WHAT HAPPENED ON 5. APRIL
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Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government. (5. April 1932)

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. (5. April 1933)

Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi. (5. April 1936)

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. (5. April 1942)

World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit. (5. April 1943)

World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. (5. April 1944)

Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". (5. April 1945)

Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11-month occupation. (5. April 1946)

Fireside Theater debuts on television. (5. April 1949)

A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States. (5. April 1949)

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union. (5. April 1951)

Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba. (5. April 1956)

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. (5. April 1956)

In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister. (5. April 1957)

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. (5. April 1958)

Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. (5. April 1969)

In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike. (5. April 1971)

In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident. (5. April 1976)

Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany. (5. April 1986)

An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard. (5. April 1991)