April 5, 1902

Disaster at English-Scottish football match at Ibrox Stadium when part of the flooring collapsed, killing 20, and injuring 200.

The 1902 Ibrox disaster was the collapse of a stand at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Govan (now part of Glasgow), Scotland. The incident led to the deaths of 25 supporters and injuries to 500 more during an international association football match between Scotland and England on 5 April 1902 as part of the 1901–02 British Home Championship.

April 5, 1818

Bernardo OHiggins defeats the Spanish at the battle of Maipo River, Chile

April 5, 1916

Patrick Pearse denies rumors of a possible rising to Irish Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill

The Irish Volunteers, also known as the Irish Volunteer Force or the Irish Volunteer Army, was a paramilitary organisation established in 1913 by nationalists and republicans in Ireland.

April 5, 1806

William Dool Killen, ecclesiastical historian, is born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim