What are the important events that happened on April 5? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 5: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 5 is the 95^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 23, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 484,392 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontapentagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,488 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 5 Historical Events

• 1792 –
  U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
• 1922 –
  The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
• 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 –
  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.
• 1971 –
  In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
• 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.
• 2009 –
  North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. 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.

Who were born on April 5?

• 1523 –
  Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
• 1837 –
  Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
• 1857 –
  Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893)
• 1893 –
  Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)
• 1906 –
  Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
• 1920 –
  Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
• 1922 –
  Tom Finney, English footballer
• 1929 –
  Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1958 –
  Johan Kriek, South African/American tennis player
• 1981 –
  Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player

Who died on April 5?

• 1419 –
  Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
• 1673 –
  François Caron, French explorer (b. 1600)
• 1697 –
  King Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1655)
• 1941 –
  Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
• 1969 –
  Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
• 1981 –
  Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (b. 1945)
• 1997 –
  Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
• 2007 –
  Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
• 2007 –
  Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
• 2007 –
  Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)