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)