Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 5
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Upper Big Branch Mine disaster Miners Memorial -
The collapsed stand at Ibrox Park -
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1242 – Northern Crusades: In the Battle on the Ice, Novgorod forces led by Alexander Nevsky rebuffed an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus on the present-day border of Estonia and Russia. | refimprove |
| 1566 – A covenant of nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands presented Governor Margaret of Parma a petition to suspend the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. | unreferenced section |
| 1609 – Forces of the Japanese feudal domain of Satsuma captured the castle on Ryukyu Island, beginning the process that turned the Ryukyu Kingdom into a vassal state under Satsuma. | refimprove section |
| 1722 – Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to land on Easter Island. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1862 – American Civil War: Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac engaged Confederate forces led by Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder at the Battle of Yorktown in Yorktown, Virginia. | refimprove section, citation problems |
| 1900 – Archaeologists led by Arthur Evans in Knossos, Crete, discovered a large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing Mycenaean Greek now known as Linear B. | outdated |
| 1942 – World War II: Carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the Easter Sunday Raid on Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the British Eastern Fleet in an attempt to drive the Commonwealth naval force from the Indian Ocean. | refimprove |
| 1958 – In one of the first live Canadian national television broadcasts, Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in Discovery Passage, British Columbia, was destroyed in a planned explosion. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. | Too many citation needed tags |
| 1992 – Bosnian War: Unidentified gunmen killed two people while firing upon a large crowd of anti-war protesters in Sarajevo, marking the start of the four-year-long Siege of Sarajevo. | refimprove |
| Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet |b|1769| | Birthday not cited |
Eligible
- 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first legislation in Great Britain providing for copyright regulated by the government and courts, received royal assent and entered into force five days later.
- 1847 – Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
- 1863 - New Zealand Wars: The invasion of the Waikato ended after the Kīngitanga forces of King Tāwhiao abandoned their pā at Te Tiki o te Ihingarangi and migrated east to what became known as the King Country.
- 1902 – A spectator stand collapsed (pictured) during a football match at Ibrox Park in Govan, Scotland, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others.
- 1933 – Nazi sympathisers attempted to kidnap two German-Jewish filmmakers in Liechtenstein.
- 1936 – An F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people during one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
- 1955 – Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, Winston Churchill retired as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1966 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
- 1979 – Faculty members, clerical workers, and librarians at Boston University went on strike.
- 1998 – The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (pictured), then the world's longest suspension bridge, linking Awaji Island and Kobe in Japan, opened to traffic.
- 2000 – Fan violence broke out before a UEFA Cup semifinal in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.
- 2002 - In the first reported data breach, 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center.
- 2010 – An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years.
- 2018 – Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.
- Born/died this day: | Al-Mu'tadid |d|902| Ivan Kőszegi |d|1308| José María Coppinger |b|1773| Henry Havelock |b|1795| Jules Cambon |b|1845| Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine |b|1863| Soetran |b|1921| María Blanchard |d|1932| Stephan Gip |b|1936| Julio Ángel Fernández |b|1946| Judith Resnik |b|1949| Stella Creasy |b|1977| Olek |b|1978| Regine Bakenecker |b|1993| Jim Marshall |d|2012
Notes
- 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak appears on March 28 and April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak appears on April 2 and Super Outbreak appears on April 3, so 1936 tornado should not appear in the same year
April 5: Qingming Festival in Greater China (2026); Feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Catholicism)
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Pocahontas
- 919 – The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
- 1614 – Pocahontas (pictured), a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
- 1944 – Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
- 1986 – The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
- 2009 – The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
- al-Nuwayri (b. 1279)
- Thure de Thulstrup (b. 1848)
- Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (d. 1864)
- Kurt Cobain (d. 1994)