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May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of the year. more...

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553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins.; 1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.; 1494 - Christopher Columbus discovers the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.; 1640 - King Charles I of England disbands the Short Parliament.; 1646 - King Charles I of England and Scotland surrenders to the Scottish Presbyterian Army at Newark.; 1762 - Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.; 1789 - In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 150 years.; 1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.; 1809 - The 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 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), 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.; 1886 - The Bay View Tragedy occurs, militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.; 1891 - The Music Hall in 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.; 1902 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australian Public Service.; 1904 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.; 1916 - American marines invade the Dominican Republic.; 1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.; 1925 - Afrikaans established as an official language in South Africa.; 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.; 1940 - World War II: In London, a 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:German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation.; 1945 - World War II:Prague uprising against the Nazis.; 1945 - World War II:Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated.; 1945 - World War II:Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.; 1949 - The Council of Europe in Strasbourg is founded through the Treaty of London as the first European institution working for European integration. Since 1964, May 5 has been designated Europe Day by the Council of Europe and is celebrated since then to commemorate its founding on 5 May 1949.; 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-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.; 1964 - 5 May is declared Europe Day on the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe.; 1980 - Operation Nimrod: The Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege.; 1980 - Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece.; 1987 - Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings.; 1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, DC after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.; 1992 - The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.; 2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term.; 2006 - The government of Sudan signed an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).; 2007 - Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.; 2007 - Republic Protests in Turkey;

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