What Happened on May 5
Historical Events
- 1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire
- 1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
- 1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
- 1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
- 1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building
- 1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.
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May 5 in Film & TV
- 2018 Childish Gambino [Donald Glover] releases the music video to new single "This is America" to wide acclaim
May 5 in Music
- 1891 Music Hall (now Carnegie Hall) opens in New York City, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of teh New York Music Society Orchestra
May 5 in Sport
- 1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in "modern" baseball as the Boston Americans beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0
- 1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign #1 NBA Draft pick, star UCLA center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
Leopold II
Karl Marx
Tammy Wynette
Henry Cavill
Adele
Chris Brown
Would You Believe?
"West Side Story" soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
On May 5, 1962
Famous Weddings
- 1761 Jurist William Blackstone (37) weds Sarah Clitherow
- 1797 Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
- 1885 Author Gerhart Hauptmann (22) weds Marie Thienemann
More Weddings
Napoléon Bonaparte
Leo Diegel
Carlos Saavedra LamasArticles, Photos and Quiz
Around The World With Nellie Bly
Only a man could do it, Nellie Bly was told about her plan to go round the world in less than 80 days. It was a red rag to a bull and she soon achieved the feat
May 5, 1867
Panic of 1893
The panicked scene at the New York Stock Exchange on the infamous morning of Friday, 5 May, 1893
May 5, 1893
Weekly Quiz for May 4 -10
Who was Mongol ruler Kublai Khan to Genghis Khan? What was the UK code-breaking center during World War II? Which country 1st legalized a birth control pill?
