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May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 240 days remain until the end of the year.

Events
Pre-1600553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins. • 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. • 1260Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. • 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. 1601–19001609Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. • 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. • 1654Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh. • 1762Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. • 1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614. • 1809Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. • 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. • 1835 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. • 1862Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. • 1864American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County. • 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia. • 1866Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York. • 1877American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. • 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. • 1887 – The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded. • 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. 1901–present1904Pitching 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. • 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. • 1912 – The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published. • 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. • 1930 – The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago. • 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. • 1940World 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. • 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. • 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. • 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. • 1955 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect. • 1961Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. • 1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. • 1972Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. • 1973Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record. • 1980Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege. • 1981Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. • 1985Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech. • 1987Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States. • 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. • 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. • 2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. • 2007Kenya 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. • 2010Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis. • 2023 – The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency. ==Births==
Births
Pre-16001210Afonso III of Portugal (died 1279) • 1282Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (died 1348) • 1310Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (died 1376) • 1352Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1410) • 1479Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (died 1574) • 1504Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (died 1579) • 1530Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (died 1574) • 1542Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (died 1623) • 1582John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (died 1628) 1601–19001684Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (died 1739) • 1747Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792) • 1749Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer (died 1794) • 1764Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (died 1812) • 1800Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (died 1864) • 1813Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (died 1855) • 1818Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (died 1883) • 1826Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (died 1920) • 1830John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (died 1906) • 1832Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (died 1918) • 1833Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (died 1905) • 1834Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (died 1873) • 1843William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot (died 1900) • 1846Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916) • 1858John L. Leal, American physician (died 1914) • 1859Charles B. Hanford, American Shakespearean actor (died 1926) • 1864Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (died 1922) • 1865Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (died 1943) • 1866Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (died 1938) • 1869Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (died 1937) • 1869 – Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (died 1949) • 1873Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (died 1901) • 1874Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (died 1941) • 1882Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960) • 1883Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (died 1950) • 1883 – Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (died 1966) • 1884Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (died 1954) • 1885Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician (died 1924) • 1887Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1941) • 1889Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (died 1973) • 1890Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (died 1957) • 1892Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (died 1968) • 1898Elsie Eaves, American engineer (died 1983) • 1898 – Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (died 1959) • 1899Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (died 1982) • 1900Helen Redfield, American geneticist (died 1988) 1901–present1901Janne Mustonen, Finnish politician (died 1964) • 1903James Beard, American chef and author (died 1985) • 1905Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (died 1986) • 1907Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian (Ukrainian) journalist and author (died 1982) • 1910Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (died 1999) • 1911Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player (died 2010) • 1911 – Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist (died 1932) • 1913Duane Carter, American race car driver (died 1993) • 1914Tyrone Power, American actor (died 1958) • 1915Alice Faye, American actress and singer (died 1998) • 1916Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (died 1994) • 1919Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1999) • 1921Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999) • 1922Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian (died 2003) • 1923William C. Campbell, American golfer (died 2013) • 1923 – Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (died 2017) • 1925Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (died 1978) • 1927Pat Carroll, American actress (died 2022) • 1929Ilene Woods, American actress (died 2010) • 1932Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (died 2014) • 1933Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (died 1959) • 1934Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 2023) • 1934 – Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs (died 2022) • 1935Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor (died 2023) • 1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer (died 2024) • 1936Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (died 2001) • 1937Beryl Burton, English racing cyclist (died 1996) • 1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer (died 2001) • 1938Michael Murphy, American actor • 1939Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (died 2013) • 1940Lance Henriksen, American actor • 1942Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician • 1942 – Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998) • 1943Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter • 1943 – Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author • 1944Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer (died 2023) • 1944 – John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter • 1944 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (died 2015) • 1945Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic • 1946Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (died 2013) • 1948Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter • 1950Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer • 1952Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (died 2017) • 1955Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer • 1956Steve Scott, American runner and coach • 1957Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter • 1958Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster • 1959Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player • 1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1959 – Brian Williams, American journalist • 