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.
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Alexios I Komnenos
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| {{<!--If this year is a leap year-->#ifexpr:{{IsLeapYear|{{CURRENTYEAR}}}}||'''[[Qingming Festival]]''' in the [[Chinese calendar]]; '''[[Cold Food Festival#Korea|Hansik]]''' in South Korea;}} | both refimprove |
| 1242 – Northern Crusades: In the Battle of 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 |
| 1614 – Native American Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, and was christened Lady Rebecca. | refimprove section |
| 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Crete, discovered a large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing Mycenaean Greek now known as Linear B. | outdated |
| 1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado hit Tupelo, Mississippi, killing about 436 people. | refimprove |
| 1976 – The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the repression of the Chinese regime nearing the end of the Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. | no footnotes |
Eligible
- 1081 – The Komnenian dynasty came to full power when Alexios I Komnenos was crowned Byzantine Emperor.
- 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.
- 1847 – Britain's first civic public park, Birkenhead Park in Birkenhead, Merseyside, opened.
- 1942 – Second World War: 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.
- 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.
- 2009 – The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns by other nations that 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.
April 5: Feast Day of Vincent Ferrer
- 1566 – A covenant of nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands presented Governor Margaret of Parma a petition to suspend the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.
- 1722 – Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to land on Easter Island.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1998 – Japan's Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (pictured), linking Awaji Island and Kobe, opened to traffic, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world to date with a main span length of 1,991 metres (6,532 ft).