Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 5

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 * 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first legislation in Great Britain providing for copyright regulated by the government and courts, received royal assent and entered into force five days later.
 * 1847 – Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
 * 1863 - New Zealand Wars: The invasion of the Waikato ended after the Kīngitanga forces of King Tāwhiao abandoned their pā at Te Tiki o te Ihingarangi and migrated east to what became known as the King Country.
 * 1902 – A spectator stand collapsed (pictured) during a football match at Ibrox Park in Govan, Scotland, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others.
 * 1933 – Nazi sympathisers attempted to kidnap two German-Jewish filmmakers in Liechtenstein.
 * 1936 – An F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people during one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
 * 1955 – Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, Winston Churchill retired as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
 * 1966 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
 * 1998 – The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (pictured), then the world's longest suspension bridge, linking Awaji Island and Kobe in Japan, opened to traffic.
 * 2000 – Fan violence broke out before a UEFA Cup semifinal in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.
 * 2002 - In the first reported data breach, 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center.
 * 2010 – An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years.
 * 2018 – Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.
 * Born/died this day: | Al-Mu'tadid |d|902| Ivan Kőszegi |d|1308| José María Coppinger |b|1773| Henry Havelock |b|1795| Jules Cambon |b|1845| Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine |b|1863|  Soetran |b|1921|María Blanchard |d|1932| Stephan Gip |b|1936| Julio Ángel Fernández |b|1946|  Judith Resnik |b|1949| Stella Creasy |b|1977| Olek |b|1978| Jim Marshall |d|2012