April 5, 1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)
April 5, 1996 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days
April 5, 1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-semetic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
April 5, 1994 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden New York City for 347 performances
April 5, 1994 Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
April 5, 1993 55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Michigan 77-71
April 5, 1993 73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1
April 5, 1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to New York Mets 3-0
April 5, 1993 Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
April 5, 1993 Florida Marlins 1st game - beat Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3
April 5, 1993 Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad
April 5, 1992 "Search and Destroy" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances
April 5, 1992 Peru's President Alberto Fujimori suspend constitution and dissolved Congress
April 5, 1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched
April 5, 1991 U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq
April 5, 1990 John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row
April 5, 1990 New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
April 5, 1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
April 5, 1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
April 5, 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
April 5, 1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
April 5, 1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children
April 5, 1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
April 5, 1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
April 5, 1986 U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
April 5, 1984 "Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 13 performances
April 5, 1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
April 5, 1983 France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats
April 5, 1983 New York Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment
April 5, 1982 British fleet sails to Falkland Islands
April 5, 1982 Cards' Jim Kaat, pitches in record 24th consecutive season
April 5, 1982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
April 5, 1981 10th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nancy Lopez
April 5, 1981 Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes
April 5, 1979 Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
April 5, 1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
April 5, 1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 5, 1976 Harold Wilson resigns as James Callaghan becomes PM of England
April 5, 1976 Tom Stoppard's "Dirty Linen," premieres in London
April 5, 1975 "Letter for Queen Victoria" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 18 performances
April 5, 1975 Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely
April 5, 1974 Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai
April 5, 1974 Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in New York City (110 stories)
April 5, 1973 NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie QBs, 1-19)
April 5, 1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
April 5, 1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
April 5, 1972 Mets trade Ken Singleton to Expos for Rusty Staub
April 5, 1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
April 5, 1970 WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting
April 5, 1968 Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens
April 5, 1968 U.S. marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled
April 5, 1967 76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
April 5, 1967 ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit
April 5, 1966 WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft. Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
April 5, 1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win
April 5, 1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
April 5, 1965 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
April 5, 1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground
April 5, 1964 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open
April 5, 1963 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
April 5, 1963 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
April 5, 1962 Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premieres in New York City
April 5, 1961 Barbra Streisand appears on "Jack Paar Show"
April 5, 1961 Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
April 5, 1959 23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall, Jr. wins, shooting a 284
April 5, 1955 Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him
April 5, 1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
April 5, 1953 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
April 5, 1953 WEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
April 5, 1952 Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title
April 5, 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
April 5, 1950 Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins
April 5, 1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, Illinois (IND) begins broadcasting
April 5, 1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony
April 5, 1945 Almelo Netherlands freed
April 5, 1945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
April 5, 1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse
April 5, 1943 Allies bomb Mortsel
April 5, 1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
April 5, 1943 Poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days
April 5, 1941 In San Francisco, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses
April 5, 1939 Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
April 5, 1938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
April 5, 1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
April 5, 1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
April 5, 1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
April 5, 1930 England out for 849 vs. WI Kingston, Sandham out for 325
April 5, 1929 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
April 5, 1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 and 200 m free style
April 5, 1925 Belgian Workers Party wins parliamentary election
April 5, 1925 Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer
April 5, 1923 Firestone puts their inflatable tires into production
April 5, 1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque, New Mexico begins radio transmissions
April 5, 1922 WDZ-AM in Decatur, Illinois begins radio transmissions
April 5, 1919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
April 5, 1919 Heavyweight Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in Havana
April 5, 1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
April 5, 1916 French troops occupy Bois de Caillette
April 5, 1915 French begin Woevre-offensive
April 5, 1915 Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
April 5, 1911 MCC tour match vs. Jamaica finishes in a tie
April 5, 1911 Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer
April 5, 1908 British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns
April 5, 1906 St. Pius X encyclical "On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland"
April 5, 1905 James Barrie's "Alice-sit-by-the-fire," premieres in London
April 5, 1902 Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte," premieres in Paris
April 5, 1902 Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25
April 5, 1900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails