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Events on the 5th of May in history

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05 May 0553 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
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05 May 0553 The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
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05 May 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.
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05 May 1260 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
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05 May 1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
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05 May 1430 Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
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05 May 1494 On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
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05 May 1494 Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
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05 May 1640 English Short Parliament unites
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05 May 1640 King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
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05 May 1646 King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
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05 May 1665 Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
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05 May 1762 Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
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05 May 1764 Smolny-institution forms in St. Petersburg for noble girls
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05 May 1780 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston)
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05 May 1789 French States-General for It first since 1614 together
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05 May 1789 In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
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05 May 1809 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
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05 May 1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
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05 May 1809 The Swiss canton of Aargau allowed citizenship to Jews.
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05 May 1809 Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
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05 May 1811 In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro the French army, under Marshall André Masséna, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Oñoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.
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05 May 1814 British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, New York
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05 May 1816 American Bible Society organized (NY)
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05 May 1821 Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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05 May 1835 King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway
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05 May 1835 In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
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05 May 1842 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
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05 May 1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
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05 May 1854 English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast
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05 May 1855 New York City regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
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05 May 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
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05 May 1861 Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city
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05 May 1862 French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
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05 May 1862 Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia
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05 May 1862 Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
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05 May 1863 Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi
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05 May 1863 Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
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05 May 1864 Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
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05 May 1864 Battle between Confederate and Union ships at mouth of Roanoke
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05 May 1864 Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
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05 May 1864 Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga to Atlanta
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05 May 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
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05 May 1865 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
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05 May 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
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05 May 1865 In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
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05 May 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
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05 May 1866 Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
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05 May 1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
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05 May 1877 American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
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05 May 1881 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
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05 May 1886 The Bay View Massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
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05 May 1891 Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
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05 May 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.
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05 May 1893 Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange
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05 May 1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication
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05 May 1904 Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia Athletics (3-0)
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05 May 1904 Pitching 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.
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05 May 1905 Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
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05 May 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.
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05 May 1908 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2
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05 May 1908 Great White Fleet arrives in San Francisco
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05 May 1912 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
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05 May 1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4 / 22 OS)
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05 May 1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
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05 May 1916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
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05 May 1920 German-Latvian peace treaty signed
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05 May 1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev
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05 May 1920 US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
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05 May 1920 Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
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05 May 1921 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired
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05 May 1921 Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
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05 May 1922 Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx)
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05 May 1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
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05 May 1925 John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
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05 May 1925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
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05 May 1925 Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak
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05 May 1925 The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.
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05 May 1925 Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
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05 May 1926 Geldrop soccer team forms
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05 May 1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
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05 May 1930 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
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05 May 1932 Japan and China sign a peace treaty
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05 May 1934 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04
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05 May 1934 The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
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05 May 1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
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05 May 1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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05 May 1938 Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning
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05 May 1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
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05 May 1940 Norwegian government in exile forms in London
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05 May 1940 World 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.
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05 May 1940 World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
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05 May 1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
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05 May 1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
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05 May 1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
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05 May 1942 British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar
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05 May 1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
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05 May 1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
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05 May 1944 Gandhi freed from prison
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05 May 1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
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05 May 1944 German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece.
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05 May 1945 Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control
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05 May 1945 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
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05 May 1945 Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague
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05 May 1945 World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
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05 May 1945 World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
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05 May 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.
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05 May 1947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850M in damage
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05 May 1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
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05 May 1948 Belgian government of Spaak resigns
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05 May 1949 Council of Europe forms
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05 May 1949 KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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05 May 1949 Statue of Council of Europe drawn
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05 May 1949 Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame
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05 May 1949 The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
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05 May 1950 Phumiphon Abundet crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand
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05 May 1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King Rama IX of Thailand.
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05 May 1951 "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
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05 May 1951 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6
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05 May 1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
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05 May 1954 Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
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05 May 1955 "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 1022 performances
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05 May 1955 Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce
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05 May 1955 West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
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05 May 1955 West Germany gains full sovereignty.
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05 May 1956 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4
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05 May 1956 Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
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05 May 1956 Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles, California
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05 May 1956 World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
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05 May 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
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05 May 1958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
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05 May 1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
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05 May 1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
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05 May 1961 The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
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05 May 1962 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4
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05 May 1962 LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Baltimore Orioles, 2-0
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05 May 1962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
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05 May 1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
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05 May 1964 Separatists riot in Quebec
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05 May 1964 The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
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05 May 1965 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
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05 May 1965 The Warlocks, later known as The Grateful Dead, make their first public appearance in Menlo Park, California.
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05 May 1966 Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
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05 May 1966 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
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05 May 1966 Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
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05 May 1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
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05 May 1969 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
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05 May 1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
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05 May 1971 "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
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05 May 1971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
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05 May 1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
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05 May 1972 Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
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05 May 1973 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4
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05 May 1973 Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
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05 May 1974 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic
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05 May 1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
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05 May 1976 Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II
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05 May 1976 Train collision at Schiedam Neth, kills 24
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05 May 1977 The first of The Nixon Interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon are broadcast.
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05 May 1978 Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
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05 May 1979 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4
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05 May 1979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
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05 May 1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
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05 May 1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building
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05 May 1980 Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
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05 May 1981 Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
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05 May 1983 Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
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05 May 1984 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4
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05 May 1985 Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen: Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg, Germany, and the site of the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, where he makes a speech.
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05 May 1986 Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
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05 May 1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
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05 May 1987 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
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05 May 1987 Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
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05 May 1988 Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US Archbishop
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05 May 1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York
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05 May 1990 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02
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05 May 1990 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren
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05 May 1990 Paul Hogan and Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
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05 May 1991 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
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05 May 1991 A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
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05 May 1992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
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05 May 1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 performances
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05 May 1994 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
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05 May 1994 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
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05 May 1994 American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
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05 May 1994 The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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05 May 1995 Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics)
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05 May 1996 "Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 performances
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05 May 1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship
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05 May 1996 Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe
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05 May 1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
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05 May 1997 Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
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05 May 2006 The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
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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.
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05 May 2014 22 people die after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
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05 May 2014 11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
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