Editing April 5 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[823]] &ndash; [[Lothair I]] is crowned [[King of Italy]] by [[Pope Paschal I]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Borovsky|first=Jozef|title=Chrysalis I: Metamorphosis of Odium|location=Victoria, B.C.|publisher=Friesen Press|date=2019|isbn=9781525547706|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7OoDwAAQBAJ|page=150}}</ref>
* [[919]] &ndash; The [[Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921)|second Fatimid invasion]] of [[Medieval Egypt|Egypt]] begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, [[Al-Qa'im (Fatimid caliph)|al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah]], sets out from [[Raqqada]] at the head of his army.<ref>{{cite book | last=Halm | first=Heinz | author-link = Heinz Halm | title = Das Reich des Mahdi: Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden | language = de | trans-title = The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids | publisher = C. H. Beck | location = Munich | year = 1991 | isbn = 3-406-35497-1 | page=188}}</ref>
*[[1242]] &ndash; During the [[Battle on the Ice]] of [[Lake Peipus]], [[Republic of Novgorod|Russian]] forces, led by [[Alexander Nevsky]], rebuff an invasion attempt by the [[Teutonic Knights]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Windhausen|first=John D.|chapter=Alexander Nevsky|title=Dictionary of World Biography. Vol. 2: The Middle Ages|editor-last=Magill|editor-first=Frank Northen|location=Chicago|publisher=Salem Press|date=1998|isbn=9780893563141|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aBHSc2hTfeUC|pages=52–53}}</ref>
*[[1536]] &ndash; [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] makes a [[Royal Entry]] into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a [[Roman triumph]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Beard|first=Mary|title=The Roman Triumph|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=Belknap Press|date=2009|isbn=9780674032187|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwvKsHgd6cwC|pages=53–55}}</ref>
*[[1566]] &ndash; Two hundred [[Habsburg Netherlands|Dutch]] noblemen, led by [[Hendrick van Brederode]], force themselves into the presence of [[Margaret of Parma]] and present the [[Compromise of Nobles|Petition of Compromise]], denouncing the [[Spanish Inquisition]] in the [[Seventeen Provinces]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=James C.|title=A Concise History of the Netherlands|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2017|isbn=9780521875882|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRkuDwAAQBAJ|pages=120–121}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1614]] &ndash; In [[Virginia]], [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] [[Pocahontas]] marries English colonist [[John Rolfe]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hutner|first=Heidi|title=Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama|location=Oxford, UK|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2001|isbn=9780195141887|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmnnCwAAQBAJ|page=24}}</ref>
*[[1621]] &ndash; The ''[[Mayflower]]'' sets sail from [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]] on a return trip to England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Philbrick|first=Nathaniel|title=Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War|location=New York|publisher=Penguin Books|date=2006|isbn=9780143111979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qk9AXww_XysC|page=100}}</ref>
*[[1792]] &ndash; United States President [[George Washington]] exercises his authority to [[Veto power in the United States|veto a bill]], the first time this power is used in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last=Daynes|first=Byron W.|chapter=George Washington: Reluctant Occupant, Uncertain Model for the Presidency|title=George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency|editor-last1=Rozell|editor-first1=Mark J.|editor-last2=Pederson|editor-first2=William D.|editor-last3=Williams|editor-first3=Frank J.|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Praeger Press|date=2000|isbn=9780275968670|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1FPpEd0sBJQC|page=11}}</ref>
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Peace of Basel]] between France and [[Prussia]] is made.<ref>{{cite book|last=Biesinger|first=Joseph A.|title=Germany: A Reference Guide From the Renaissance to the Present|location=New York|publisher=Facts On File|date=2006|isbn=9780816045211|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=exMn24SA7fMC|page=398}}</ref>
*[[1818]] &ndash; In the [[Battle of Maipú]], [[Chile]]'s independence movement, led by [[Bernardo O'Higgins]] and [[José de San Martín]], win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.<ref>{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Jerome R.|title=Latin American Heroes: Liberators and Patriots From 1500 to the Present|location=New York|publisher=Ballantine Books|date=1993|isbn=9780345383846|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcCGDwAAQBAJ|pages=88–89}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Yorktown (1862)|Battle of Yorktown]] begins.<ref>{{cite book|last=Eicher|first=David J.|title=The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2002|isbn=9780743218467|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1p94XzYASDAC|pages=215–217}}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Bolivia]] declares war on [[Chile]], and Chile declares war on [[Peru]], starting the [[War of the Pacific]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Eggenberger|first=David|title=Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles From 1479 B.C. to the Present|location=New York|publisher=Dover Books|date=1985|isbn=9780486249131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C5pkSZBIXW0C|page=426}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1902]] &ndash; [[1902 Ibrox disaster|A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park]] (now [[Ibrox Stadium]]) in [[Glasgow]], Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international [[association football]] match between [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] and [[England national football team|England]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Grahame|first=Ewing|date=2010-12-30|title=More than 600 people were killed or injured in the first Ibrox Disaster in 1902 when Scotland played England|journal=Daily Telegraph|language=en-GB|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/8230537/More-than-600-people-were-killed-or-injured-in-the-first-Ibrox-Disaster-in-1902-when-Scotland-played-England.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/8230537/More-than-600-people-were-killed-or-injured-in-the-first-Ibrox-Disaster-in-1902-when-Scotland-played-England.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=2020-08-27|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[1910]] &ndash; The [[Transandine Railway]] connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.archivonacional.gob.cl/616/w3-article-8094.html?_noredirect=1|title=Expansión ferroviaria en Chile|date=|access-date=2021-02-23|website=Colecciones digitales|url-status=live|publisher=[[Archivo Nacional de Chile]]|language=Spanish|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213062916/https://www.archivonacional.gob.cl/616/w3-article-8094.html?_noredirect=1 |archive-date=2021-02-13 }}</ref>
*[[1922]] &ndash; The [[American Birth Control League]], forerunner of [[Planned Parenthood]], is incorporated.
