5th April anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • Austria
  • "Birth of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor ."
  • 1908
  • India
  • "Birth of Jagjivan Ram, long-serving Indian politician ."
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Birth of Bette Davis, American film actress ."
  • 1909
  • United States
  • "Birth of Albert R. Cubby Broccoli, American film producer (James Bond)"
• event
  • 1982
  • Great Britain
  • British fleet sails for Falkland Islands
  • 1993
  • Great Britain
  • Britain’s Child Support Agency (CSA) began operating. Its main task was to collect maintenance payments from absent fathers.
  • 1998
  • Japan
  • Japan’s Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge – the largest suspension bridge in the world – opened to traffic.
  • 1999
  • Libya
  • "Libya surrendered two suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, to the UN for trial in the Netherlands"
• Death
  • 1907
  • Great Britain
  • "Malcolm MacColl died 1907 (born 1831). Church of England clergyman who attacked the anti-ritualist Public Worship Act of 1874 with his book Lawlessness, Sacerdotalism, and Ritualism (1875)."
  • 1998
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Cozy Powell, British rock drummer ."