Historical Events In April - 05

1941  On April - 05 in SF, Castro and Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses  

1941  On April - 05 in SF, Castro & Fillmore streetcars replaced by buses  

1942  On April - 05 hMS CORNWALL And HMS DORSETSHIRE sunk in the Indian Ocean south west of Ceylon by Japanese carrier divebombers, 190 men lost from 'Cornwall', 234 from 'Dorsetshire'  

1942  On April - 05 hMS TENEDOS sunk in harbour at Colombo, Ceylon - by Japanese carrier bombers.  

1943  On April - 05 allies bomb Mortsel  

1943  On this day in history poon Lim found after being adrift 133 days  

1943  The third and last "Macedonian transport" reaches the Treblinka "resettlement"; all are gassed on this day in history.  

1944  On this day in history 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse  

1944  Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90 on this day in history.  

1945  Almelo Netherlands freed on April - 05.  

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1945  On April - 05 kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki  

1945  Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer, dies at 41 on April - 05.  

1946  1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony on April - 05.  

1946  On April - 05 uSS Missouri arrives in Turkey to return the body of Turkish ambassador to the U.S. and to show U.S. support and willingness to defend Turkey.  

1946  On April - 05 vincent Millie Youmans, US composer (Tea For Two), dies at 47  

1948  On April - 05 wGN TV channel 9 in Chicago IL (IND) begins broadcasting  

1948  WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting on April - 05.  

1949  On April - 05 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham IL)  

1949  60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill) on April - 05.  

1950  Prague espionage trial against bishops & priests begins on April - 05.  

1951  On this day in history julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for allegedly giving American atomic secrets to the USSR  

1951  On this day in history julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death  

1951  Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death on this day in history.  

1951  Edward Rigby, dies at 72 on April - 05.  

1952  Henry Wittenberg wins his 8th AAU wrestling title on this day in history.  

1952  Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1953  On April - 05 babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open  

1953  On April - 05 wEYI TV channel 25 in Saginaw MI (CBS) begins broadcasting  

1954  On April - 05 elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"  

1954  On this day in history claude Delvincourt, composer, dies at 66  

1955  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns on this day in history.  

1955  On April - 05 winston Churchill resigns as British PM, Anthony Eden succeeds him  

1956  On this day in history in Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister.  

1958  On April - 05 ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.  

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1288  Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336) was born on April - 05.  

1472  On April - 05 birth of bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)  

1523  On April - 05 birth of blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)  

1588  Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan) was born on this day in history.  

1595  John Wilson, composer was born on April - 05.  

1598  On this day in history birth of laurentius Erhard, composer  

1604  On this day in history birth of charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)  

1622  Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703) was born on April - 05.  

0582  Death of Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512) on this day in history.  

0828  On this day in history nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77  

1168  Death of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104) on this day in history.  

1258  Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies on April - 05.  

1270  Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies on this day in history.  

1419  Death of Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350) on this day in history.  

1531  Death of Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop on this day in history.  

1605  Death of Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513) on April - 05.