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Dominion of Newfoundland]]: [[1932 Colonial Building riot|Ten thousand rioters]] seize the [[Colonial Building]] leading to the end of self-government.
*[[1933]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] signs two [[executive order]]s: 6101 to establish the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]], and [[Executive Order 6102|6102]] "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
*  1933   &ndash; [[Andorran Revolution]]: The [[Young Andorrans]] occupy the [[Casa de la Vall]] and force the government to hold [[1933 Andorran parliamentary election|democratic elections]] with [[universal male suffrage]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gonzàlez i Vilalta|first=Andreu |title=La cruïlla andorrana de 1933: la revolució de la modernitat|url=http://www.cossetania.com/la-cruilla-andorrana-de-1933-la-revolucio-de-la-modernitat-939|year=2009|publisher=Fundació Julià Reig|isbn=978-84-9791-497-0|language=ca}}</ref>
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak|Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak]]: An [[Fujita scale|F5]] tornado kills 233 in [[Tupelo, Mississippi]].
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Spanish Civil War]]: Two days after the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Nationalist army]] occupied the Catalan city of [[Lleida]], dictator [[Francisco Franco]] decrees the abolition of the [[Generalitat de Catalunya|Generalitat]] (the autonomous government of [[Catalonia]]), the [[Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939)|self-government granted by the Republic]], and the official status of the [[Catalan language]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Esculies |first1=Joan |title="¡El Estatuto de Cataluña ha muerto!" |url=https://elpais.com/cat/2018/04/05/cultura/1522908912_815846.html |newspaper=El País |date=5 April 2018 |access-date=3 April 2024}}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Adolf Hitler]] issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing [[Case Blue]], including the [[6th Army (Wehrmacht)|German Sixth Army]]'s [[Battle of Stalingrad|planned assault on Stalingrad]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Battle of Stalingrad Timeline {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-battle-of-stalingrad|access-date=2022-01-13|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>
*  1942   &ndash; World War II: The [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] launches [[Easter Sunday Raid|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|56|6}} and {{HMS|Dorsetshire|40|6}} are sunk southwest of the island.
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: [[United States Army Air Forces]] bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of [[Mortsel]]. Their target was the Erla factory {{convert|1|km}} from the residential area hit.
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] leader [[Josip Broz Tito]] signs an agreement with the [[Soviet Union]] to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Soviet]] troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of [[Bornholm]].
*  1946   &ndash; A [[Fleet Air Arm]] [[Vickers Wellington]] [[1946 Rabat Vickers Wellington crash|crashes]] into a residential area in [[Rabat, Malta|Rabat]], [[Crown Colony of Malta|Malta]] during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.<ref>{{cite web |title=Crash of a Vickers 440 Wellington X in Ir-Rabat: 20 killed |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-440-wellington-x-ir-rabat-20-killed |website=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209145837/https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-vickers-440-wellington-x-ir-rabat-20-killed |archive-date=9 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Accident details |url=http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1946/1946-19.htm |website=PlaneCrashInfo.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209150524/http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1946/1946-19.htm |archive-date=9 February 2020}}</ref>
*[[1949]] &ndash; A [[St. Anthony's Hospital fire|fire in a hospital]] in [[Effingham, Illinois]], kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
*[[1951]] &ndash; Cold War: [[Ethel and Julius Rosenberg]] are sentenced to death for [[espionage|spying]] for the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Cuban Revolution]]: [[Fidel Castro]] declares himself at war with [[President of Cuba|Cuban President]] [[Fulgencio Batista]].
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1966]] &ndash; During the [[Buddhist Uprising]], South Vietnamese Prime Minister [[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of [[Da Nang|Đà Nẵng]] before backing down.<ref>{{cite book |title=Intervention : how America became involved in Vietnam |author=Kahin, George McT. |location=New York City |publisher=Knopf |year=1986 |pages=423&ndash;424|isbn=0-394-54367-X |author-link=George McTurnan Kahin |url=https://archive.org/details/intervention00geor }}</ref>
*[[1971]] &ndash; In Sri Lanka, [[Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna]] launches [[1971 JVP insurrection|a revolt]] against the [[United Front (Sri Lanka)|United Front]] government of [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]].
