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May 5
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May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (126th in
leap years). There are 240 days remaining.
The Northern Hemisphere is considered halfway through
spring (season) Spring on
May 5, since there are usually 92 days in that season of the year.
Events
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1260 -
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the
Mongol Empire.
*
1640 - King
Charles I of England disbands the
Short Parliament.
*
1646 - King
Charles I of England and Scotland surrenders to the
Scotland Scottish Presbyterian Army at
Newark, England Newark.
*
1762 -
Russia and
Prussia sign the
Treaty of St. Petersburg.
*
1789 - In
France, the
Estates-General of 1789 Estates-General convenes for the first time in 150 years.
*
1809 -
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a US
patent, for a technique of
weaving straw with
silk and
yarn thread.
*
1809 - The
Switzerland Swiss canton of
Aargau denies citizenship to
Jews.
*
1835 - In
Belgium, the first railway in
continental Europe opens between
Brussels and
Mechelen.
*
1862 -
Cinco de Mayo in
Mexico: Troops led by
Ignacio Zaragoza halt a
France French invasion in the
Battle of Puebla.
*
1864 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of the Wilderness begins in
Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
*
1865 - In
North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of
Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati), the first
train robbery in the
United States takes place.
*
1877 -
Indian Wars:
Sitting Bull leads his band of
Lakota into
Canada to avoid harassment by the
United States Army under Colonel
Nelson Miles.
*
1891 - The Music Hall in
New York City New York (now known as
Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
*
1893 -
Panic of 1893: Crash on the
New York Stock Exchange starts a
depression (economics) depression.
*
1904 -
Pitcher Pitching against the
Oakland Athletics Philadelphia Athletics at the
Huntington Avenue Grounds,
Cy Young of the
Boston Red Sox Boston Americans threw the first
perfect game in the modern era of
baseball.
*
1916 -
USMC American marines invade the
Dominican Republic.
*
1925 -
Scopes Trial:
Dayton, Tennessee, biology teacher
John Scopes is arrested for teaching
Charles Darwin's
Theory of Evolution.
*
1936 -
Italy Italian troops occupy
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
*
1940 -
World War II: In
London, a
Norway Norwegian government-in-exile is formed.
*
1941 - Emperor
Haile Selassie returns to
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as
Liberation Day.
*
1944 -
Mohandas Gandhi is freed from prison.
*
1945 -
World War II:
**
Germany German troops in the
Netherlands and
Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from
Nazism Nazi occupation.
**
Prague uprising against the Nazis.
**
Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated.
**
Karl Dönitz Admiral Karl Dönitz orders all
U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
** A
Japan Japanese bomb, launched by
balloon and called a
fire balloon, explodes near
Lakeview, Oregon Lakeview,
Oregon,
United States, killing a woman and five children who were examining it during a church picnic.
*
1949 - The
Council of Europe is formed.
*
1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King
Rama IX of Thailand.
*
1954 - A
coup d'état carries General
Alfredo Stroessner to power in
Paraguay.
*
1955 -
West Germany gains full sovereignty.
*
1961 -
Mercury program:
Mercury 3 –
Alan Shepard becomes the first
United States American to travel into
outer space space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
*
1978 -
Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds hits his 3000th major league hit.
*
1980 -
Operation Nimrod: The
Special Air Service storm the
Iranian
embassy in
London after a six day siege.
*
1987 -
Iran-Contra affair: Start of
Congress of the United States Congressional televised hearings.
*
1990 -
Capital punishment:
Jesse Tafero is executed in
Florida after three
electric chair malfunctions cause flames to shoot from his
head (anatomy) head.
*
1991 - A
1991 Washington, DC riot riot breaks out in the
Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC Mt. Pleasant section of
Washington, DC after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.
*
1992 -
Wolfenstein 3D is released, the first-ever
first-person shooter computer game.
*
1994 - American
Michael P. Fay is caned in
Singapore as punishment for spray-painting two cars.
*
2005 - The
United Kingdom general election, 2005 United Kingdom general election takes place, in which
Tony Blair Tony Blair's Labour Party (UK) Labour Party are re-elected for a third, consecutive term.
Births
*
867 -
Uda,
Emperor of Japan (d.
931)
*
1210 - King
Afonso III of Portugal (d.
1279)
*
1546 -
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d.
1623)
*
1747 -
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d.
1792)
*
1764 -
Robert Craufurd, British general (d.
1812)
*
1813 -
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d.
1855)
*
1818 -
Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d.
1883)
*
1826 -
Empress Eugenie of France, wife of
Napoleon III of France Napoleon III (d.
1920)
*
1832 -
H.H. Bancroft, American historian and publisher (d.
1918)
*
1833 -
Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d.
1905)
*
1846 -
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1916)
*
1865 -
Elizabeth Jane Cochran, American journalist and writer (d.
1922)
*
1866 -
Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (d.
