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05 Apr 1058
Bishop Giovanni Minchus [the thin] elected as Anti-Pope Benedict X
05 Apr 1566
200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
05 Apr 1585
Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch
05 Apr 1609
Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kysh Japan completes his successful invasion of the Ryky Kingdom in Okinawa
05 Apr 1614
2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
05 Apr 1621
Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
05 Apr 1648
Spanish troops and feudal barons strike down peoples uprising in Naples
05 Apr 1722
Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
05 Apr 1751
Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
05 Apr 1762
British take Grenada West Indies from French
05 Apr 1804
High Possil Meteorite The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil
05 Apr 1812
British storm Badajoz fortress in Extremadura Spain held by French & Spanish
05 Apr 1862
Siege of Yorktown fought in York County and Newport News Virginia ends (Yorktown campaign) inconclusive result (US Civil War)
05 Apr 1865
Battle at Amelia Springs Jetersville Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
05 Apr 1874
Johann Strauss Jrs opera Die Fledermaus premieres in Vienna
05 Apr 1874
Birkenhead Park the first civic public park opens in Birkenhead England designed by Joseph Paxton
05 Apr 1879
Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru starting the War of the Pacific.
05 Apr 1881
Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
05 Apr 1889
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Copper Beeches (BG)
05 Apr 1893
Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
05 Apr 1894
11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville Penn
05 Apr 1894
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Empty House (BG)
05 Apr 1895
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of 3 Students (BG)
05 Apr 1897
The Greco-Turkish War also called Thirty Days War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
05 Apr 1900
Attempted assassination of Edward Prince of Wales in Brussels fails
05 Apr 1901
Under threats from the Ottoman Turkish Government Bulgaria is forced to arrest the leaders of the Macedonian Committee
05 Apr 1902
Maurice Ravels Pavane pour une infante defunte premieres in Paris
05 Apr 1902
In Glasgow Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses killing 25 and injuring 517
05 Apr 1904
The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park Wigan England.
05 Apr 1905
James Barries Alice-sit-by-the-fire premieres in London
05 Apr 1906
St Pius X encyclical On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland
05 Apr 1915
Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
05 Apr 1919
Eamon de Valera becomes President of Dail Eireann
05 Apr 1919
Antwerp is officially declared the host city for the Games of the 7th Olympiad to be conducted in 1920 first post WWI Olympics
05 Apr 1922
KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
05 Apr 1922
WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
05 Apr 1925
Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
05 Apr 1927
Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
05 Apr 1930
England out for 849 v WI Kingston Sandham out for 325
05 Apr 1932
Dominion of Newfoundland 10000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government
05 Apr 1934
Baseball superstar Babe Ruth agrees to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC for a fee of 39000 for 13 weeks 4000 more than his NY Yankees playing contract
05 Apr 1935
Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
05 Apr 1936
Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado 216 die
05 Apr 1938
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
05 Apr 1940
99th Grand National 251 shot Bogskar ridden by Royal Air Force sergeant Mervyn Jones wins by 4 lengths from MacMoffat last true Aintree GN before a 5-year break due to World War II
05 Apr 1941
San Francisco Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
05 Apr 1943
Allies bomb Mortsel Belgiums worse lose of life during WWII (936 civilians)
05 Apr 1944
140 Lancasters bomb aircraft factory in Toulouse
05 Apr 1944
World War II 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans
05 Apr 1945
Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
05 Apr 1946
100th Grand National Capt. Robert Petre wins aboard 251 shot Lovely Cottage first true GN since 1940 due to World War II last on a Friday
05 Apr 1948
WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting
05 Apr 1949
60 year old St Anthonys Hospital n Effingham Illinois catches fire 77 people killed
05 Apr 1950
Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins
05 Apr 1952
Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
05 Apr 1952
106th Grand National Jockey Arthur Thompson and trainer Neville Crump combine for their second GN with Teal winning at odds of 1007
05 Apr 1953
WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
