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On this day: May 5th

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553 The Second Council of Constantinople begins.

1215 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John, King of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.

1260 Kublai 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.

1609 ''Daimyō'' (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Tokugawa shogunate, completes Invasion of Ryukyu of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.

1640 King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.

1654 Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.

1762 Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762).

1789 In France, the Estates-General of 1789 convenes for the first time since 1614.

1809 Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and yarn.

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 History of rail transport in Belgium opens between Brussels and Mechelen.

1862 Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.

1864 American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

1865 American Civil War: The Conclusion of the American Civil War was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.

1866 Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.

1877 American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota people into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel (United States) Nelson Miles.

1886 Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guard 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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1904 Pitcher against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox throws the first Perfect game (baseball) 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 Sacco and 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 March of the Iron Will Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1940 World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Battle of Hegra Fortress and Battle of Vinjesvingen capitulate to Nazi Germany 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 of Czechoslovakia.

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.

1961 Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital Mercury-Redstone 3.

1964 The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.

1972 Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.

1973 Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59⅖, an as-yet unbeaten record.

1980 Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.

1981 Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger strike, aged 27.

1985 Ronald Reagan Bitburg controversy the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.

1987 Iran–Contra affair: Start of United States Congress televised hearings in the United States of America

1991 A 1991 Washington, D.C. riot breaks out in the Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C. 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 Caning in Singapore in Singapore for theft and vandalism.

2006 The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.

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.

2010 Anti-austerity movement in Greece 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.

1210 Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)

1282 Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (d. 1348)

1310 Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal (Catholicism) and Bishop of Wrocław (d. 1376)

1352 Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1410)

1479 Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574)

1504 Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)

1530 Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (d. 1574)

1542 Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (d. 1623)

1582 John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1628)

1684 Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (d. 1739)

1747 Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)

1749 Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer (d. 1794)

1764 Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (d. 1812)

1800 Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)

1813 Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855)

1818 Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)

1826 Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)

1830 John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (d. 1906)

1832 Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (d. 1918)

1833 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (d. 1905)

1834 Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (d. 1873)

1843 William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot (d. 1900)

1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1916)

1858 John L. Leal, American physician (d. 1914)

1859 Charles B. Hanford, American Shakespearean actor (d. 1926)

1864 Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (d. 1922)

1865 Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (d. 1943)

1866 Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (d. 1938)

1869 Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (d. 1937)

1869 Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)

1873 Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (d. 1901)

1874 Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1941)

1882 Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960)

1883 Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (d. 1950)

1883 Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (d. 1966)

1884 Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (d. 1954)

1885 Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician (d. 1924)

1887 Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941)

1889 Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (d. 1973)

1890 Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (d. 1957)

1892 Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (d. 1968)

1898 Elsie Eaves, American engineer (d. 1983)

1898 Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (d. 1959)

1899 Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)

1900 Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d. 1988)

1903 James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985)

1905 Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (d. 1986)

1907 Iryna Vilde, Bukovinian (Ukrainian) journalist and author (d. 1982)

1910 Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (d. 1999)

1911 Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player (d. 2010)

1911 Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist (d. 1932)

1913 Duane Carter, American race car driver (d. 1993)

1914 Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)

1915 Alice Faye, American actress and singer (d. 1998)

1916 Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (d. 1994)

1919 Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1999)

1921 Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 1999)

1922 Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian (d. 2003)

1923 William C. Campbell (golfer), American golfer (d. 2013)

1923 Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (d. 2017)

1925 Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (d. 1978)

1927 Pat Carroll (actress), American actress (d. 2022)

1929 Ilene Woods, American actress (d. 2010)

1932 Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (d. 2014)

1933 Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1959)

1934 Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2023)

1934 Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Minister for Veterans' Affairs (d. 2022)

1935 Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor (d. 2023)

1935 Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer (d. 2024)

1936 Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)

1937 Beryl Burton, English racing cyclist (d. 1996)

1937 Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer (d. 2001)

1938 Michael Murphy (actor), American actor

1939 Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (d. 2013)

1940 Lance Henriksen, American actor

1942 Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician

1942 Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)

1943 Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter

1943 Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author

1944 Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2023)

1944 John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter

1944 Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 2015)

1945 Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic

1946 Jim Kelly (martial artist), American actor, athlete, and martial artist (d. 2013)

1948 Bill Ward (musician), English drummer and songwriter

1950 Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer

1952 Ed Lee (politician), American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (d. 2017)

1955 Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer

1956 Steve Scott (athlete), American runner and coach

1957 Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter

1958 Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster

1959 Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player

1959 Ian McCulloch (singer), English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1959 Brian Williams, American journalist

1960 Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster

1961 Marg Downey, Australian actress

1961 Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician

1963 James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter

1963 Simon Rimmer, English chef and author

1963 Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer

1964 Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget

1964 Heike Henkel, German high jumper

1964 Don Payne (writer), American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)

1964 Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer

1966 Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer

1966 Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria

1966 Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer

1967 Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator

1967 Charles Nagy, American baseball player

1967 Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician

1971 Harold Miner, American basketball player

1972 James Cracknell, English rower

1972 Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakian ice hockey player

