5 Aprile

The 5t o Aprile is the 95t day o the year (96t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 270 days ti come.

Events

1722: Ane o the statues on Easter Island

1998: Akashi-Kaikyo Brig

• 1621 - The ship "Mayflower" sets sail frae Massachusetts back tae Ingland.
• 1722 - Dutch sailor Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European tae reach Easter Island in the Paceefic Ocean, on Pace Sunday.
• 1804 - The first descreivit meteorite faas in Possil, Scotland (Heigh Possil Meteorite).
• 1815 - Indonesie's Tambora volcano erupts.
• 1879 - Chile declares war on Bolivie.
• 1902 - The first Ibrox Diasaster occurs: A wooden stand collapses durin a Scotland v. Ingland gemme, killin 25 fowk an injurin 517.
• 1908 - Fitbaw: Germany plays its first gemme, losin 5-3 tae Swisserland in Basel, in what is an aa the Swiss team's first-ever veectory.
• 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi reaches the sea on his saut mairch.
• 1946 - Soviet Union troops leave the Dens island o Bornholm.
• 1976 - James Callaghan becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1980 - A mausoleum tae Chiang Kai-shek is inauguratit in Taipei.
• 1992 - Alberto Fujimori dissolves the Peruvian Congress wi militar force.
• 1994 - American muisicker Kurt Cobain commits suicide, agit 27.
• 1998 - The Akashi-Kaikyo Brig, linkin the islands o Honshu an Awaji-Shima in Japan, opens.
• 1999 - Twa Libyans jalouset o settin aff a bomb on Pan Am Flicht 103 in 1988 are gien up for trial in the Netherlands.
• 2009 - North Korea launches the Kwangmyongsong 2 rocket.
• 2012 - Malawian Preses Bingu wa Mutharika dees agit 78, while still in affice. Joyce Banda succeeds him.
• 2016 - Prime meenister o Iceland Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns efter the leak o the Panama Papers.

Births

Gregory Peck

• 1568 - Pape Urban VIII (d. 1644)
• 1588 - Thomas Hobbes, Inglis philosopher (d. 1679)
• 1785 - Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11t Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots peer (d. 1866)
• 1827 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Inglis surgeon (d. 1912)
• 1834 - Robert Rowand Anderson, Scots airchitect (d. 1921)
• 1856 - Booker T. Washington, American eddicator (d. 1915)
• 1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
• 1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
• 1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrick conductor (d. 1989)
• 1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Tom Finney, Inglis fitbawer (d. 2014)
• 1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norse-American pheesicist
• 1934 - Roman Herzog, umwhile Preses o Germany (d. 2017)
• 1937 - Colin Powell, 65t Unitit States Secretar o State
• 1946 - Jane Asher, Inglis actress
• 1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, umwhile Preses o the Philippines
• 1949 - Judith Resnik, American astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1952 - Alfie Conn Jr., Scots fitbawer
• 1960 - Ian Redford, Scots fitbawer (d. 2014)
• 1962 - Richard Gough, Scots fitbawer
• 1966 - Willie Falconer, Scots fitbawer
• 1973 - Pharrell Williams, American sangster
• 1975 - John Hartson, Welsh fitbawer
• 1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spaingie fitbawer
• 1982 - Hayley Atwell, Inglis actress

Daiths

• 1697 - Charles XI o Swaden (b. 1655)
• 1794 - Georges Danton, French revolutionar feegur (b. 1759)
• 1806 - Benjamin Bell, Scots surgeon (b. 1749)
• 1941 - Arthur Lapworth, Scots chemist (b. 1872)
• 1950 - Hugh Robert Mill, Scots geografer an meteorologist (b. 1861)
• 1964 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
• 1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, Preses o the Republic o Cheenae (b. 1887)
• 1994 - Kurt Cobain, American muisicker (b. 1967)
• 1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
• 2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer (b. 1915)
• 2008 - Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2012 - Bingu wa Mutharika, Preses o Malawi (b. 1934)
• 2014 - Alan Davie, Scots penter an muisicker (b. 1920)
• 2014 - Peter Matthiessen, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2015 - Richard Dysart, American actor (b. 1929)
• 2018 - Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator an screenwriter (b. 1935)

Halidays

• Sikmogil (Sooth Korea)
• Childer's Day (Palestinian territories)