About April 5
April 5, 2021 is the 95th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 302 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.
- 1614 –In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
- 1722 –The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
- 1804 –High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
- 1904 –The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
- 1923 –Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
- 1932 –Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
- 1932 –Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
- 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.
- 1946 –Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.
- 1949 –Fireside Theater debuts on television.
- 1951 –Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1976 –In the People’s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
- 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.
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