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, 2024 is the 96th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 270 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Friday.
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
- 1614 –In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
- 1904 –The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
- 1936 –Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- 1942 –World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches 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 and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
- 1949 –A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
- 1956 –Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
- 1976 –In the People’s Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident.
- 1991 –An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard.
- 1999 –Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
- 2009 –North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-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.
Who were born on April 5?
- 1622 –Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
- 1692 –Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
- 1816 –Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
- 1906 –Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
- 1951 –Dean Kamen, American inventor
- 1960 –Asteris Koutoulas, Greek/German event and music producer, filmmaker and author
- 1974 –Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor
- 1982 –Hayley Atwell, English actress
- 1982 –Kelly Pavlik, American boxer
- 1983 –Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer
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