5 Aprile

The 5t o Aprile is the 95t day o the year (96t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 270 days ti come.

Events
1621 - The ship "Mayflower" sets sail frae Massachusetts back tae Ingland.
1722 - Dutch sailor Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European tae reach Easter Island in the Paceefic Ocean, on Pace Sunday.
1804 - The first descreivit meteorite faas in Possil, Scotland (Heigh Possil Meteorite).
1815 - Indonesie's Tambora volcano erupts.
1879 - Chile declares war on Bolivie.
1902 - The first Ibrox Diasaster occurs: A wooden stand collapses durin a Scotland v. Ingland gemme, killin 25 fowk an injurin 517.
1908 - Fitbaw: Germany plays its first gemme, losin 5-3 tae Swisserland in Basel, in what is an aa the Swiss team's first-ever veectory.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi reaches the sea on his saut mairch.
1946 - Soviet Union troops leave the Dens island o Bornholm.
1976 - James Callaghan becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
1980 - A mausoleum tae Chiang Kai-shek is inauguratit in Taipei.
1992 - Alberto Fujimori dissolves the Peruvian Congress wi militar force.
1994 - American muisicker Kurt Cobain commits suicide, agit 27.
1998 - The Akashi-Kaikyo Brig, linkin the islands o Honshu an Awaji-Shima in Japan, opens.
1999 - Twa Libyans jalouset o settin aff a bomb on Pan Am Flicht 103 in 1988 are gien up for trial in the Netherlands.
2009 - North Korea launches the Kwangmyongsong 2 rocket.
2012 - Malawian Preses Bingu wa Mutharika dees agit 78, while still in affice. Joyce Banda succeeds him.
2016 - Prime meenister o Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns efter the leak o the Panama Papers.

Births
1568 - Pape Urban VIII (d. 1644)
1588 - Thomas Hobbes, Inglis philosopher (d. 1679)
1785 - Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11t Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots peer (d. 1866)
1827 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Inglis surgeon (d. 1912)
1834 - Robert Rowand Anderson, Scots airchitect (d. 1921)
1856 - Booker T. Washington, American eddicator (d. 1915)
1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrick conductor (d. 1989)
1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
1922 - Tom Finney, Inglis fitbawer (d. 2014)
1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norse-American pheesicist
1934 - Roman Herzog, umwhile Preses o Germany (d. 2017)
1937 - Colin Powell, 65t Unitit States Secretar o State
1946 - Jane Asher, Inglis actress
1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, umwhile Preses o the Philippines
1949 - Judith Resnik, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1952 - Alfie Conn Jr., Scots fitbawer
1960 - Ian Redford, Scots fitbawer (d. 2014)
1962 - Richard Gough, Scots fitbawer
1966 - Willie Falconer, Scots fitbawer
1973 - Pharrell Williams, American sangster
1975 - John Hartson, Welsh fitbawer
1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spaingie fitbawer
1982 - Hayley Atwell, Inglis actress

Daiths
1697 - Charles XI o Swaden (b. 1655)
1794 - Georges Danton, French revolutionar feegur (b. 1759)
1806 - Benjamin Bell, Scots surgeon (b. 1749)
1941 - Arthur Lapworth, Scots chemist (b. 1872)
1950 - Hugh Robert Mill, Scots geografer an meteorologist (b. 1861)
1964 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, Preses o the Republic o Cheenae (b. 1887)
1994 - Kurt Cobain, American muisicker (b. 1967)
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer (b. 1915)
2008 - Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
2012 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Preses o Malawi (b. 1934)
2014 - Alan Davie, Scots penter an muisicker (b. 1920)
2014 - Peter Matthiessen, American actor (b. 1927)
2015 - Richard Dysart, American actor (b. 1929)
2018 - Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator an screenwriter (b. 1935)

Halidays
 Sikmogil (Sooth Korea)
 Childer's Day (Palestinian territories)

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Category:Days o the year