What day of the week was April 5, 1900?

The day of the week April 5th, 1900 fell on was a Thursday. There were 10 days until Easter Sunday.

Joseph Louis François Bertrand the French mathematician (b. 1822) died on this day in 1900.

Archaeologists in Knossos the Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.