About April 5
April 5, 2020 is the 96th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 313 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.
- 1621 –The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
- 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.
- 1879 –Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
- 1900 –Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
- 1904 –The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
- 1922 –The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
- 1932 –Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
- 1936 –Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 1949 –Fireside Theater debuts on television.
- 1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
- 1955 –Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
- 1956 –Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
- 1976 –In the People’s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
- 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.
- 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.
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