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 95th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 23, 2022 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,649,116,800 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 ‘enneacontapentagon’ day.
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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 292 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 3,392 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 5 Historical Events
- 1792 –U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
- 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.
- 1945 –Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip “Tito” Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow “temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory”.
- 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 –Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
- 1991 –An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard.
- 2007 –Georgia establishes a Provisional Administrative Entity in the disputed region of South Ossetia.
- 2010 –Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
Who were born on April 5?
- 1908 –Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1912 –István Örkény, Hungarian author (d. 1979)
- 1912 –John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983)
- 1916 –Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1923 –Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1948 –Les Binks, British musician, former drummer for Judas Priest
- 1958 –Johan Kriek, South African/American tennis player
- 1967 –Anu Garg, Indian/American author and speaker
- 1974 –Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor
- 1981 –Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player
Who died on April 5?
- 1693 –Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
- 1695 –George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (b. 1633)
- 1834 –Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1757)
- 1941 –Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
- 1946 –Vincent Youmans, American songwriter (b. 1898)
- 1970 –Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
- 1972 –Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1991 –Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
- 2000 –Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
- 2001 –Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
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