5 April

A list of events which occurred on the 5th of April.
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:Robert Bloch is born.
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:Frank Gorshin is born.
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:Carlos Carrasco is born.
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:John Berg is born.
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:A.C. Crispin and Larry DeUnger are born.
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:Michael Rider is born.
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:Brian Murray and Ray Murtaugh are born.
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:Joanna Heimbold is born.
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:Revised story outline submitted for the undeveloped Original Series episode "The Uncoiler" by Philip José Farmer.
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:Tasia Valenza is born.
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:Paul Power dies.
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:The Third UK Story Arc continues in Joe 90: Top Secret #12 with the second of four installments.
:Jeff Pruitt is born.
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:John Roshell is born.
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:Alexander Enberg is born.
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:Rebecca McFarland is born.
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:Brian Mysliwy and Wendy Speake are born.
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:Alexandra Lydon is born.
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:Andrew Elder is born.
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:The score for is recorded at Paramount Stage M, conducted by Ron Jones.
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:Fourth day of filming on .
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:Sixth day of filming on .
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:Fifth day of filming on .
:Ian Meltzer is born.
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: airs.
:Final draft script for is revised.
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:Eighteenth and final day of filming on , the series finale of .
:Sixth day of filming on . Enterprise-B scenes are filmed today.
:Second day of filming on .
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:Fourth day of filming on .
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: airs on Sky One in the United Kingdom.
:Sixth day of filming on .
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:Fourteenth day of filming on .
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:Seventh day of filming on .
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:Remastered version of airs.
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:Sixtieth day of filming on .
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:The season 1 finale of -remastered, is broadcast on television in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The episode was aired twice on the state channel Canvas (formerly BRT 2) in the morning time slot 10:20-11:05 am and the sub-prime time slot 18:21-19:05 pm. As usual in Flanders, the episodes are not dubbed, but subtitled and, as a state channel, without commercial breaks. Belgium's northern Dutch speaking neighbor, The Netherlands, has never aired the series, remastered or otherwise.
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:Tom Towles dies.
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:Star Trek: Politics: The Political culture of a Sci-Fi Series is released.
:Steve Sandor and Peter Webb die.
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:Tim O'Connor dies.
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: airs.
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:Robert Fletcher and Mary-Linda Rapelye die.
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: : The Director's Edition premieres on Paramount+. 
:Nehemiah Persoff dies.
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