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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 05 May 1925 | Monica Lewis: Actress (Box Office) | |||
| 05 May 1925 | John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee | |||
| 05 May 1925 | Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases) | |||
| 05 May 1925 | Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak | |||
| 05 May 1925 | The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language. | |||
| 05 May 1925 | Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. | |||
| 05 May 1925 | Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (d. 1978) | |||
| 05 May 1925 | Eddi Arent, Polish-German actor (d. 2013) | |||
| 05 May 1925 |
Scopes Monkey Trial In 1925, a meeting of local leaders was held in Dayton, Tennessee, to plan a challenge to that state's new law, the Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution in a public school. George W. Rappelyea and other local leaders of the small mining town met at Robinson's drug store. The American Civil Liberties Union in New York, concerned by the law's infringement on constitutional rights, had advertised an offer to give legal support to any teacher who would challenge the law. Rappelyea saw the publicity that would accompany such a trial as an opportunity to promote his town. He approached John T. Scopes, a 24-year-old teacher and football coach, who was hesitant at first, to test the legality of the law in court. The infamous “Scopes Monkey Trial” began on 10 Jul 1925. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 05 May 1950 | Maggie MacNeal: Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star) | |||
| 05 May 1950 | Phumiphon Abundet crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand | |||
| 05 May 1950 | Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King Rama IX of Thailand. | |||
| 05 May 1950 | Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer (Mouth & MacNeal) | |||
| 05 May 1950 | birth Eddy Amoo, The Real Thing, (1976 UK No.1 single 'You To Me Are Everything'). | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 05 May 1975 | Christine Buschur: Eagle River, Alaska -- Miss America - Alaska (1997) | |||
| 05 May 1975 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) | |||
| 05 May 1975 | Meb Keflezighi, American runner | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 05 May 2000 | Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940) | |||
| 05 May 2000 | Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914) | |||
| 05 May 2000 | Rod Stewart had a one-hour throat operation at Cedar Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles to remove a growth on his thyroid. The growth turns out to be benign. | |||
| 05 May 2000 |
Conjunction of the planets In 2000, a conjunction of the five bright planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - formed a rough line across the sky with the Sun and Moon. Unfortunately, nothing was visible from the earth, because the the line of planets was behind the Sun and hidden in its brilliance. Such a conjunction last happened in Feb 1962 and will not happen again until Apr 2438. Throughout former history, a conjuction event was regarded with foreboding. However, now science can be dismissive. Donald Olson, an expert on tides at Southwest Texas State University, working with the assistance of a graduate student, Thomas Lytle, calculated the stress on the Earth caused by the Moon and eight planets has often been routinely greater, most recently on 6 Jan 1990. |
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| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 05 May 2005 | Édgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974) | |||
| 05 May 2005 | Elisabeth Fraser, American actress (b. 1920) | |||
| 05 May 2005 | Justin Timberlake underwent an operation at Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Hospital to remove nodules from his throat. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 05 May 2010 | Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis. | |||
| 05 May 2010 | Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 12th president of Nigeria (b. 1951) | |||
| 05 May 2010 | Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910) | |||
| 10 years anniversary | ||||
| 05 May 2015 | Brian Sedgemore, English lawyer and politician (b. 1937) | |||
| 05 May 2015 | Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942) | |||
| 05 May 2015 | Oscar Holderer, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1919) | |||
| 05 May 2015 | Craig Gruber, American bass player (Rainbow, Elf, Bible Black, and Raven Lord) (b. 1951) | |||
| 05 May 2015 | Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935) | |||
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