*[[1974]] &ndash; ''[[Carrie (novel)|Carrie]]'', the first novel by American author [[Stephen King]], is [[Carrie (novel)#Publication|published for the first time]] with a print run of 30,000 copies.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/stephenkingfromt00beah/ |last=Beahm |first=George |author-link=George Beahm |title=Stephen King From A to Z: An Encyclopedia of His Life and Work |publisher=[[Andrews McMeel Publishing]] |page=29|date=September 1998 |isbn=978-0-83626-914-7 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/04/carrie-stephen-king-horror |title=How Carrie changed Stephen King's life, and began a generation of horror |first=Alison |last=Flood |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 April 2014 |access-date=5 June 2023}}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; In [[China]], the [[April Fifth Movement]] leads to the [[1976 Tiananmen Incident|Tiananmen Incident]].
*[[1977]] &ndash; The [[US supreme court|US Supreme Court]] rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the [[Sioux]] people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in ''Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Native North American Almanac|last=Champagne|first=Duane|publisher=Gale Group|year=2001|isbn=0787616559|location=Farmington Hills, MI}}</ref>
*[[1983]] – The [[People's Armed Police]] is officially founded<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zhang |first=Jiaoying |date=2016-04-05 |title=历史上的今天4.5：武警成立 |trans-title=Today in history April 5 - the establishment of the PAP |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com//mil/2016-04/05/c_128863571.htm |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Xinhua News Agency}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; An [[Atlantic Southeast Airlines|ASA]] [[EMB 120]] [[Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311|crashes]] in [[Brunswick, Georgia]], killing all 23 aboard including [[John Tower|Sen. John Tower]] and astronaut [[Sonny Carter]].
*1991   &ndash; The [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space shuttle ''Atlantis'']] launches on [[STS-37]] to deploy the [[Compton Gamma Ray Observatory]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Alberto Fujimori]], president of Peru, [[1992 Peruvian self-coup|dissolves the Peruvian congress]] by military force.
*  1992   &ndash; Peace protesters [[Suada Dilberovic]] and [[Olga Sučić]] are killed on the [[Vrbanja Bridge]] in [[Sarajevo]], becoming the first casualties of the [[Bosnian War]].
*[[1998]] &ndash; In [[Japan]], the [[Akashi Kaikyō Bridge]] opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
*[[1999]] &ndash; Two [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Libyans]] suspected of bringing down [[Pan Am Flight 103]] in [[1988]] are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Swardson |first=Anne |date=1999-04-06 |title=Lockerbie Suspects Delivered For Trial |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/04/06/lockerbie-suspects-delivered-for-trial/1ae63486-6bba-4cd8-96a3-7f2626b43193/ |access-date=2023-04-04 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; The [[cruise ship]] [[MS Sea Diamond|MS ''Sea Diamond'']] strikes a volcanic reef near [[Nea Kameni]] and sinks the next day.  Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-04-05|title=Flashback in maritime History - Sea Diamond sinking at Santorini 5 April 2007|url=https://maritimecyprus.com/2018/04/05/flashback-in-maritime-history-sea-diamond-sinking-at-santorini-5-april-2007/|access-date=2022-04-05|website=Maritime Cyprus|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[North Korea]] launches its controversial [[Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2]] satellite. 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]].
*[[2010]] &ndash; Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two [[5 April 2010 North-West Frontier Province attacks|militant suicide bombings and attacks]] in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] province of [[Pakistan]]: the first on an [[Awami National Party]] rally in [[Timergara]];<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/pakistan-attacks-kill-46-target-us-consulate-20100405-rmv8.html|title=Pakistan attacks kill 46, target US consulate|first=Lehaz |last=Ali|date=6 April 2010|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref> the second on the [[Consulate General of the United States, Peshawar|U.S. Consulate in Peshawar]].<ref>{{cite news |date=5 April 2010 |title=Explosions near U.S. consulate in Peshawar kill at least 8 |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/pakistan.blast/index.html?hpt=T1 |work=CNN |location=Islamabad}}</ref>
* 2010 &ndash; Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the [[Upper Big Branch Mine disaster|Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Urbina |first=Ian |date=2010-04-09 |title=No Survivors Found After West Virginia Mine Disaster |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/us/10westvirginia.html |access-date=2023-04-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* 2010   &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] is launched on [[STS-131]] to resupply the [[International Space Station]].<ref name="fd01">{{Cite web |date=April 5, 2010 |title=NASA'S Shuttle Discovery Heads to Station After Predawn Launch |url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/apr/HQ_10-076_sts131_launch.html |access-date=April 5, 2010 |publisher=NASA}}</ref>
*[[2018]] &ndash; Agents with the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] raid a [[2018 Southeastern Provisions raid|slaughterhouse in Tennessee]], detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.<ref name="town">{{cite magazine |last1=Carpenter |first1=Zoe |title=When ICE Comes to Town |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-raid-tennessee-769293/ |access-date=July 9, 2020 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=December 17, 2018}}</ref>