What day of the week was April 5, 1998?

The day of the week April 5th, 1998 fell on was a Sunday. There were 7 days until Easter Sunday.

Cozy Powell the English drummer (Black Sabbath Rainbow, The Jeff Beck Group, and Emerson, Lake & Powell) (b. 1947) died on this day in 1998.

In Japan the the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.