TODAY IMPORTANCE - 5TH MAY
553 Second Council of Constantinople (5th Ecumenical Council) begins
1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1430 Jews expelled from Speer, Germany
1494 Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage to the New World, sighted Jamaica and landed at Discovery Bay.
1640 Rise of the English Short Parliament
1646 King Charles I surrenders to Scotland
1726 16-year-old French ballerina Marie de Camargo premieres "Les Caractères de la Danse" at the Paris Opera Ballet.
1764 Smolny Institute established in St. Petersburg for noble girls
1778 George Washington appoints Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben as Inspector General of the Continental Army.
1789 The French Estates General meet at Versailles for the first time since 1614, called by King Louis XVI.
1792 Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre is commissioned to measure the meridian from Dunkirk to Rodez to calculate the exact length of the metre.
1795 Great Britain imposes a tax on hair powder - a fee of 1 guinea per year, which reduces its use.
1809 Jews from the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, are denied citizenship
1809 Mary Keys is the first woman to issue a US patent for straw weaving.
1835 King Leopold I of Belgium opens the Brussels-Mechelen railway
1840 Thomas Carlyle begins his famous lecture series "The Hero as Divinity", which he later compiles into his book "On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History".
1842 In Hamburg, Germany, a fire burned through the city for over 100 hours.
1854 British Commodore James Plumridge attacks Finnish settlements in the Gulf of Bothnia, killing civilians and destroying British-owned goods.
1855 The New York State Immigration Commission leases Castle Gardens (now known as Castle Clinton) in lower Manhattan to be used for immigration. [1]
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1861 Alexandria, Virginia - Federal troops abandon the city
The battle at Williamsburg, Virginia in 1862 was inconclusive
1862 French forces intervene in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
1863 Irish boxer Joe Coburn defeats American Mike McCool in the 67th round in his first defense of the US heavyweight championship in Charlestown, Maryland.
1864 Atlanta Campaign: 5 day battle begins at Rocky Face Ridge
1864 Battle between Union and Confederate ships at the mouth of Roanoke
1864 Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia (Germana Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
1864 North Georgia Campaign - Chattanooga to Atlanta
1865 First American train robbery in North Bend, Ohio
1870 The British and Foreign Society for the Advancement of Embossed Literature for the Blind accepts Braille as the best format for the blind.
1874 The Dutch Second Chamber passes the Child Labor Act
1877 Indian War: Sitting Bull leads his Lakota band to Canada to escape persecution by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1881 Anti-Semitic riots in Kiev, Ukraine
1886 The Bay View Tragedy occurs, when militia in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, fire into a crowd of protesters, killing seven.
1893 The Panic of 1893 caused a major crash in the NY Stock Exchange
1900 "The Billboard" begins weekly publication
1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in "modern" baseball, when the Boston Americans defeat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.
1905 Robert S. Abbott published the first issue of the "Chicago Defender" magazine.
1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco
1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publication (4/22 OS)
1915 German U-20 captures and sinks British schooner Earl of Latham
1916 US Marines invade Dominican Republic, remain until 1924
First African-American military pilot
1917 Eugene Bullard earned his pilot's license from the Aero-Club de France and became the first African-American military pilot (French Air Service).
1917 St. Louis Browns pitcher Ernie Cub beats the Chicago White Sox 1-0 at Sportsman's Park III
1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1920 Italian expatriate anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are accused of murdering an apprentice in an American shoe factory in Massachusetts, both are later hanged.
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1920 Polish troops occupy Kyiv
1920 US President Woodrow Wilson outlaws the Communist Labor Party
1921 First ranger hired for Cleveland Metroparks
1921 Small magazine published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
Fashion designer Coco Chanel's 1921 perfume Chanel No. 5 was released
1922 For 10 years with the New York GiantsConstruction of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, NYC began after the division of the Polo Grounds.
1924 Unions in the Netherlands end the Twenty Textile Strike
1925 Dayton teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1925 Detroit center fielder Ty Cobb hits 4 runs, 5 RBI and 16 home runs in a 14-8 win over the Browns at Sportsman Park III, St. Louis.
1925 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game hitting streak.
