Notable Historical Events on April 5th
April 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
456 |
St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop. |
823 |
Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-emperor of France |
1058 |
Bishop John "Minchio" [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X |
1242 |
Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice |
1566 |
200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition |
1585 |
Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch |
1603 |
New English King James I (James VI of Scotland) departs Edinburgh for London |
1609 |
Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. |
1614 |
2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments) |
1621 |
Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England |
1648 |
Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples |
1722 |
Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island |
1739 |
French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty |
1751 |
Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden |
1762 |
British take Grenada, West Indies, from French |
1768 |
1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC) |
1792 |
George Washington casts 1st presidential veto |
1803 |
1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D |
1804 |
High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil. |
1806 |
Isaac Quintard patents apple cider |
1812 |
Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French & Spanish |
1814 |
Netherlands Bank issues its 1st banknotes |
1815 |
Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java) |
1818 |
In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead. |
1861 |
Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Texas |
1862 |
Siege of Yorktown VA |
1865 |
Battle at Amelia Springs/Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign) |
1874 |
Johann Strauss Jr's opera "Die Fledermaus" premieres in Vienna |
1874 |
Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead, England. Designed by Joseph Paxton |
1879 |
Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. |
1881 |
Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty |
1887 |
Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller |
1889 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Copper Beeches" (BG) |
1893 |
Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks) |
1894 |
11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn |
1894 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of Empty House" (BG) |
1895 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" (BG) |
1895 |
Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices |
1897 |
The Greco-Turkish War, also called "Thirty Days' War", is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. |
1900 |
Attempted assassination of Edward, Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails |
1901 |
Under threats from the Ottoman Turkish Government, Bulgaria is forced to arrest the leaders of the Macedonian Committee |
1902 |
Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte" premieres in Paris |
1902 |
In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses killing 25 and injuring 517 |
1904 |
The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England. |
1905 |
James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire" premieres in London |
1906 |
St Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland" |
1908 |
British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns |
1911 |
MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie |
1911 |
Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer |
1915 |
French begin Woëvre-offensive |
1915 |
Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title |
1916 |
French troops occupy Bois de Caillette |
1919 |
Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann |
1919 |
Polish Army executes 35 young Jews |
1922 |
KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions |
1922 |
WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions |
1923 |
Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production |
1925 |
Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election |
1925 |
Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer |
1927 |
Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style |
1929 |
Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact |
1930 |
England out for 849 v WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325 |
1932 |
Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions |
1932 |
Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government. |
1935 |
Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election |
1936 |
Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die |
1938 |
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland |
1939 |
Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory |
1941 |
In SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses |
1943 |
Allies bomb Mortsel |
1943 |
Japanese troops conquer Indin |
1943 |
Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days |
1944 |
140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse |
1944 |
World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. |
1945 |
Almelo Netherlands freed |
1945 |
Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki |
1946 |
1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony |
1948 |
WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill) |
1949 |
Fireside Theater debuts on television. |
1950 |
Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins |
1951 |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death |
1952 |
Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title |
1953 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
1953 |
WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Elvis Presley records his debut single "That's All Right" |
1955 |
Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him |
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. |
1958 |
Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. |
1959 |
23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284 |
1961 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show" |
1961 |
Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council |
1962 |
Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns" premieres in NYC |
1962 |
Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp |
1962 |
NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m |
1962 |
St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands |
1963 |
Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me) |
1963 |
Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa |
1964 |
1st driverless trains run on London Underground |
1964 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
1965 |
37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews win |
1965 |
Lava Lamp Day celebrated |
1965 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1966 |
WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast |
1967 |
'76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds |
1967 |
ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit |
1968 |
Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens |
1968 |
US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled |
1969 |
Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. |
1970 |
WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole |
1971 |
Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy |
1971 |
US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life |
1971 |
WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike. |
1972 |
Baseball season is delayed due to a strike |
1972 |
Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub |
1973 |
NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19) |
1973 |
Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter |
1974 |
Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai |
1974 |
Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories) |
1975 |
"Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 perfs |
1975 |
Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely |
1976 |
Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England |
1976 |
Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen" premieres in London |
1977 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979 |
Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper |
1979 |
Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia |
1981 |
10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
1981 |
Phila Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes |
1982 |
British fleet sails to Falkland Islands |
1982 |
Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season |
1982 |
Lord Carrington, British foreign secretary resigns due to Falklands war |
1983 |
France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats |
1983 |
NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment |
1984 |
"Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances |
1984 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) |
1986 |
Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m) |
1986 |
US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing |
1987 |
16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
1987 |
Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman |
1987 |
Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title |
1988 |
Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate |
1989 |
David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo |
1989 |
Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak |
1989 |
Solidarity grants legal status in Poland |
1990 |
John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row |
1990 |
NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary |
1990 |
Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity |
1991 |
Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
1991 |
Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan |
1991 |
Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23 |
1991 |
Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched |
1991 |
US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq |
1992 |
"Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs |
1992 |
11th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Western Ky 78-62 |
1992 |
4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino |
1992 |
Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International |
1992 |
Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea |
1992 |
Peru's Pres Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution & dissolved Congress |
1992 |
Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president |
1992 |
Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice |
1992 |
Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C. |
1993 |
55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71 |
1993 |
73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1 |
1993 |
Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0 |
1993 |
Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
1993 |
Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3 |
1993 |
Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad |
1994 |
"Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs |
1994 |
Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak |
1996 |
John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days |
1996 |
Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King |
1997 |
Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7) |
1997 |
Steve Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" debuts |
1998 |
10th Seniors Golf Tradition: |
1999 |
Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands. |
2003 |
18th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins |
2009 |
North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks |
2009 |
44th Academy of Country Music Awards: Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley wins |
2012 |
Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people |
2012 |
77-year old pensioner's suicide outside Greek parliament prompts further protests in Athens |
2012 |
International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship |
2013 |
Japan's Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years |
2013 |
60 people are killed in Nigeria after a bus collides with an oil tanker |
2016 |
California Enacts $15 Minimum Wage |
2016 |
France opens probe after Panama leaks |
2016 |
Canada seeks 'Panama Papers' data, major bank defends practices |
2016 |
Dramatic late basket earns Villanova NCAA title |
2016 |
Alaska Air Announces Purchase of Virgin America |
2016 |
Donald Trump urges John Kasich to quit White House race |
2016 |
Panama papers: China leaders' relatives named in leaks |
2017 |
22 companies pull advertising from 'The O'Reilly Factor' |
2017 |
North Korea launches missile into Sea of Japan |
2017 |
Russia says deadly Syrian airstrike targeted chemical weapons factory |
2017 |
LGBT Employees Protected By Federal Civil Rights Act, Appeals Court Rules |
2018 |
China envoy says takes 'two to tango' in resolving trade dispute with US |
2018 |
Trump signs proclamation authorizing National Guard to southern border |
2063 |
Earth's 1st contact with the extra-terrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe |
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