05 Apr 1956
Ceylons Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) led by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike wins the general elections in a landslide
05 Apr 1958
Ripple Rock an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
05 Apr 1959
23rd US Masters Tournament Augusta National GC Art Wall Jr wins by 1 stroke from Cary Middlecoff for his only PGA Tour major victory
05 Apr 1961
Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
05 Apr 1962
Herb Gardners Thousand Clowns premieres in NYC
05 Apr 1962
St Bernard Tunnel finished-SwissItalians workers shake hands
05 Apr 1963
Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
05 Apr 1963
Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
05 Apr 1964
1st driverless trains run on London Underground
05 Apr 1966
WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach FL (IND) 1st broadcast
05 Apr 1969
Massive anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities
05 Apr 1970
WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting
05 Apr 1971
US Lt William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre
05 Apr 1971
WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton NJ (PBS) begins broadcasting
05 Apr 1972
The regular MLB season fails to open due to a player strike for the first time in history 86 games are lost before the labor dispute settled
05 Apr 1972
Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
05 Apr 1973
NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs 1-19)
05 Apr 1974
Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers & Rohan Kanhai
05 Apr 1975
Letter for Queen Victoria closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
05 Apr 1975
Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit cosmonauts return safely
05 Apr 1975
129th Grand National Irish combination of jockey Tommy Carberry aboard LEscargot wins by 15 lengths from 72 favourite and 1973-74 winner Red Rum
05 Apr 1981
Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2621 penalty minutes
05 Apr 1982
Aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes with escort vessels left Portsmouth for the Falkland Islands
05 Apr 1982
43 year old St. Louis reliever Jim Kaat pitches 1 inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening 14-3 rout of Houston sets a MLB record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season
05 Apr 1982
Lord Carrington British foreign secretary resigns due to Falklands war
05 Apr 1983
NY Met Tom Seavers sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
05 Apr 1984
Human Comedy opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
05 Apr 1986
Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
05 Apr 1986
US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
05 Apr 1986
140th Grand National Richard Dunwoody aboard 9-year-old 152 second favourite West Tip wins by 2 lengths from Young Driver
05 Apr 1987
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Betsy King wins the first of her 6 major titles in a sudden-death playoff with Patty Sheehan with a par on the 2nd extra hole
05 Apr 1987
Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show
05 Apr 1989
Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
05 Apr 1990
NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
05 Apr 1991
Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
05 Apr 1991
Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia killing 23
05 Apr 1991
US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
05 Apr 1992
Search & Destroy closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 performances
05 Apr 1992
11th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62
05 Apr 1992
Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
05 Apr 1992
Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
05 Apr 1992
Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president
05 Apr 1992
Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia which would become the longest siege in modern warfare
05 Apr 1992
Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington D.C.
05 Apr 1993
55th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71
05 Apr 1993
73293 see the NY Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 9-1 in the season opener at Cleveland Stadium
05 Apr 1993
Construction begins on Clevelands Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
05 Apr 1993
A win and a loss for MLB expansion teams in their debut games Florida Marlins beat LA Dodgers 6-3 in Miami the Colorado Rockies lose to Mets 3-0 in NYC
05 Apr 1994
Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
05 Apr 1994
Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
05 Apr 1996
John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
05 Apr 1998
France thrashes Wales 51-0 at Wembley Stadium London for its second straight Five Nations Rugby Championship and Grand Slam fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 5 conversions and 2 penalties
05 Apr 1998
