 1912 –István Örkény, Hungarian author (d. 1979)
- 1922 –Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001)
- 1941 –Michael Moriarty, American actor
- 1945 –Tommy Smith, English footballer
- 1972 –Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver
- 1976 –Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
- 1980 –Matt Bonner, American basketball player
- 1983 –Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer
Who died on April 5?
- 1794 –Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
- 1794 –Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
- 1972 –Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1982 –Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
- 1989 –María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
- 1992 –Sam Walton, American retailer (b. 1918)
- 1994 –Kurt Cobain, musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
- 2005 –John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
- 2005 –Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
- 2007 –Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
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