April 05

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

April 5, 1916

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

April 5, 1902

Spencer Tracy, the son of an Irish father, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

April 5, 1900

Birth in Dublin of Margaret Tennant, née Abraham; trade unionist and campaigner for improved working conditions

April 5, 1869

The Dublin-Belfast railway line is completed

April 5, 1855

Birth at Lesmahagow of composer Alexander Muir, creator of Maple Leaf Forever.

April 5, 1830

Scottish Insurrection of 1820 begins

April 5, 1820

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

April 5, 1818

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

April 5, 1806

King James VI leaves Edinburgh to travel to London.

April 5, 1603