Today in History

April 5

1664 - Peace Treaty ofWestminster ends first Anglo- DutchWar.

1768 - The NewYork Chamber of Commerce is founded

1881 - Britain concludes Treaty of Pretoria with Boers, recognising independence of South African Republic of Transvaal.

1896 - First modern Olympic Games begin in Athens.

1930 - MahatmaGandhi ends a march toDandi in the Salt Satyagraha. 1933 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans the hoarding of gold in the US as it is stifling economic growth.

1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death in the US as atomic spies for Soviet Union. 1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister amid signs of failing health.

1958 - Fidel Castro begins ‘ total war’ against Batista government in Cuba.

1971 - Pakistan airlifts foreigners from East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, as fighting rages during a revolt.

1975 - General Chiang Kai- shek dies after 47 years in power, first in China and later in Taiwan. 1976 - James Callaghan becomes British Prime Minister following Harold Wilson’s resignation.

1986 - Two people are killed and 150 injured in a bomb attack on a West Berlin La Belle discotheque. 1992 - Iranian planes bomb an opposition base in the Iraqi desert on their first raid into Iraq since 1988.

1994 - Israeli troops start pulling out of Gaza Strip.

1995 - The new headquarters for Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry are inaugurated.

1999 - Libya hands over to the UN two former government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in 1988. 2000 - Yoshiro Mori replaces Keizo Obuchi as Prime Minister of Japan. 2008 - Zayed International Humanitarian Award is launched in Abu Dhabi.

2010 - Legendary England cricketer Alec Bedser dies at the age of 91. 2012 - The Saudi Arabia Olympic Committee announces that they will not endorse women athletes for the London Olympics.

2016 - Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson resigns in wake of Panama Papers scandal.