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unusual facts about 5 April



1981 in Wales

5 April - Census (UK): Results reveal that the percentage of Welsh language speakers has fallen to an all-time low of 18.9% of the Welsh population and Gwynedd is the only Welsh county with a Welsh-speaking majority.


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2009 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 3rd Individual European Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Milan, Italy, on 29 March to 5 April 2009.

Adam Forster

Adam Forster aka Carl August von Wiarda (5 April 1848 Emden, East Frisia - 11 April 1928 Sydney), was a botanical illustrator and naturalist, who after a lengthy stay in South Africa, eventually emigrated to Australia.

Andreas Faber-Kaiser

Andreas Faber-Kaiser (Barcelona, 5 April 1944 - Barcelona, 14 March 1994) was a Catalan esoteric writer of German descent.

Beady Eye

"Flick of the Finger", the first song from the band's upcoming album debuted on Californian radio station KCRW in 5 April.

Bishopwearmouth

Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, a military leader during the Indian Mutiny, was born in Bishopwearmouth on 5 April 1795, as was Joseph Swan, famous for the invention of the incandescent light bulb, on 31 October 1828.

British Mediterranean Airways

On 5 April 2007, G-MEDL was used to return 15 British Navy personnel captured by Iranian forces from Tehran to London Heathrow.

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

On 5 April 2007, the Constitutional Court decided "The Romanian President's refusal to name a member of Government at the proposal of Prime Minister started a jurisdictional conflict of a constitutional nature.... The Romanian President has no right to veto, but he can ask the Prime Minister to renounce his proposal, if he observes that the proposed person does not meet the legal conditions required to be a member of Government".

Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine

Charles IV (5 April 1604, Nancy – 18 September 1675, Allenbach) was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 to 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis, and again from 1661 until 1675 (his death).

Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode

He died at Queen Square, Westminster, on 5 April 1799, and was buried on 13 April near his mother, in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey.

Countess Palatine Dorothea of Simmern

# Anna Elisabeth (b. Dessau, 5 April 1598 – d. Tecklenburg, 20 April 1660), married on 2 January 1617 to William Henry, Count of Bentheim-Steinfurt

Damat Ferid Pasha

Damat Ferid Pasha (1853 – 6 October 1923) (full name Damat Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha Efendi) was an Ottoman statesman who held the office of Grand Vizier during two periods under the reign of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI Vahdeddin, the first time between 4 March 1919 and 2 October 1919 and the second time between 5 April 1920 and 21 October 1920.

Edison Giménez

Mario Edison Giménez (born 5 April 1981 in Pedro Juan Caballero) is a Paraguayan footballer that currently plays for Colombian Primera A side Itagüí as striker.

Elnar Karimov

Elnar Karimov (born 5 April 1985 in Mingachevir, Azerbaijan SSR) is an Azerbaijani football goalkeeper who last played for Gabala in the Azerbaijan Premier League.

Emílio da Silva

Emilio Ribeiro Neves da Silva, known simply as Emílio da Silva; born 5 April 1982 in Dili, Timor Timur, Indonesia, is a footballer from East Timor who has represented AD Esperança since 2004.

Fabian von Schlabrendorff

He was the son of Carl Ludwig Ewald von Schlabrendorff (Berlin, 5 April 1854 – Detmold, 4 February 1923) and wife Ida Freiin von Stockmar (Buch, 27 September 1874 – 26 March 1944), a great-great-granddaughter of William I, Elector of Hesse by his mistress Rosa Dorothea Ritter.

Faika of Egypt

Faika married Fouad Sadek, a commoner Egyptian and a consular officer, in a civil ceremony on 5 April 1950 in San Francisco.

Francisco Keil do Amaral

He was the only son of Francisco Coelho do Amaral Reis, 1st Viscount of Pedralva by Carlos I of Portugal in 1904 (Sátão, Águas Boas, 3 August 1873 – 5 April 1938), 100th Governor of Portuguese Angola from 1920 to 1921, son of José Caetano dos Reis and wife Lucrécia Coelho do Amaral, and first wife, as her second husband, Guida Maria Josefina Cinatti Keil, daughter of Alfredo Cristiano Keil and wife Cleyde Maria Margarida Cinatti.

Frederico Filipe Teixeira Ribeiro

Frederico Filipe Teixeira Ribeiro, aka Zamorano (born 5 April 1982 in Felgueiras), is a Portuguese footballer who plays for F.C. Felgueiras.

Friedrich Ludwig Weidig

On 5 April 1834 Weidig was suspended from his teaching post and demoted to a small village called Ober-Gleen, now in Kirtorf, im Vogelsberg.

Geer van Velde

Gerardus van Velde, or Geer van Velde (5 April 1898 Lisse - 5 March 1977, Cachan, Paris) was a Dutch painter.

Hungary women's national rugby union team

On 5 April 2010 they won the ENTC (Emerging Nations Training Camp) Test European Championship 7's which was held in the village of Zánka, Hungary.