1960Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster • 1961Marg Downey, Australian actress • 1961 – Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician • 1963James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter • 1963 – Simon Rimmer, English chef and author • 1963 – Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer • 1964Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget • 1964 – Heike Henkel, German high jumper • 1964 – Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (died 2013) • 1964 – Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer • 1966Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer • 1966 – Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria • 1966 – Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer • 1967Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator • 1967 – Charles Nagy, American baseball player • 1967 – Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician • 1971Harold Miner, American basketball player • 1972James Cracknell, English rower • 1972 – Žigmund Pálffy, Slovak ice hockey player • 1972 – Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player • 1975Meb Keflezighi, American runner • 1976Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (died 2021) • 1976 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster • 1977Tiffany Roberts, American footballer • 1979Vincent Kartheiser, American actor • 1980Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer • 1980 – Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator, and vlogger • 1981Craig David, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer • 1981 – Danielle Fishel, American actress • 1982Vanessa Bryant, American philanthropist and model • 1982 – Corey Parker, Australian rugby league footballer • 1983Henry Cavill, English actor • 1985Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer • 1985 – Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer • 1985 – P. J. Tucker, American basketball player • 1987Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer • 1988Adele, English singer-songwriter • 1989Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor • 1989 – Agnes Knochenhauer, Swedish curler • 1991Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer • 1994Celeste, British singer • 1995James Conner, American football player • 1996Christopher Eubanks, American tennis player • 1996 – Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player • 1997Logan Gilbert, American baseball player • 1997 – Mitch Marner, Canadian hockey player • 1998Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player • 1999Nathan Chen, American figure skater • 1999 – Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer • 2003Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player • 2004Jenna Davis, American actress and YouTuber • 2004 – Kirsty Muir, Scottish freestyle skier ==Deaths==
Deaths
Pre-1600465Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan • 1194Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (born 1138) • 1243Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (born ) • 1306Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine general (born 1261) • 1309Charles II of Naples (born 1254) • 1316Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (born 1282) • 1338Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (born 1324) • 1380Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr • 1432Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer • 1525Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463) • 1582Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (born 1547) • 1586Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529) 1601–19001671Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (born 1602) • 1672Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist (born 1609) • 1700Angelo Italia, Italian architect (born 1628) • 1705Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1640) • 1714Nathaniel Lawrence, English politician (born c. 1627) • 1760Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (born 1720) • 1766Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684) • 1808Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (born 1757) • 1821Napoleon, French general and emperor (born 1769) • 1827Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (born 1750) • 1833Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (born 1777) • 1855Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (born 1786) • 1859Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (born 1805) • 1860Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (born 1804) • 1883John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (born 1818) • 1892August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (born 1818) • 1896Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (born 1839) 1901–present1901Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (born 1825) • 1902Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (born 1836) • 1907Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (born 1841) • 1913Henry Moret, French painter (born 1856) • 1916John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (born 1865) • 1916 – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (born 1866) • 1921Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864) • 1924A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (born 1853) • 1931Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899) • 1941Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (born 1874) • 1942Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (born 1920) • 1947Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (born 1917) • 1957Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (born 1878) • 1959Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878) • 1962Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (born 1889) • 1965Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (born 1915) • 1965 – John Waters, American director and screenwriter (born 1893) • 1971Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (born 1887) • 1973Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (born 1948) • 1977Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897) • 1981Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (born 1954) • 1983Horst Schumann, German physician (born 1901) • 1983 – John Williams, English-American actor (born 1903) • 1985Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (born 1901) • 1988Michael Shaara, American author and academic (born 1928) • 1993Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (born 1920) • 1994Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (born 1906) • 1995Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (born 1911) • 1999Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1920) • 2000Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (born 1914) • 2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (born 1940) • 2001Morris Graves, American painter and educator (born 1910) • 2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (born 1918) • 2002Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (born 1926) • 2002 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (born 1904) • 2002 – George Sidney, American director and producer (born 1916) • 2002 – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (born 1917) • 2003Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (born 1964) • 2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (born 1912) • 2006Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (born 1919) • 2006 – Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925) • 2007Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (born 1927) • 2008Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (born 1917) • 2008 – Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (born 1928) • 2010Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (born 1910) • 2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (born 1951) • 2011Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (born 1901) • 2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (born 1924) • 2011 – Dana Wynter, British actress (born 1931) • 2012Surendranath, Indian cricketer (born 1937) • 2012 – Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (born 1916) • 2012 – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (born 1932) • 2012 – George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922) • 2012 – Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (born 1950) • 2013Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (born 1935) • 2013 – Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (born 1937) • 2014Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (born 1926) • 2015Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (born 1935) • 2015 – Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (born 1942) • 2017Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (born 1954) • 2017 – Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (born 1953) • 2020Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1947) • 2024Jeannie Epper, American stuntwoman and actress (born 1941) • 2024 – Bernard Hill, English actor (born 1944) • 2024 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1938) ==Holidays and observances==
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