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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_5" title="April 5">April 5</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrer" title="Vincent Ferrer">Saint Vincent Ferrer</a></b> (Catholicism); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Food_Festival" title="Cold Food Festival">Hansik</a></b> in Korea (2023); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingming_Festival" title="Qingming Festival">Qingming Festival</a></b> in China (2023) 
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1847" title="1847">1847</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park" title="Birkenhead Park">Birkenhead Park</a></b>, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead" title="Birkenhead">Birkenhead</a>, England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966" title="1966">1966</a> – During the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_Uprising" title="Buddhist Uprising">Buddhist Uprising</a></b>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnamese</a> military prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Cao_K%E1%BB%B3" title="Nguyễn Cao Kỳ">Nguyễn Cao Kỳ</a> personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Nang" title="Da Nang">Đà Nẵng</a> before backing down.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashi_Kaikyo_Bridge" title="Akashi Kaikyo Bridge">Akashi Kaikyo Bridge</a></b>, then the world's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_suspension_bridge_spans" title="List of longest suspension bridge spans">longest suspension bridge</a>, linking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaji_Island" title="Awaji Island">Awaji Island</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe" title="Kobe">Kobe</a> in Japan, opened to traffic.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018" title="2018">2018</a> – Agents with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" title="U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Southeastern_Provisions_raid" title="2018 Southeastern Provisions raid">raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee</a></b>, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu%27tadid" title="Al-Mu'tadid">Al-Mu'tadid</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 902); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soetran" title="Soetran">Soetran</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1921); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Resnik" title="Judith Resnik">Judith Resnik</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949)</p>