1926 Sinclair Lewis declines Pulitzer Prize for novel "Aerosmith".
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's First Symphony premieres in Berlin
1930 Amy Johnson flies - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1930 Australian cricket great Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 185 for Australia vs Leicestershire in a tour match at Illeston Road, Leicester.
1932 Japan and China sign a peace treaty
1936 Edward Ravencroft patents the screw-on bottle cap with pouring lip
1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa
1938 MLB Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Harold Kelleher goes 6 in 16 batters faced, Cubs score 12, both NL records by a hurler in the same inning
1940 Norway's government-in-exile is formed in London
1941 Two Fokker employees flee the Nazi-occupied Netherlands to England
1941 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia returns to Addis Ababa
1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Robert E. Sherwood was given for "There Shall Be No Night".
1942 British invasion of Diego Suarez, Madagascar
1942 America begins rationing sugar during World War II
1943 US Postmaster General Frank C. Walker invents the postal zone system
1944 Mahatma Gandhi is released from jail (again).
1944 - Soviet invasion of Sevastopol, Crimea
1945 Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria is liberated by the US Army's 41st Reconnaissance Squadron
1945 The Netherlands and Denmark are freed from Nazi control.
1945 Premier Garbrandi tells the Dutch on Radio Orange that they are liberated
1945 World War II: After Hitler's death, Germany's leader, Admiral Karl Dönitz, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
1947 Mississippi Valley floods cause 16 deaths and $850 million in damage
In 1947, Robert Penn Warren was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "All the King's Men".
1948 First squadron of jet aircraft in a carrier
1949 Detroit Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1949 KGO-TV Channel 7 San Francisco, California (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1949 Statute of the Council of Europe
1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns King Rama IX of Thailand at the Royal Palace in Bangkok.
In 1952, the "Lucy Dos a TV Commercial" (also known as "Vitamitevagamine") episode of "I Love Lucy" premiered, attracting 68% of the American television audience.
In 1952, Hermann Wouk was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Kane Mutiny".
1955 Indian Parliament accepts Hindu divorce
1955 The US conducts nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site
1955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1956 Brockshire boys football team formed at Damwood
1956 Jim Bailey (USA) runs a record 3:58.6 mile in LA, California
The 1956 Judo World Championships were held in Tokyo for the first time
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1957 Adolf Scharf (67) is elected President of Austria.
1958 KNME TV Channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
The 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to James Agee for "A Death in the Family".
1958 The United States conducts an atmospheric nuclear test at Eniwetak Atoll, Marshall Islands
1961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
The 1962 "West Side Story" soundtrack album went to #1 and stayed at #1 for 54 weeks, 20 more weeks than any other album.
1964 Secessionist riots in Quebec
1965 First large-scale US Army ground unit arrives in South Vietnam
1966 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Montreal Canadiens win back-to-back titles; Detroit defeated the Red Wings 3-2 in OT to take the series 4-2
1966 Willie Mays hits his 512th HR
1967 The Kinks release "Waterloo Sunset" as a single; reached #2 in the British charts
1969 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Night Force)
1970 The United States conducts nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site
1971 Race riots in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC).
1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; Killing of 115
1973 Columbia Records American singer-songwriter Paul Simonreleased their third solo studio album, "There Goes Rimin' Simon"; It includes the songs "Loves Me Like a Rock", "Kodachrome" and "American Tune".
1976 24 people die in a train collision in Skydam, Netherlands.
1978 Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose becomes 14th player to hit 3,000
1979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1980 Konstantinos Karamanlis is elected President of Greece for the first time.
1980 Lone Iranian Embassy siege ends at dawn with SAS and police storming the building
16th and final MLB preseason Meyer Trophy game before interleague play in 1981; The NY Mets beat the NY Yankees 4-1 to improve to 8-7-1
1981 After a 66-day hunger strike, 26-year-old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in Maze Jail. Nine more hunger strikers died in the next 3 months.
1983 The United States conducts nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site
1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced the selection of Cleveland, Ohio as the site of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum.
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1987 Detroit Tigers trail AL by 11 games, but win AL East
1987 France conducts nuclear tests at Murura Atoll
1988 Eugene A. Marino was installed as the first African American Catholic Archbishop in Atlanta, Georgia.
1989 Mike Tyson receives a second speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York
1991 A Salvadoran man is shot dead after being shot by police in Washington, DC. Riots broke out in the Mount Pleasant area.
