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April 5th, 2006 (April 05 2006) | Death | Gene Pitney, American singer (born in 1941) | |
April 5th, 1986 (April 05 1986) | Event | Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin, Germany. | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Event | In the People s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident. | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Birth | Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Birth | Ryan Drese, American baseball player | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Birth | Ross Gload, American baseball player | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Birth | Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Birth | Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Death | Howard Hughes, American aviator (born in 1905) | |
April 5th, 1976 (April 05 1976) | Death | Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (born in 1891) | |
April 5th, 1966 (April 05 1966) | Birth | Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam) | |
April 5th, 1956 (April 05 1956) | Event | Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
April 5th, 1956 (April 05 1956) | Event | In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister. | |
April 5th, 1956 (April 05 1956) | Birth | Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler | |
April 5th, 1946 (April 05 1946) | Event | Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation. | |
April 5th, 1946 (April 05 1946) | Birth | Jane Asher, British actress | |
April 5th, 1946 (April 05 1946) | Death | Vincent Youmans, American songwriter (born in 1898) | |
April 5th, 1936 (April 05 1936) | Event | Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi. | |
April 5th, 1936 (April 05 1936) | Birth | John Kelly, Irish republican politician (died in 2007) | |
April 5th, 1926 (April 05 1926) | Birth | Roger Corman, American film director | |
April 5th, 1916 (April 05 1916) | Birth | Gregory Peck, American actor (died in 2003) | |
April 5th, 1906 (April 05 1906) | Birth | Lord Buckley, American monologist (died in 1960) | |
April 5th, 1856 (April 05 1856) | Birth | Booker T. Washington, American educator (died in 1915) | Booker T. Washington Quotes |
April 5th, 1816 (April 05 1816) | Birth | Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died in 1890) | |
April 5th, 1676 (April 05 1676) | Death | John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (born in 1606) | |
April 5th, 1566 (April 05 1566) | Event | Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II. | |
April 5th, 0456 (April 05 0456) | Event | St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop. | |