What Happened on April 5, 2021

• 82nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Baylor Bears become second consecutive first-time NCAA champions with 86–70 over previously undefeated Gonzaga Bulldogs
• India records over 100,000 new daily COVID cases for the first time, more than half in the state of Maharashtra, which begins a new lockdown
• Italy scraps its 1914 film censorship law that could ban films on moral and religious grounds

• Tropical Cyclone Seroja causes floods and landslides in southeast Indonesia and East Timor, killing at least 113 people according to local authorities [1]

• Paul Ritter [Simon Paul Adams], British actor (Friday Night Dinner; Chernobyl; Quantum of Solace), dies of a brain tumor at 54
• Philip K Chapman, Australian astronaut (Apollo 14 support), dies at 86

Holidays: Easter Monday (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom)

• #1 Song: Montero (Call Me By Your Name) - Lil Nas X