Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 5

This is a list of selected April 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
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  Pocahontas
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  Winston Churchill
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  Naval battle during the War of the Pacific
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  Margaret of Parma
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  Alexios I Komnenos
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  Birkenhead Park
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  Upper Big Branch Mine disaster Miners Memorial
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  The collapsed stand at Ibrox Park

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1242 – Northern Crusades: In the Battle on the Ice, Novgorod forces led by Alexander Nevsky rebuffed an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus on the present-day border of Estonia and Russia.	refimprove
1566 – A covenant of nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands presented Governor Margaret of Parma a petition to suspend the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.	unreferenced section
1609 – Forces of the Japanese feudal domain of Satsuma captured the castle on Ryukyu Island, beginning the process that turned the Ryukyu Kingdom into a vassal state under Satsuma.	refimprove section
1722 – Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to land on Easter Island.	lots of CN tags (8)
1862 – American Civil War: Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac engaged Confederate forces led by Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder at the Battle of Yorktown in Yorktown, Virginia.	refimprove section, citation problems
1900 – Archaeologists led by Arthur Evans in Knossos, Crete, discovered a large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing Mycenaean Greek now known as Linear B.	outdated
1942 – World War II: Carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the Easter Sunday Raid on Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the British Eastern Fleet in an attempt to drive the Commonwealth naval force from the Indian Ocean.	refimprove
1958 – In one of the first live Canadian national television broadcasts, Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in Discovery Passage, British Columbia, was destroyed in a planned explosion.	refimprove section
1992 – Bosnian War: Unidentified gunmen killed two people while firing upon a large crowd of anti-war protesters in Sarajevo, marking the start of the four-year-long Siege of Sarajevo.	refimprove
* 1976 – The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the Chinese regime triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai near the end of the Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.	Too many citation needed tags

Eligible

• 919 – The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
• 1614 – Native American Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
• 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first legislation in Great Britain providing for copyright regulated by the government and courts, received royal assent and entered into force five days later.
• 1902 – A spectator stand collapsed (pictured) during a Scotland–England football match at Ibrox Park, Govan, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others.
• 1936 – An F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people during one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• 1944 – Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
• 1955 – Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, Winston Churchill retired as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1986 – The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
• 2000 – Fan violence broke out before a UEFA Cup semi-final in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.
• 2009 – The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
• 2010 – An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years.
• Born/died this day: | Al-Nuwayri |b|1279|Ivan Kőszegi |d|1308| Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet |b|1769| José María Coppinger |b|1773| Henry Havelock |b|1795| Jules Cambon |b|1845| Thure de Thulstrup |b|1848| Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine |b|1863| Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jetté |d|1864| María Blanchard |d|1932| Stephan Gip |b|1936| Julio Ángel Fernández |b|1946| Stella Creasy |b|1977| Olek |b|1978| Kurt Cobain |d|1994 Jim Marshall |d|2012

Notes

• 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak appears on March 28 and April 2, 2006 tornado outbreak appears on April 2 and Super Outbreak appears on April 3, so 1936 tornado should not appear in the same year

April 5: Feast day of Saint Vincent Ferrer (Catholicism); Hansik in Korea (2023); Qingming Festival in China (2023)

Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

• 1847 – Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
• 1966 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
• 1998 – The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (pictured), then the world's longest suspension bridge, linking Awaji Island and Kobe in Japan, opened to traffic.
• 2018 – Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.

• Al-Mu'tadid (d. 902)
• Soetran (b. 1921)
• Judith Resnik (b. 1949)

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