About April 5
April 5, 2022 is the 95th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 292 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 5
- 1242 –During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
- 1609 –Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
- 1932 –Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
- 1943 –World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
- 1949 –A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
- 1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
- 1956 –Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
- 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.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
- 1986 –Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
- 1991 –An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard.
- 1992 –Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
- 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.
- 2007 –Georgia establishes a Provisional Administrative Entity in the disputed region of South Ossetia.
- 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.
- 2010 –Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
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