📜 This Day in History

April 5

• 919The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
• 1847Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
• 1944Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
• 1983In China, the People's Armed Police, primarily responsible for internal security, was founded.
• 2002In the first reported data breach, 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center.
• 2018Agents 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 on this day

• 1568Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)
• 1588Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)
• 1908Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)
• 1916Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (died 2003)