Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 5
This is a list of selected April 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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April 5: Palm Sunday (Western Christianity, 2009); Education and Sharing Day (United States, 2009); Feast Day of Vincent Ferrer
- 1242 – Northern Crusades: In the Battle of the Ice, Novgorod forces led by Alexander Nevsky rebuffed an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus on the present-day border of Estonia and Russia.
- 1614 – Native American Pocahontas (pictured) married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia, and was christened Lady Rebecca.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac engaged Confederate forces led by Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder at the Battle of Yorktown in Yorktown, Virginia.
- 1879 – A decades-long border dispute between Chile and Bolivia over control of the saltpeter-rich Atacama Desert and other territories escalated into the War of the Pacific.
- 1976 – The Tiananmen Incident, a protest against the repression of the Chinese regime nearing the end of the Cultural Revolution, took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
- 1992 – Bosnian War: Serb gunmen killed two people while firing upon a large crowd of anti-war protesters in Sarajevo, marking the start of the Siege of Sarajevo.