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This day in history: 5 April

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851 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 5 April.
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2018: Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.

Holidays and observances

Children's Day (Palestinian territories)

Christian feast day: Æthelburh of Kent

Christian feast day: Agape, Chionia, and Irene

Christian feast day: Albert of Montecorvino

Christian feast day: April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Blessed Mariano de la Mata

Christian feast day: Catherine of Palma

Christian feast day: Derfel Gadarn

Christian feast day: Gerald of Sauve-Majeure

Christian feast day: Juliana of Liège

Christian feast day: Maria Crescentia Höss

Christian feast day: Pandita Mary Ramabai (Episcopal Church (USA))

Events

2018Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.

2010Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the International Space Station.

2010Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

2010Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawa

2009North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite. 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.

2007The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.

1999Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

1998In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.

1992Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.

1992Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.

1991An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard, including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

1991The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

1983The People's Armed Police is officially founded.

1977The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.

1976In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.

1974Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is published for the first time with a print run of 30,000 copies.

1971In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

1966During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.

1965My Fair Lady wins Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards.

1958Ripple 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.

1956Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

1951Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.

1949A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

1946A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all four crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.

1946Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.

1945Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".

1943World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla

1942World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad.

1942World 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 sou

1938Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Repu

1936Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

1933Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage.

1933U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.

1932Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.

1922The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

1910The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.

1902A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.

1879Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

1862American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.

1818In 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.

Born on this day

2003Tetairoa McMillan, American football player

2001Felipe Peña, Argentine footballer

2001Johnny Beecher, American ice hockey player

1999Bobby Miller, American baseball player

1998Nathan Broadhead, Welsh football player

1997Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer

1997Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler

1996Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver

1996Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer

1995Daniel Caesar, Canadian singer-songwriter

1995Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer

1995Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer

1995Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer

1995Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player

1994Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer

1994Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player

1994Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer

1993Andreas Bouchalakis, Greek footballer

1993Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player

1993Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer

1993Maya DiRado, American swimmer

1993Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player

1992Dmytro Ryzhuk, Ukrainian footballer

1992Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

1992Kaveh Rezaei, Iranian footballer

1992Shintaro Kurumaya, Japanese footballer

1991Adriano Grimaldi, Italian-German footballer

1991Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Brazilian footballer

1991Joël Mall, Swiss footballer

1991Nathaniel Clyne, English footballer

1991Yassine Bounou, Moroccan footballer

1990Alex Cuthbert, Welsh rugby player

1990Amer Said Al-Shatri, Omani footballer

1990Chen Huijia, Chinese swimmer

1990Fredy Hinestroza, Colombian footballer

1990Género Zeefuik, Dutch footballer

1990Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer (died 2020)

1990Iryna Pamialova, Belarusian canoeist

1990Ismaeel Mohammad, Qatari footballer

1990Jakub Sedláček, Czech ice hockey player

Died on this day

2024C. J. Snare, American musician and songwriter (born 1959)

2022Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (born 1943)

2022Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (born 1919)

2021Paul Ritter, English actor (born 1966)

2019Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

2019Wowaka, Japanese musician (born 1987)

2018Isao Takahata, Japanese director (born 1935)

2017Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (born 1929)

2017Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (born 1942)

2017Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (born 1943)

2017Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1958)

2017Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (born 1931)

2017Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (born 1947)

2017Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (born 1926)

2017Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (born 1956)

2017Tim Parnell, British race car driver (born 1932)

2016Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (born 1936)

2015Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (born 1949)

2015Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (born 1936)

2014Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (born 1920)

2014John Pinette, American comedian (born 1964)

2014José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (born 1947)

2014Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (born 1939)

2014Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (born 1927)

2013Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (born 1930)

2013Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (born 1924)

2013Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (born 1921)

2012Barney McKenna, Irish musician (born 1939)

2012Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (born 1934)

2012Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (born 1935)

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