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
- 1242 –During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
- 1566 –Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
- 1614 –In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
- 1874 –Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
- 1922 –The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
- 1936 –Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 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.
- 1945 –Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip “Tito” Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow “temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory”.
- 1946 –Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.
- 1949 –A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
- 1949 –Fireside Theater debuts on television.
- 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.
- 1971 –In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
- 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.
- 1999 –Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
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