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What Happened on May 5th This Day in History

Year	Name
2010	Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
2007	Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
2006	The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
1994	The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994	American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
1991	A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1987	Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
1985	Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
1981	Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1980	Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1973	Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2⁄5, an as-yet u
1972	Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1964	The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1961	Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1955	The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
1946	The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1945	World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
1945	World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
1945	World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
1941	Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1940	World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
1936	Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1930	The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.
1920	Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1905	The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1904	Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1891	The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1886	Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.
1877	American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1866	Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1865	American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
1864	American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
1862	Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1835	The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1821	Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1821	The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.
1809	Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1789	In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1762	Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1654	Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
1640	King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1609	Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1494	On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
1260	Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1215	Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
553	The Second Council of Constantinople begins.

Famous People Born on May 5

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Year	Name
1883	Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (d. 1966)
1887	Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941)
1976	Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (d. 2021)
1970	Todd Newton, American game show host
1955	Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer
1948	Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter
1843	William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot (d. 1900)
1764	Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (d. 1812)
1946	Aydın Menderes, Turkish politician (d. 2011)
1999	Nathan Chen, American figure skater

Famous People Deaths On May 5

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Date	Name
1999	Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
1316	Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (b. 1282)
2000	Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
1671	Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (b. 1602)
1892	August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
1993	Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)
1907	Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841)
2010	Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
1700	Angelo Italia, Italian architect (b. 1628)
1808	Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)