April 5
People born on this day are Aries.
- 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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The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
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Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
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Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
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In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
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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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The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.
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North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite. 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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Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.
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Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
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Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the International Space Station.
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Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.
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2003Tetairoa McMillan, American football player
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2001Johnny Beecher, American ice hockey player
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1999Bobby Miller, American baseball player
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1998Nathan Broadhead, Welsh football player
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1997Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
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1997Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler
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1995Daniel Caesar, Canadian singer-songwriter
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1995Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
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1995Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
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1995Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer
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1994Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player
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1994Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer
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