Historical Events on May 5, Special Events on This Day
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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
Here is a random list who born on May 5. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Todd Newton, American game show host |
| 1923 | Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (d. 2017) |
| 1907 | Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian (Ukrainian) journalist and author (d. 1982) |
| 1927 | Pat Carroll, American actress (d. 2022) |
| 1937 | Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer (d. 2001) |
| 1987 | Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer |
| 1991 | Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer |
| 1984 | Wade MacNeil, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1960 | Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster |
| 1966 | Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria |
Famous People Deaths On May 5
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 5. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1892 | August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818) |
| 2017 | Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954) |
| 1988 | Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928) |
| 1957 | Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878) |
| 1833 | Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777) |
| 2011 | Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901) |
| 1973 | Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948) |
| 1907 | Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841) |
| 1995 | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911) |
| 1962 | Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889) |
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