On April 5but in 1879, the Pacific war between Chile, Peru and Bolivia.
1722.- The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen arrives at a small island in the Pacific Ocean, which was named Easter Island.
1851.- Inauguration of the railway that linked the port of El Callao with Lima, the first to circulate in South America.
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1910.- Inauguration of the railway line between Chile and Argentina that crosses the Andes mountain range.
1927.- American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller sets three world records on the same day.
1928.- The English swimmer Mercedes Gleitze, pioneer in swimming across the Strait of Gibraltar.
1955.- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns.
1971.- The manifesto ‘I have had an abortion’ is published in France, written by Simon de Beauvoir and signed by 343 women, including prominent figures of French culture, which demanded the decriminalization of abortion, legalized in France three years later.
1989.- The Polish Government and the opposition reach the “round table agreements”, where they agree to legalize the Solidarity union and begin a democratic process.
1992.- Institutional coup d’état in Peru. President Fujimori dissolves Parliament and assumes all powers.
1998.- The 3,911-meter Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the largest suspension bridge in the world, was inaugurated in Japan.
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1999.- Libya hands over in Holland the two alleged perpetrators of the Lockerbie attack (Scotland), which caused 270 deaths. The UN suspends sanctions imposed on Tripoli in 1991.
2003.- Sixty-nine dead in clashes between inmates in the Honduran prison of ‘El Porvenir’ in Honduras.
2014.- The French socialist of Spanish origin Anne Hidalgo, first female mayor of Paris.
2018.- A federal judge decrees the imprisonment of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption.
1588.- Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher.
1900.- Spencer Tracy, American film actor.
1908.- Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor.
1916.- Gregory Peck, American film actor.
1934.- Roman Herzog, former German president.
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1937.- Colin Powell, American military man and politician.
1947.- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino politician.
794.- Georges Jacques Danton, leader of the French Revolution, guillotined.
1964.- Douglas Mac Arthur, American general.
1969.- Rómulo Gallegos, writer and former president of Venezuela.
1975.- Chiang Kai-Chek, Chinese general, protagonist of his country’s civil war and head of the State of Taiwan.
1976.- Howard Hughes, American magnate.
1994.- Kurt Cobain, American rock musician, leader of the group Nirvana, who committed suicide.
1995.- Christian Pineau, hero of the French Resistance and one of the “fathers” of the Treaty of Rome.
1997. Allen Ginsberg, American writer.
2008.- Charlton Heston, American actor.
