5 April

Birthdays on April 5th through history
1950 Agnetha Faltskog (singer - abba)
1947 John Webster (most important person born on 5 April throughout time ever -xxx)
1937 Colin Powell (military leader) (oh dear)
1934 Frank Gorshin (tv actor) (the original joker)
1926 Roger Corman (producer/director)
1921 Gale Storm (actress)
1920 Arthur Hailey (author)
1916 Gregory Peck (actor)
1908 Bette Davis (actor)
1900 Spencer Tracy (actor)
1856 Booker T. Washington (educator, author, founder of the university Tuskegee)
1649: Elihu Yale, Founder of American Yale University
1588: Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher

April 5th in History:
Noah's ark grounded, Mt Ararat (acording to scholars' estimate)
1895: Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested for "Gross Behavior"
1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for allegedly giving American atomic secrets to the USSR
1955: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns
1981: The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev goes to Czechoslovakia to discuss Polish crisis1982: A British Naval Task Force leaves for the Falkland Islands, which have been invaded by Argentina

UK Top 40 Early April 1967 (when someone was 20 years old...)
1 Engelbert Humperdinck Release Me
2 Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra Somethin' Stupid
3 Sandie Shaw Puppet On A String
4 Harry Secombe This Is My Song
5 Alan Price Set Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
6 Whistling Jack Smith I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman
7 Monkees A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You
8 Vince Hill Edelweiss
9 Manfred Mann Ha Ha Said The Clown
10 Beatles Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever
11 Cliff Richard It's All Over
12 Seekers Georgy Girl
13 Petula Clark This Is My Song
14 Val Doonican Memories Are Made Of This
15 Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich Touch Me Touch Me
16 Jimi Hendrix Experience Purple Haze
17 Four Tops Bernadette
18 Herman's Hermits There's A Kind Of Hush
19 Georgie Fame Because I Love You
20 Prince Buster Al Capone
21 Eddie Floyd Knock On Wood
22 Hollies On A Carousel
23 Supremes Love Is Here & Now You're Gone
24 Turtles Happy Together
25 Tom Jones Detroit City
26 Cat Stevens I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun
27 Troggs Give It To Me
28 Pink Floyd Arnold Layne
29 Dubliners Seven Drunken Nights
30 Dave Clark Five You Got What It Takes
31 Dusty Springfield I'll Try Anything
32 Monkees I'm A Believer
33 Small Faces I Can't Make It
34 Move I Can Hear The Grass Grow
35 Mike Sammes Singers Somewhere My Love
36 Harper's Bizarre 59th Street Bridge Song
37 Royal Guardsmen Snoopy Versus The Red Baron
38 Martha & The Vandellas Jimmy Mack
39 Tremeloes Here Comes My Baby
40 Mamas & The Papas Dedicated To The One I Love