May 5th Events |
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| May 5th, 2007 (May 05 2007) | Event | Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon. | |
| May 5th, 2006 (May 05 2006) | Event | The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). | |
| May 5th, 2005 (May 05 2005) | Event | The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair s Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term. | Tony Blair Quotes |
| May 5th, 1992 (May 05 1992) | Event | The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified. | |
| May 5th, 1991 (May 05 1991) | Event | A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after a Salvadoran man is shot by police. | |
| May 5th, 1987 (May 05 1987) | Event | Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings. | |
| May 5th, 1980 (May 05 1980) | Event | Operation Nimrod: The Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege. | |
| May 5th, 1980 (May 05 1980) | Event | Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece. | |
| May 5th, 1964 (May 05 1964) | Event | May 5 is declared Europe Day on the 15th anniversary of the Council of Europe. | |
| May 5th, 1961 (May 05 1961) | Event | The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes. | |
| May 5th, 1955 (May 05 1955) | Event | West Germany gains full sovereignty. | |
| May 5th, 1950 (May 05 1950) | Event | Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand. | |
| May 5th, 1949 (May 05 1949) | Event | 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 May 5, 1949. | |
| May 5th, 1945 (May 05 1945) | Event | World War II: German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation. | |
| May 5th, 1945 (May 05 1945) | Event | World War II: Prague uprising against the Nazis. | |
| May 5th, 1945 (May 05 1945) | Event | World War II: The Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated. | |
| May 5th, 1945 (May 05 1945) | Event | World War II: Admiral Karl Donitz, leader of Germany after Hitler s death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases. | Karl Donitz Quotes |
| May 5th, 1941 (May 05 1941) | Event | Chanel No. 5 is released. | |
| May 5th, 1941 (May 05 1941) | Event | Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day. | |
| May 5th, 1940 (May 05 1940) | Event | World War II: In London, a Norwegian government-in-exile is formed. | |
| May 5th, 1936 (May 05 1936) | Event | Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | |
| May 5th, 1925 (May 05 1925) | Event | Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. | |
| May 5th, 1925 (May 05 1925) | Event | Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa. | |
| May 5th, 1920 (May 05 1920) | Event | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested, accused of robbery and murder. | |
| May 5th, 1916 (May 05 1916) | Event | American marines invade the Dominican Republic. | |
| May 5th, 1904 (May 05 1904) | Event | 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. | |
| May 5th, 1902 (May 05 1902) | Event | The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates the Australian Public Service. | |
| May 5th, 1891 (May 05 1891) | Event | The Music Hall in New York City (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Quotes |
| May 5th, 1886 (May 05 1886) | Event | The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven. | |
| May 5th, 1877 (May 05 1877) | Event | Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. | |
| May 5th, 1865 (May 05 1865) | Event | In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place. | |
| May 5th, 1864 (May 05 1864) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. | |
| May 5th, 1862 (May 05 1862) | Event | Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla. | |
| May 5th, 1835 (May 05 1835) | Event | In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. | |
| May 5th, 1821 (May 05 1821) | Event | Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. | |
| May 5th, 1809 (May 05 1809) | Event | Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. | |
| May 5th, 1809 (May 05 1809) | Event | The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews. | |
| May 5th, 1789 (May 05 1789) | Event | In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 150 years. | |
| May 5th, 1762 (May 05 1762) | Event | Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. | |
| May 5th, 1640 (May 05 1640) | Event | King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. | |
| May 5th, 1494 (May 05 1494) | Event | Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| May 5th, 1260 (May 05 1260) | Event | Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. | |
| May 5th, 1215 (May 05 1215) | Event | Rebel Barons renounce their allegiance to King John of Englandied in This was part of a chain of events leading to the Magna Carta signing. | |
| May 5th, 0553 (May 05 0553) | Event | The Second Council of Constantinople begins. | |
