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Events on April 5

• 1722 Dutch seafarer Jakob Roggeveen becomes the first European to discover the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui and gives it the name Easter Island. The travel account by the German Carl Friedrich Behrens, who traveled along, made the island and the statues on it known in Europe.
• 1794 The Indulgents, a moderate faction of the Cordeliers Club under the leadership of Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins, are executed before the Revolutionary Tribunal after just three days of trial, for their efforts to end the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
• 1874 The operetta The Bat by Johann Strauss, with the libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. It is regarded as the pinnacle of the classical Viennese operetta.
• 1908 The first official international match of the German national football team takes place in Basel. The German Empire loses to Switzerland with a score of 3:5.
• 1945 American units liberate the Nazi forced labor camp Ohrdruf during the Second World War. It is the first liberated camp with surviving prisoners who can give an account of their fate.
• 1963 The ARD begins with the broadcast of the report from Bonn, which will henceforth discuss political topics from the German federal capital every Friday. In the first broadcast, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer states in an interview: “I am going in the fall.”
• 1986 The bombing of the discotheque La Belle in West Berlin, which is popular with U.S. soldiers, claims three lives. The Libyan government under Muammar al-Gaddafi is later identified as the instigator of the terror attack.
• 1989 The trade union Solidarity, which was banned when martial law was imposed in 1981, is legalized again following the Round Table talks in Poland.
• 1990 18 days after the first free elections to the People's Chamber of the GDR, the chamber holds its constituent session and elects CDU deputy Sabine Bergmann-Pohl as its president.
• 1992 With the capture of Sarajevo International Airport in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Yugoslav People's Army, the siege of Sarajevo begins and will last until 29 February 1996. At 1,425 days, it is the longest siege of the 20th century.
• 1998 The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge between the Tarumi-ku district of Kōbe on the Japanese main island of Honshū and the town of Awaji on the island of Awaji-shima, the suspension bridge with the world's longest unsupported center span, is opened to traffic. Construction took more than 10 years.
• 2012 The Russian arms dealer Wiktor But, known as the “Merchant of Death,” is sentenced to 25 years in prison by a U.S. court.

Born on April 5

• 1875 Blumepeter, Mannheim local legend
• 1900 Spencer Tracy, American film actor
• 1901 Curt Bois, German actor
• 1911 Erich Kästner, German designer
• 1941 Hans-Werner Bussinger, German dubbing actor and actor
• 1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer
• 1950 Harpo, Swedish pop singer
• 1960 Peter Kurth, German politician
• 1980 Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer
• 1981 Lucy Scherer, German musical actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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