1992 American country singer Tammy Wynette is hospitalized with a bile duct infection
Labor defeated the Conservatives in the 1994 British local elections.
1994 The North Yemeni Air Force bombed Aden in South Yemen
1995 Last basketball game at Boston Garden; The Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs 95-92 by the Orlando Magic
1997 "Married with Children" final episode on Fox TV
1997 Iridium-1 Delta 2 launch, successful
2000 Conjunctions of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon
2002 Jacques Chirac wins the French presidential election for a second term, defeating far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.
George Galloway was elected MP for Bethnal Green and Bow at the 2005 general election.
In the 2005 UK general election, Tony Blair's Labor Party was re-elected for a third consecutive term.
2006 The Sudanese government signs an agreement with the Sudan Liberation Army
2008 American/Columbia Records released Neil Diamond's twenty-seventh studio album, "Home Before Dark"; Top charts in the US, UK and New Zealand
2012 Nepal flash floods kill 17 and leave 47 missing
2013 An attack on a church in Ngilane, Nigeria kills 10
2013 5 people die in a limousine fire in Hayward, California
2014 China announced that it will improve Ethiopia's infrastructure in an effort to improve China-Africa strategic partnership.
2014 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Britain's Mark Selby defeats compatriot Ronnie O'Sullivan 18-14, becoming the first to win 3 world titles.
2015 Chris Stapleton's debut album "Traveler" is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album, 2016; Billboard Album of the Year, 2016)
2015 Archaeornithura meimanna, the oldest known prehistoric bird, is discovered.
2015 Scientists announce the discovery of EGS-zs8-1, the oldest and most distant galaxy known to man.
2016 Fort McMurray wildfires: Canada's Alberta province declares state of emergency as 80,000 people continue to be evacuated
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2017 US Vogue Editor Anna Wintour is Made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
2018 Childish Gambino [Donald Glover] release music video for new single "This Is America" to widespread acclaim
2018 Electric cigarette explosion kills one in St. Petersburg, Florida, first fatality from a vaping product
2018 Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson suffers a brain haemorrhage and is hospitalized; correct
2019 A Russian Aeroflot plane catches fire after an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, killing at least 41 people.
2019 King Vajiralongkorn is crowned King of Thailand, the first monarch to be crowned in nearly seven decades, during three days of celebrations in Bangkok.
2019 Oil tanker explosion in Niamey, Niger kills 55.
2019 More than three days of violent clashes between Israel and Gaza militants kill 4 Israelis and 23 Palestinians.
2020 Global confirmed cases of Covid-19 3.6Reaching 5 million, cases in the US exceeded 70,000, while the UK was the hardest hit in Europe with 29,427 known deaths.
2020 São Luís, in the state of Maranhao, becomes the first city in Brazil to enter lockdown due to Covid-19, as its health services struggle to cope.
2021 24 people die in one week of mass protests against government tax reform and poverty in Colombia
2021 Baltimore Orioles pitcher John Mane no-hits Seattle Mariners, 6-0, at T-Mobile Park, Seattle
2021 Canada becomes first country to approve Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 12-15 year olds
2021 Donald Trump's ban on Facebook has been put on hold for the next six months by the company's supervisory board
2021 Evidence of the first burial in Africa, of a three-year-old boy, 78,000 years ago, is revealed in a cave in Kenya [1]
2021 Possible eviction of Palestinian families from Jerusalem neighborhood sparks days of unrest in city, hundreds injured
2021 US President Joe Biden announces that the US will support the temporary lifting of patent protection for COVID-19 vaccines with the WHO.
2022 Karin Jean-Pierre appointed White House press secretary for President Joe Biden, the first black and LGBTQ person in the role [1]
2022 Sinn Féin, led by Michelle O'Neill, wins the most seats in a Northern Ireland election for the first time with 27 seats, compared to the Democratic Unionist Party's 25 [1]
A WHO study of global excess deaths in 2022 suggests that 15 million more people than usual could die, much higher than the official COVID-19 death toll of 6 million [1]
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