1972 Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player

1975 Meb Keflezighi, American runner

1976 Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (d. 2021)

1976 Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster

1977 Tiffany Roberts, American footballer

1979 Vincent Kartheiser, American actor

1980 Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer

1980 Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator, and vlogger

1981 Craig David, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer

1981 Danielle Fishel, American actress

1982 Vanessa Bryant, American philanthropist and model

1982 Corey Parker (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer

1983 Henry Cavill, English actor

1985 Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer

1985 Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer

1985 P. J. Tucker, American basketball player

1987 Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer

1988 Adele, English singer-songwriter

1989 Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

1989 Agnes Knochenhauer, Swedish curler

1991 Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer

1994 Celeste (singer), British singer

1996 Christopher Eubanks, American tennis player

1996 Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player

1997 Logan Gilbert, American baseball player

1997 Mitch Marner, Canadian hockey player

1998 Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player

1999 Nathan Chen, American figure skater

1999 Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer

2003 Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player

2004 Kirsty Muir, Scottish freestyle skier

465 Gerontius (bishop of Milan), Archbishop of Milan

1194 Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (b. 1138)

1243 Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (b. )

1306 Constantine Palaiologos (son of Michael VIII), Byzantine general (b. 1261)

1309 Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)

1316 Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (b. 1282)

1338 Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)

1380 Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr

1432 Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer

1525 Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)

1582 Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (b. 1547)

1586 Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)

1671 Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain (b. 1602)

1672 Samuel Cooper (painter), English painter and linguist (b. 1609)

1700 Angelo Italia, Italian architect (b. 1628)

1705 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)

1760 Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720)

1766 Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)

1808 Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)

1821 Napoleon, French general and emperor (b. 1769)

1827 Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)

1833 Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777)

1855 Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)

1859 Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)

1860 Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804)

1883 John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1818)

1892 August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)

1896 Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)

1901 Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (b. 1825)

1902 Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (b. 1836)

1907 Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841)

1913 Henry Moret, French painter (b. 1856)

1916 John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (b. 1865)

1916 Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)

1921 Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1864)

1924 A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)

1931 Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)

1941 Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (b. 1874)

1942 Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)

1947 Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)

1957 Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)

1959 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1878)

1962 Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)

1965 Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)

1965 John Waters (director born 1893), American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)

1971 Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)

1973 Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)

1977 Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic) (b. 1897)

1981 Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army and hunger striker (b. 1954)

1983 Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)

1983 John Williams (actor), English-American actor (b. 1903)

1985 Donald Bailey (civil engineer), English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901)

1988 Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928)

1993 Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)

1994 Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906)

1995 Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911)

1999 Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)

2000 Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)

2000 Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)

2001 Morris Graves, American painter and educator (b. 1910)

2001 Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created ''CliffsNotes'' (b. 1918)

2002 Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)

2002 Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)

2002 George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916)

2002 Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)

2003 Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964)

2003 Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (b. 1912)

2006 Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)

2006 Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)

2007 Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927)

2008 Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)

2008 Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (b. 1928)

2010 Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910)

2010 Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951)

2011 Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901)

2011 Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924)

2011 Dana Wynter, British actress (b. 1931)

2012 Surendranath (cricketer), Indian cricketer (b. 1937)

2012 Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (b. 1916)

2012 Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (b. 1932)

2012 George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)

2012 Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (b. 1950)

2013 Sarah Kirsch (poet), German poet and author (b. 1935)

2013 Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (b. 1937)

2014 Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (b. 1926)

2015 Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935)

2015 Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942)

2017 Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954)

2017 Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953)

2024 Jeannie Epper, American stuntwoman and actress (b. 1941)

2024 Bernard Hill, English actor (b. 1944)

2024 César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1938)

Children's Day (Japan, South Korea)

Christian Calendar of saints:

- Angelus of Jerusalem

- Aventinus of Tours

- Edmund Ignatius Rice

- Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)

- Gotthard of Hildesheim

- Hilary of Arles

- Jutta of Kulmsee

- Stanisław Kazimierczyk

- May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Cinco de Mayo (Mexico, United States)

Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)

Europe Day (Council of Europe)

Feast of al-Khadr or Saint George (Palestinian people)

Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)

International Midwives' Day (International observance)

Liberation Day (Denmark, Netherlands)

Lusophone Culture Day (Community of Portuguese Language Countries)

World Portuguese Language Day (International)

Martyrs' Day (Albania) (Albania)

National Cartoonist Day

Ethiopian Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)

Revenge of the Fifth (see Star Wars Day)

Senior Citizens Day (Palau)

Soviet Press Day (Soviet Union)

Tango no sekku (Japan)

Missing and murdered Indigenous women # National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada and United States)

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