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 96^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 23, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,712,275,200 seconds 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 ‘enneacontahexagon’ 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 299 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 4,123 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 5 Historical Events

• 1242 –
  During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
• 1904 –
  The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
• 1933 –
  U.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.
• 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”.
• 1951 –
  Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 1976 –
  In the People’s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
• 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.
• 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?

• 1692 –
  Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
• 1869 –
  Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
• 1893 –
  Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)
• 1922 –
  Tom Finney, English footballer
• 1944 –
  Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
• 1946 –
  Björn Granath, Swedish actor
• 1950 –
  Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
• 1972 –
  Paul Okon, Australian footballer
• 1982 –
  Hayley Atwell, English actress
• 1990 –
  Sophia Papamichalopoulou, Cypriot skier

Who died on April 5?

• 1697 –
  King Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1655)
• 1794 –
  Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
• 1945 –
  Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
• 1975 –
  Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
• 1976 –
  Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
• 1979 –
  Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
• 1981 –
  Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (b. 1945)
• 1992 –
  Sam Walton, American retailer (b. 1918)
• 2007 –
  Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
• 2007 –
  Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss) (b. 1956)