May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).
This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox).
This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox).
NATIONAL HOAGIE DAY
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John I of England—part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1821 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
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, VA. Although the Wilderness is usually described as a draw, it could be called a tactical Confederate victory, but a strategic victory for the Union army. Lee inflicted heavy numerical casualties on Grant, but as a percentage of Grant's forces they were smaller than the percentage of casualties suffered by Lee's smaller army.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
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.
1912 – Pravda ("Truth"), the voice of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. They were convicted and executed by the electric chair seven years later at Charlestown State Prison. Both adhered to Anarcho-communism, an anarchist movement that advocated against government and capitalism.
1925 – Scopes Trial (Hillsboro, TN): Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. Scopes was found guilty, but the trial revealed a growing chasm in American Christianity and two ways of finding truth, one "biblical" and one "evolutionist".
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. More than 5,700 lower-ranking personnel were charged with conventional war crimes in separate trials convened by Australia, China,France, The Netherlands, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States. The charges covered a wide range of crimes including prisoner abuse, rape, sexual slavery, torture, ill-treatment of laborers, execution without trial and inhumane medical experiments. China held 13 tribunals, resulting in 504 convictions and 149 executions.
1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty from the East.
1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty from the East.
1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1973 – Secretariat (ridden by Ron Turcotte) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, an as-yet unbeaten record, on his was to the Triple Crown.
1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. His death and those of nine other hunger strikers were followed by a new surge of Provisional IRA recruitment and violent activity. International media coverage brought attention to the hunger strikers, and the republican movement in general, attracting both praise and criticism.
2014 – 11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
2014 – 22 people die after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
2014 – 11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
2014 – 22 people die after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
BORN TODAY
1542 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (d. 1623)
1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855)
1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)
1830 – John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (d. 1906)
1903 – James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985)
1542 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (d. 1623)
1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855)
1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)
1830 – John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (d. 1906)
1903 – James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985)
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