May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). There are 240 days remaining.
There are usually 92 days in Spring. We are considered halfway through Spring on May 5.
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Events
1600-1899
1900-1999
- 1912 - The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 1916 - American marines invade the Dominican Republic.
- 1922 - In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
- 1925 - Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
- 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 1940 - World War II: In London, a Norwegian government in exile is formed.
- 1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa.
- 1943 - The film curator of the Library of Congress, Howard Walls announces that about 5,000 films will be preserved in the library.
- 1944 - Mohandas Gandhi is freed from prison.
- 1945 - World War II:
- 1949 - The Council of Europe is formed.
- 1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand.
- 1954 - General Alfredo Stroessner takes power in Paraguay by coup.
- 1955 - West Germany gains full sovereignty.
- 1961 - Mercury program: Mercury 3 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space. He makes a flight of 15 minutes, making less than one complete orbit.
- 1970 - Shri Mataji Nirmala Shrivastava claims to have discovered a historical process of en-masse Self Realization.
- 1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds has his 3000th major league hit.
- 1980 - Operation Nimrod: The Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six day siege.
- 1984 - In Luxembourg, Herreys win the twenty-ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Diggi-loo, diggi-ley".
- 1986 - The Love Boat aired its last episode.
- 1987 - Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings.
- 1990 - Capital punishment: Jesse Tafero is executed in Florida after three electric chair malfunctions caused flames to shoot from his head.
- 1990 - In Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), Toto Cutugno wins the thirty-fifth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Insieme: 1992" (Together: 1992).
- 1992 - The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution receives its 38th ratification by the Alabama Legislature and therefore becomes law.
- 1992 - Wolfenstein 3D is released, the first ever first-person shooter computer game.
- 1995 - British film producer Ray Santilli unveils his "alien autopsy" footage to a group of UFO researchers. The film is widely regarded as a hoax.
- 1994 - American Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore as punishment for spray-painting two cars.
2000-2099
Births
1200-1899
- 1210 - King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
- 1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher (d. 1855)
- 1818 - Karl Marx, political philosopher (d. 1883)
- 1826 - Empress Eugenie of France, empress as wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
- 1832 - H.H. Bancroft, historian and publisher
- 1833 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, geographer (d. 1905)
- 1846 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1905 (d. 1916)
- 1865 - Elizabeth Jane Cochran ("Nellie Bly"), journalist, writer (d. 1922)
- 1869 - Hans Pfitzner, composer (d. 1949)
- 1883 - Archibald Wavell, World War II general (d. 1950)
- 1890 - Christopher Morley, writer (d. 1957)
1900-1999
- 1901 - Blind Willie McTell, blues singer (d. 1959)
- 1903 - James Beard, chef, cookbook writer (d. 1985)
- 1908 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
- 1914 - Tyrone Power, actor (d. 1958)
- 1915 - Alice Faye, actress (d. 1998)
- 1926 - Ann B. Davis, actress, The Brady Bunch
- 1935 - Douglas Marland, soap opera writer (As the World Turns) (d. 1993)
- 1940 - Michael Lindsay-Hogg, director
- 1941 - Alexander Ragulin, ice hockey player (d. 2004)
- 1943 - Michael Palin, British writer, actor and comedian ("Monty Python")
- 1944 - Roger Rees, actor
- 1944 - John Rhys-Davies, actor
- 1957 - Richard E. Grant, actor*
- 1987 - Raimundo J. Barros Navarrete, film director
- 1989 - Robert Lucas Christian, Famous Architect
Deaths
1000-1899
- 1028 - Alfonso V, king of León and Galicia
- 1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria, last independent ruler of Styria, which is henceforth under common rule with Austria
- 1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
- 1309 - King Charles II of Naples, king of Naples (b. c. 1248)
- 1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
- 1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
- 1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
- 1807 - P. D. Q. Bach, fictitious composer (b. 1742)
- 1811 - Robert Mylne, architect (b. 1734)
- 1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte, ruler of France (1799-1815) (b. 1769)
- 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
- 1859 - Peter Dirichlet, mathematician
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
May 4 - May 6 - April 5 - June 5 -- listing of all days
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