Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: April 5
April 5, 2025 is the 95th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aries is your zodiac sign. Diamond is your modern birthstone. Opal is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: April 5
- 1792 –U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
- 1879 –Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
- 1933 –U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.
- 1936 –Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 1946 –Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation.
- 1957 –In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
- 1999 –Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
- 2007 –Georgia establishes a Provisional Administrative Entity in the disputed region of South Ossetia.
- 2010 –Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
Who were born on April 5?
- 1523 –Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
- 1857 –Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria (d. 1893)
- 1872 –Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
- 1901 –Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1946 –Jane Asher, British actress
- 1955 –Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
- 1960 –Asteris Koutoulas, Greek/German event and music producer, filmmaker and author
- 1976 –Ross Gload, American baseball player
- 1978 –Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
- 1978 –Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
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