1938)
*
1869 -
Hans Pfitzner, Russian-born composer (d.
1949)
*
1883 -
Archibald Wavell, British general (d.
1950)
*
1887 -
Geoffrey Fisher,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1972)
*
1890 -
Christopher Morley, American writer (d.
1957)
*
1901 -
Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d.
1959)
*
1903 -
James Beard, American chef and cookbook writer (d.
1985)
*
1908 -
Kurt Böhme, German bass (d.
1989)
*
1914 -
Tyrone Power, American actor (d.
1958)
*
1915 -
Alice Faye, American actress (d.
1998)
*
1916 -
Zail Singh, President of India (d.
1994)
*
1921 -
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1999)
*
1923 -
Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (d.
2003)
*
1926 -
Ann B. Davis, American actress
*
1935 -
Douglas Marland, American television writer (d.
1993)
*
1936 -
Patrick Gowers, British composer
*
1941 -
Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d.
2004)
*
1942 -
Marc Alaimo, American actor
*
1943 -
Michael Palin, British writer, actor, and comedian
*
1944 -
Roger Rees, Welsh actor
*
1944 -
John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
*
1952 -
Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (d.
2005)
*
1954 -
Dave Spector, American television personality and commentator
*
1955 -
Wil Harris, American drummer
*
1957 -
Richard E. Grant, British actor
*
1963 -
James LaBrie, American singer (
Dream Theater)
*
1966 -
Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (
Megadeth)
*
1971 -
David Reilly, American Singer (
God Lives Underwater), (d.
2005)
*
1972 -
Devin Townsend, Canadian musician (
Strapping Young Lad)
*
1976 -
Juan Pablo SorÃn, Argentine footballer
*
1979 -
Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
*
1981 -
Craig David,British R&B singer
*
1982 -
Jay Bothroyd, English footballer
*
1982 -
Jonathan Bahr, Australian Stockmarket Prodigy
*
1984 -
Wade MacNeil, Canadian Guitarist (
Alexisonfire)
*
1987 -
John Gotti Agnello, Son of columnist and author Victoria Gotti and grandson of mobster John Gotti
*
1989 -
Chris Brown (singer) Chris Brown - American singer
Deaths
*
311 -
Galerius,
Roman Emperor
*
1028 - King
Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia
*
1192 - Duke
Ottokar IV of Styria (b.
1163)
*
1194 - King
Casimir II of Poland (b.
1138)
*
1219 - King
Leo II of Armenia (b.
1150)
*
1309 - King
Charles II of Naples
*
1525 -
Frederick III of Saxony (b.
1463)
*
1586 -
Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b.
1529)
*
1604 -
Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b.
1533)
*
1671 -
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b.
1602)
*
1672 -
Samuel Cooper, English painter (b.
1609)
*
1705 -
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1640)
*
1760 -
Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b.
1720)
*
1766 -
Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b.
1684)
*
1808 -
Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b.
1757)
*
1811 -
Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b.
1734)
*
1821 -
Napoleon I of France (b.
1769)
*
1827 -
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b.
1750)
*
1855 -
Robert Inglis Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b.
1786)
*
1859 -
Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b.
1805)
*
1900 -
Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b.
1817)
*
1921 -
Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1864)
*
1947 -
Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b.
1917)
*
1959 -
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1878)
*
1962 -
Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b.
1889)
*
1971 -
Violet Jessop,
RMS Titanic Titanic survivor (b.
1887)
*
1981 -
Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b.
1954)
*
1985 -
Donald Bailey Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b.
1901)
*
1988 -
Michael Shaara, American author (b.
1928)
*
1992 -
Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.
1927)
*
1995 -
Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b.
1911)
*
1997 in film 1997 -
Walter Gotell, German actor (b.
1924)
*
2001 -
Cliff Hillegass, American writer and publisher
*
2003 -
Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b.
1912)
Holidays and observances
*
Ascension Ascension Day in
Western Christianity (
2005)
*
Feast day of the following
saints in the
Roman Catholic Church:
**
Saint Angelus (d. 1222)
**
Pius V (1505-1572)
**
Jutta of Kulmsee or Saint Judith of Prussia (d. 1260)
**
Aventinus (d. 1189)
**
Saint Gerontius (d. 472)
**
Nicetius
**
Hilary of Arles (d. 449)
*
Denmark: Liberation Day (
1945)
*
The Netherlands:
May 5, Liberation day (
1945)
*
Ethiopia: Liberation Day (
1941)
*
Northern Territory,
Australia: May Day
*
Japan:
Tango no Sekku (Boy's Day) or
Kodomo no hi (Children's Day)
*
Mexico and the Southwestern
United States:
Cinco de Mayo (
1862)
*
Guyana: Indian Immigration Day (
1838)
*
Council of Europe:
Europe Day
*
Albania: Martyrs' Day
*
South Korea: Children's Day
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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''The New York Times'': On This Day
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April 5 -
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historical anniversaries listing of all days
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