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Events on the 5th of April in history

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05 Apr 0823 Pope Peschalis I crowns Lotharius I, co-Emperor of France
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05 Apr 0823 Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
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05 Apr 1058 Bishop John "Minchio, " [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X
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05 Apr 1081 Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
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05 Apr 1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats Teutonic Knights
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05 Apr 1242 Battle on the More of Pskov Estonia
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05 Apr 1242 During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
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05 Apr 1536 Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: The last Roman triumph.
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05 Apr 1566 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition
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05 Apr 1566 Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II.
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05 Apr 1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes Bishop of Hertogenbosch
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05 Apr 1603 New English King James I departs Edinburgh for London
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05 Apr 1609 Daimyo (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
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05 Apr 1614 2nd parliament of King James I begin session (no enactments)
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05 Apr 1614 Indian Princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
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05 Apr 1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
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05 Apr 1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
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05 Apr 1621 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
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05 Apr 1710 The Statute of Anne receives the Royal Assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
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05 Apr 1722 Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island
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05 Apr 1722 The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
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05 Apr 1739 French Emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty
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05 Apr 1751 Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself King of Sweden
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05 Apr 1753 British Museum forms (opens in 1759)
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05 Apr 1762 British take Grenada, West Indies, from French
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05 Apr 1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)
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05 Apr 1792 George Washington casts 1st presidential veto
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05 Apr 1792 United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
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05 Apr 1804 High Possil meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil.
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05 Apr 1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider
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05 Apr 1812 Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French and Spanish
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05 Apr 1815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
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05 Apr 1818 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.
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05 Apr 1847 Opera "Die Fledermaus" is produced (Vienna)
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05 Apr 1847 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park in Britain, is opened in Birkenhead.
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05 Apr 1861 Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Texas
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05 Apr 1862 Siege of Yorktown, Virginia
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05 Apr 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
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05 Apr 1865 Battle at Amelia Springs / Jetersville Va (Appomattox Campaign)
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05 Apr 1874 "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed (Vienna)
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05 Apr 1879 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
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05 Apr 1881 Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
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05 Apr 1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
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05 Apr 1893 Cleveland passes Park Act (forerunner of Metroparks)
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05 Apr 1894 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
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05 Apr 1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
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05 Apr 1896 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens
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05 Apr 1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
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05 Apr 1900 Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
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05 Apr 1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25
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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.
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05 Apr 1906 St. Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
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05 Apr 1908 British Premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
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05 Apr 1911 MCC tour match vs. Jamaica finishes in a tie
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05 Apr 1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
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05 Apr 1915 Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
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05 Apr 1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
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05 Apr 1919 Eamon de Valera becomes President of Dail Eireann
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05 Apr 1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana
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05 Apr 1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
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05 Apr 1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions
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05 Apr 1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur IL begins radio transmissions
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05 Apr 1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
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05 Apr 1923 Firestone Co put their inflatable tires into production
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05 Apr 1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires.
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05 Apr 1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
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05 Apr 1925 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer
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05 Apr 1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 and 200 m free style
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05 Apr 1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
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05 Apr 1930 England out for 849 vs. WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
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05 Apr 1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
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05 Apr 1932 Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
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05 Apr 1932 Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
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05 Apr 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.
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05 Apr 1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
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05 Apr 1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
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05 Apr 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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05 Apr 1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
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05 Apr 1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
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05 Apr 1941 In SF, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
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05 Apr 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.
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05 Apr 1943 Allies bomb Mortsel
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05 Apr 1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
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05 Apr 1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
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05 Apr 1943 World War II: American 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 one kilometer from the residential area hit.
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05 Apr 1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
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05 Apr 1944 World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
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05 Apr 1945 Almelo Netherlands freed
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05 Apr 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as Prime Minister of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
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05 Apr 1945 Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
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05 Apr 1946 Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation.
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05 Apr 1949 A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
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05 Apr 1949 Fireside Theater debuts on television.
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05 Apr 1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins
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05 Apr 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
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05 Apr 1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
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05 Apr 1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
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05 Apr 1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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05 Apr 1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Apr 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden succeeds him
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05 Apr 1956 In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
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05 Apr 1956 Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
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05 Apr 1957 In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
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05 Apr 1958 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.
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05 Apr 1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284
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05 Apr 1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
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05 Apr 1961 Dutch Governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
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05 Apr 1962 Mgr J Daems appointed Bishop of Antwerp
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05 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
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05 Apr 1962 St. Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss / Italians workers shake hands
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05 Apr 1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
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05 Apr 1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
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05 Apr 1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
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05 Apr 1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady, " Rex Harrison and J Andrews win
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05 Apr 1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
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05 Apr 1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
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05 Apr 1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
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05 Apr 1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
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05 Apr 1968 US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
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05 Apr 1969 Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
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05 Apr 1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
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05 Apr 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
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05 Apr 1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
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05 Apr 1971 US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
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05 Apr 1971 WNJT TV channel 52 in Trenton, New Jersey (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 Apr 1971 In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
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05 Apr 1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
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05 Apr 1972 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
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05 Apr 1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
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05 Apr 1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
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05 Apr 1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
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05 Apr 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 18 performances
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05 Apr 1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; Cosmonauts return safely
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05 Apr 1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of England
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05 Apr 1976 In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
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05 Apr 1979 Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
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05 Apr 1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
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05 Apr 1981 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
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05 Apr 1981 Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
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05 Apr 1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
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05 Apr 1982 Lord Carrington, British Foreign Secretary resigns due to Falkland Islands war
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05 Apr 1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
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05 Apr 1984 "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances
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05 Apr 1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
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05 Apr 1986 US soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
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05 Apr 1986 Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
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05 Apr 1987 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
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05 Apr 1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children and Tracey Ullman
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05 Apr 1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
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05 Apr 1988 Democratic Convention picks Michael Dukakis as their Presidential Candidate
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05 Apr 1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
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05 Apr 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
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05 Apr 1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
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05 Apr 1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row
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05 Apr 1990 New York Rangers beat the New York Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
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05 Apr 1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
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05 Apr 1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games
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05 Apr 1991 Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan
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05 Apr 1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
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05 Apr 1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
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05 Apr 1991 US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
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05 Apr 1991 An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and Astronaut Sonny Carter.
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05 Apr 1992 "Search & Destroy" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 46 performances
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05 Apr 1992 4th Seniors Golf Tradition: Lee Trevino
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05 Apr 1992 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
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05 Apr 1992 Dana Lofland wins Las Vegas LPGA Golf International
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05 Apr 1992 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees sweep New York Mets 6-5 at Shea
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05 Apr 1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as President
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05 Apr 1992 Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice
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05 Apr 1992 The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić on the Vrbanja Bridge.
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05 Apr 1992 Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
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05 Apr 1993 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
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05 Apr 1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0
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05 Apr 1993 Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3
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05 Apr 1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
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05 Apr 1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
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05 Apr 1994 Miami Heat beat the New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
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05 Apr 1994 American musician Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
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05 Apr 1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
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05 Apr 1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
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05 Apr 1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
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05 Apr 1998 10th Seniors Golf Tradition
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05 Apr 1998 Wins Longs Drugs Golf Challenge
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05 Apr 1998 In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
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05 Apr 1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
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05 Apr 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.
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05 Apr 2010 Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
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