The Arizona Diamondbacks record their first win in team history with a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants in Phoenix AZ ends second-worst start ever (0-5) by an expansion team
05 Apr 1999
Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
05 Apr 2003
18th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
05 Apr 2003
156th Grand National 10-year-old 161 shot Montys Pass ridden by Barry Geraghty wins by 12 lengths from 2001 Welsh National winner Supreme Glory
05 Apr 2003
The Kansas City Royals become the first MLB team to begin the season 5-0 after losing 100 games the previous year beating the Cleveland Indians 2 - 1
05 Apr 2004
66th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Georgia Tech 82-73
05 Apr 2005
24th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Baylor beats Michigan State 84-62
05 Apr 2005
The Washington Nationals lose their inaugural season opener 8-4 to the Philadelphia Phillies first team to represent the nations capital since the Washington Senators left after the 1971 season
05 Apr 2008
161st Grand National 71 joint favourite Comply or Die wins in Irish jockey Timmy Murphys 11th attempt 4 lengths ahead of King Johns Castle
05 Apr 2009
North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyngsng-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
05 Apr 2009
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Brittany Lincicome eagles the final hole to win her first major title 1 stroke ahead of fellow American Cristie Kerr
05 Apr 2010
72nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Duke beats Butler 61-59
05 Apr 2011
30th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Texas A&M beats Notre Dame 76-70
05 Apr 2012
77-year old pensioners suicide outside Greek parliament prompts further protests in Athens
05 Apr 2012
International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship
05 Apr 2013
Japans Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years
05 Apr 2013
60 people are killed in Nigeria after a bus collides with an oil tanker
05 Apr 2014
167th Grand National Leighton Aspell wins aboard Pineau de Re sixth French-bred horse to win the GN
05 Apr 2014
Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire picks up the 1000th win of his MLB career as the Twins score a 7 - 3 victory over the Cleveland Indians
05 Apr 1945
World War II Dutch city of Almelo is freed by the Second Canadian Corps
05 Apr 1992
11th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Stanford beats Western Kentucky 78-62 Cardinal guard Molly Goodenbour MOP
05 Apr 1993
55th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71 Tar Heels 3rd title
05 Apr 1998
The Tradition Senior Mens Golf GC at Desert Mountain Defending champion Gil Morgan wins by 2 strokes from Tom Wargo
05 Apr 2004
66th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Connecticut beats Georgia Tech 82-73 Huskies forward Emeka Okafor named tournament Most Outstanding Player
05 Apr 2005
24th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Baylor beats Michigan State 84-62 Bears small forward Sophia Young is named Most Outstanding Player
05 Apr 2010
72nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Duke beats Butler 61-59 Blue Devils forward Kyle Singler 19 points
05 Apr 2011
30th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Texas A&M beats Notre Dame 76-70 Aggies center Danielle Adams scores 22 of her 30 points in the 2nd half
05 Apr 2012
A three-run homer by J.P. Arencibia off Jairo Asencio gives the Toronto Blue Jays a 7-4 win over the Cleveland Indians 16 inning game duration a MLB Opening Day record
05 Apr 2013
Baltimore outfielder Chris Davis becomes 4th player to homer in first 4 games of a MLB season 8th-inning grand slam propels Orioles to a 9-5 win over the Twins his RBI total of 16 a MLB record
05 Apr 2015
Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its Rape on Campus story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited
05 Apr 1906
Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates towns in the Naples province killing more than 100 people
05 Apr 1930
England cricketers dismissed for then record 849 v West Indies in 4th Test in Kingston Jamaica Andy Sandham out for 325
05 Apr 1952
106th Grand National Jockey Arthur Thompson and trainer Neville Crump combine for their second GN with Teal winning at odds of 1007 [1]
05 Apr 2015
ANA Inspiration Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Brittany Lincicome eagles last hole to force a playoff then beats Stacy Lewis on 3rd extra hole to win her 2nd major title
05 Apr 1939
Alexander Gretchaninovs 5th Symphony premieres at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia with Leopold Stowkowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
05 Apr 1943
Mortsel Belgium Allies target Minerva car factory used for repairing Luftwaffe planes for bombing raid collateral damage from missed targets kills 936 civilians Belgiums greatest loss of WWII
05 Apr 1971
WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
05 Apr 1982
