About April 5
April 5, 2025 is the 95th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Aries is the sun 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 318 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 5
- 1621 –The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
- 1722 –The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
- 1792 –U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1923 –Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
- 1942 –World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
- 1944 –World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
- 1949 –Fireside Theater debuts on television.
- 1955 –Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
- 1957 –In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
- 1971 –In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
- 1986 –Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
- 1992 –The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
- 1998 –In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
- 1999 –Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
- 2010 –Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
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