Irish Home Rule movement

With the collapse of the allied front during the German Spring Offensive and Operation Michael, Britain had a serious manpower shortage and the Cabinet agreed on 5 April to enact Home Rule immediately linked in a "dual policy" of extending conscription to Ireland.

Jairo Patiño

Jairo "el viejo" Patiño (born 5 April 1978 in Cali) is a Colombian professional football midfielder who currently plays for Cúcuta Deportivo.

Jean Chaput

He scored a double victory on 5 April, and one each in May and June 1917; the latter was shared with Joseph M. X. de Sévin.

Kidung Abadi

"Kidung Abadi" (Indonesian for "Eternal Ballad") is a song written by father and daughter team Erwin and Gita Gutawa for the Kidung Abadi Chrisye concert; the concert was held on 5 April 2012 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Chrisye's death.

Law Society of Ireland

The Law Society was formally incorporated by royal charter obtained from Queen Victoria on 5 April 1852, under the name of "the Incorporated Society of Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland".

Le Quoc Quan

On 5 April 2011, he was re-arrested along with Pham Hong Son when attempting to observe the trial of democracy activist Cu Huy Ha Vu.

Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery

In 1918, the division faced the German offensive in the First Battles of the Somme: Battle of St. Quentin (21 – 23 March), First Battle of Bapaume (24 and 25 March), and the Battle of the Ancre (5 April).

Maria de La Cerda y de Lara

# Robert of Alençon (1344–1377), Count of Perche, married 5 April 1374 Jeanne, daughter of Viscount John I of Rohan

Marina de Van

Tim Palmer "Don't Look Back: An Interview with Marina de Van," The French Review, 83:5, April 2010, pp.

Markus Hofmann

Markus Hofmann (born 5 April 1975 in Nabburg) is a professional memory trainer, a Keynote Speaker having received a manifold of achievement awards, associate lecturer and author concerning the topics Memory Training and the Brain.

Marly Marley

Marly Marley (5 April 1938 – 10 January 2014) was a Brazilian actress.

Max Meyer-Olbersleben

Max Meyer-Olbersleben (5 April 1850 in Olbersleben – 31 December 1927 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist.

Methil Devika

Devika is born to Rajagopal & Methil Rajeswari on 5 April 1977.She is having two elder sisters Methil Radhika & Methil Renuka who works as a journalist.Renowned writer Methil Radhakrishnan is her mother's brother.Writer V. K. N.'s wife Vedavathi is her mother's sister.

Military Ordinariate of Lithuania

Gintaras Grusas (appointed 19 June 2010 - named Archbishop of Vilnius 5 April 2013) Bishop Grusas, 51 (born 1961), was originally a technological consultant for marketing at IBM and was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Los Angeles.

Moestafa El Kabir

On 5 April 2011, Cagliari President Massimo Cellino announced that a deal had been made for the transfer of El Kabir to Cagliari for the 2011–12 Serie A season and had an option to him then for another three years to capture.

Nationalist Movements in India

The Salt Satyagraha was started by Mahatma Gandhi on 12 March 1930 from Sabarmati Ashram to 5 April until Dandi where he manufactured Salt, broke the Salt Law and started a nationwide Civil disobedience

Pat Barrett

On 5 April 1974, he won a tag team tournament with Tony Kontellis and won the Austra-Asian Tag Team Championship, a tag team title in Australia.

Patrick Blondeau

He is married to fashion designer Véronika Loubry, together they have two children, a daughter, Thylane Blondeau (born 5 April 2001) and a son Ayrton Blondeau (born 20 May 2007).

Peter G. Moore

Peter Gerald Mooore TD FIA (5 April 1928 - 14 June 2010) was a British soldier, actuary, academic and statistician.

Pham Hong Son

On 5 April 2011, he was rearrested along with Le Quoc Quan when attempting to observe the trial of democracy activist Cu Huy Ha Vu.

Princess Birgitta of Sweden

HSH Prince Carl Christian of Hohenzollern (b. 5 April 1962 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany), married to Nicole Helene Neschitsch (b. 22 January 1968 in Munich).

Quake 4

Aspyr Media published and released Quake 4 for Mac OS X on 5 April 2006, initially only for PowerPC based Macs, but then later as a universal binary compatible with both PowerPC- and x86-based Macs.

Richard Brett

He died in Quainton on 5 April 1637, aged 70, and is buried in the chancel of Quainton Church, which he served for 43 years.

Stensen

Henrik Stenson (born 5 April 1976), a Swedish professional golfer

Syed Talha Ahsan

In a BBC interview aired on 5 April 2012 Evan Kohlmann an American internet extremism expert, said of the websites to which the men are allegedly linked that '"Even today there are very few websites out there that have the credibility that Azzam publications still has now."'.

The Troubles in Belleek

5 April 1977 - Sean Prendergast (22), a member of the British Army (9th/12th Royal Lancers) was killed, in a Provisional Irish Republican Army landmine attack, on an Army armoured car, near Belleek.

Villyan Bijev

He appeared once for the first team, playing the last 8 minutes of a 2–1 away loss against Hansa Rostock on 5 April 2012, in the place of Adam Matuszczyk.