British Royal Navy aircraft carriers Invincible and Hermes with escort vessels depart Portsmouth England for the Falkland Islands in response to the Argentine invasion
05 Apr 1982
Lord Carrington British Foreign Secretary resigns for his failure to foresee the invasion of the Falkland Islands
05 Apr 1989
Poland grants legal status to trade union Solidarno (Solidarity)
05 Apr 1991
Detroit Pistons Joe Dumaars ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
05 Apr 1991
Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched from the Kennedy Space Center Florida
05 Apr 1993
Construction begins on Clevelands Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
05 Apr 1995
Pages of Codex Argenteus (the Silver Bible) the oldest text in the Gothic language (5th century) stolen from Uppsala University Library Sweden in broad daylight (recovered a month later)
05 Apr 1614
Second parliament of King James I begins session no bills pass and lasts only 2 months and 2 days thus its name the Addled Parliament
05 Apr 1739
France and Prussia form an alliance against Austria over partitioning parts of the duchies of Jlich and Berg
05 Apr 1949
60 year old St Anthonys Hospital in Effingham Illinois catches fire killing 77 people
05 Apr 1982
43-year-old St. Louis reliever Jim Kaat pitches 1 inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening 14-3 rout of Houston sets a MLB record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season
05 Apr 2016
Icelands Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns after the Panama Papers leak show a conflict of interest
05 Apr 2016
PayPal announces it is cancelling a 3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation
05 Apr 2016
San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave
05 Apr 2019
OKC guard Russell Westbrook becomes first player in NBA history to average a triple-double for the third consecutive season during the Thunders 123-110 win at home over Detroit Pistons
05 Apr 2021
India records over 100000 new daily COVID cases for the first time more than half in the state of Maharashtra which begins a new lockdown
05 Apr 2021
Italy scraps its 1914 film censorship law that could ban films on moral and religious grounds
05 Apr 2021
Tropical Cyclone Seroja causes floods and landslides in southeast Indonesia and East Timor killing at least 113 people according to local authorities [1]
05 Apr 2022
Shanghai lockdown extended to cover the whole city as COVID-19 cases increase as China remains one of the last to employ a zero-Covid system [1]
05 Apr 2063
Earths 1st contact with the extraterrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
05 Apr 1944
World War II 145 RAF Lancasters bomb German aircraft factory in Toulouse France
05 Apr 1963
Beatles receive their 1st silver disc for Please Please Me
05 Apr 1987
Fox TV network premieres Married... with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show
05 Apr 2024
Russian Orsk city dam bursts amid flooding on the Ural river prompting thousands to evacuate there downstream and in border areas of Kazakhstan [1]
05 Apr 1566
Three hundred nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands submit the Compromise of Nobles petition to Margaret of Parma against the Inquisition and the enforcement of the placards against heresy
05 Apr 1585
Clemens Crabeels becomes bishop of s-Hertogenbosch
05 Apr 1762
British take Grenada West Indies from the French
05 Apr 1847
First civic public park Birkenhead Park designed by Joseph Paxton opens in Birkenhead England
05 Apr 1963
The Beatles receive their first silver disc for Please Please Me
05 Apr 1967
Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion and later arrested by the FBI
05 Apr 1971
Chicago an American rock band with horns begins a six-night eight-show sold-out run at Carnegie Hall NYC all shows are recorded and a live four-LP box set is compiled and released later in the year
05 Apr 1975
Soviet Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit cosmonauts return safely
05 Apr 1986
Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set at 121 meters
05 Apr 1987
Fox TV network premieres Married... with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show
05 Apr 1992
Thai General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as Prime Minister
05 Apr 1995
Pages of Codex Argenteus (the Silver Bible) the oldest text in the Gothic language (5th century) are stolen from Uppsala University Library Sweden in broad daylight recovered a month later
05 Apr 2024
New York region hit by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake with multiple aftershocks. One of the largest earthquakes for a century in the area. [1]
05 Apr 2025
Floods affecting half of Kinshasa capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo are reported to have killed 33 people amid claims the climate crisis is making flooding worse [1]
05 Apr 2025
Sciences 3 million Breakthrough Prize awarded to scientists who led development of weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy Daniel Drucker Joel Habener Jens Juul Holst and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen [1]