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, 28,537,920 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 ‘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
- 1614 –In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
- 1804 –High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
- 1874 –Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
- 1900 –Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
- 1932 –Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
- 1949 –A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
- 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.
- 1992 –The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
- 2007 –Georgia establishes a Provisional Administrative Entity in the disputed region of South Ossetia.
Who were born on April 5?
- 1816 –Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
- 1837 –Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
- 1909 –Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996)
- 1916 –Albert Henry Ottenweller, American bishop
- 1929 –Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1948 –Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest)
- 1954 –Peter Case, American musician (The Nerves)
- 1956 –Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
- 1961 –Jim LeRoy, American airshow pilot (d. 2007)
- 1973 –Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)
Who died on April 5?
- 582 –Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 512)
- 1605 –Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (b. c. 1513)
- 1693 –Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
- 1765 –Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
- 1900 –Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
- 1945 –Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
- 1967 –Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891)
- 1970 –Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
- 1991 –John Tower, American politician (b. 1925)
- 2005 –Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
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