Notable Historical Events on May 5th
May 5th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
553 |
2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens |
1260 |
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. |
1430 |
Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany |
1494 |
On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica |
1640 |
English Short Parliament unites |
1646 |
King Charles I surrenders at Scotland |
1665 |
Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow |
1726 |
Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris |
1762 |
Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty, Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years War |
1764 |
Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls |
1780 |
2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston) |
1789 |
French Estates-General meets for the first time since 1614 at Versailles, summoned King Louis XVI |
1809 |
Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland |
1809 |
Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw) |
1814 |
British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY |
1816 |
American Bible Society organized (NY) |
1834 |
Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz |
1835 |
King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway |
1842 |
City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) |
1847 |
American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) |
1854 |
English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast |
1855 |
NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration |
1861 |
Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city |
1862 |
French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo |
1862 |
Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA |
1863 |
Battle of Tupelo, MS |
1863 |
Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round |
1864 |
Atlanta Campaign: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge |
1864 |
Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke |
1864 |
Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern) |
1864 |
Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA |
1865 |
1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio) |
1874 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law |
1877 |
Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. |
1881 |
Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine |
1886 |
The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven. |
1891 |
Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor |
1893 |
Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange |
1900 |
"The Billboard" began weekly publication |
1904 |
Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Phila A's (3-0) |
1905 |
Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender" |
1908 |
34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2 |
1908 |
Great White Fleet arrives in SF |
1912 |
5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden |
1912 |
Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) |
1915 |
German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom |
1916 |
US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 |
1917 |
St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 |
1920 |
German-Latvian peace treaty signed |
1920 |
Polish troops occupy Kiev |
1920 |
US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal |
1921 |
1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired |
1921 |
Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) |
1922 |
Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) |
1924 |
Unions terminate Twentse textile strike |
1925 |
John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee |
1925 |
Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases) |
1925 |
Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak |
1925 |
Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa. |
1926 |
Geldrop soccer team forms |
1926 |
Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" |
1927 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin |
1930 |
Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia |
1930 |
Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours |
1932 |
Japan & China sign a peace treaty |
1934 |
60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04 |
1935 |
Jesse Owens of US sets long jump record at 26' 8½" |
1936 |
Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip |
1936 |
Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa |
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 |
1939 |
Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky |
1940 |
Norwegian government in exile forms in London |
1941 |
2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England |
1941 |
Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa |
1941 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) |
1941 |
First modern perfume Chanel No. 5 released. |
1942 |
British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar |
1942 |
US begins rationing sugar during WW II |
1943 |
Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System |
1944 |
Gandhi freed from prison |
1944 |
Russian offensive against Sebastopol, Crimea |
1945 |
Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated |
1945 |
Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control |
1945 |
Uprising against occupying SS troops in Prague |
1945 |
Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated |
1945 |
World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases. |
1947 |
Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage |
1947 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) |
1948 |
1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier |
1948 |
Belgian government of Spaak resigns |
1949 |
Council of Europe forms |
1949 |
KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1949 |
Statute of Council of Europe drawn up |
1949 |
Tiger 2nd baseman Charlie Gehringer selected to Hall of Fame |
1950 |
Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand |
1951 |
"Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 perfs |
1951 |
77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6 |
1952 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) |
1952 |
Ron Necciai of Pitts Pirate's Bristol Twins Class D farm team, strikes out 27, as he no-hits Welch Minors, 4 Minors do reach base |
1954 |
Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay |
1955 |
"Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances |
1955 |
Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce |
1955 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site |
1955 |
West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers |
1956 |
82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4 |
1956 |
Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude |
1956 |
Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif |
1956 |
World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo |
1957 |
Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria |
1957 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
1958 |
KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) |
1958 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
1961 |
Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) |
1962 |
88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4 |
1962 |
LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0 |
1962 |
West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album |
1963 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
1964 |
Separatists riot in Quebec |
1965 |
1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam |
1966 |
Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II |
1966 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2 |
1966 |
Willie Mays hit his 512th HR |
1968 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
1969 |
23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
1969 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) |
1970 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site |
1971 |
"Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1971 |
Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC) |
1972 |
Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 |
1973 |
99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4 |
1974 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic |
1975 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) |
1975 |
A's release pinch runner Herb Washington (played 104 games without batting, pitching, or fielding He stole 30 bases, & scored 33 runs) |
1976 |
Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II |
1976 |
Train collision at Schiedam Neth, kills 24 |
1978 |
Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits |
1979 |
105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4 |
1979 |
Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting |
1979 |
Voyager 1 passes Jupiter |
1980 |
Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British SAS & police storm the building |
1980 |
Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece. |
1981 |
16th & final Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-1, hold 8-7-1 edge |
1983 |
Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
1983 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1984 |
110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4 |
1985 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Moss Creek Women's Golf Invitational |
1986 |
Hall of Fame & Museum announced to be built in Cleveland |
1987 |
Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings |
1987 |
Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East |
1987 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1988 |
Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US archbishop |
1989 |
Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY |
1990 |
116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02 |
1990 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren |
1991 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
1991 |
A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after a Salvadoran man is shot by police. |
1992 |
Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection |
1994 |
"Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs |
1994 |
Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections |
1994 |
North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen |
1995 |
Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Magic beats Celtics) |
1996 |
"Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore" closes at Belasco after 12 perfs |
1996 |
Karrie Webb wins LPGA Sprint Titleholders Golf Championship |
1996 |
Renette Cruz, Vancouver, wins Miss Canadian Universe |
1997 |
"Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV |
1997 |
Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful |
1999 |
34th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw wins |
2000 |
Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon |
2001 |
127th Kentucky Derby: Jorge Chavez aboard Monarchos wins in 1:59.97 |
2005 |
The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third consecutive term. |
2006 |
The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army |
2007 |
Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon. |
2007 |
133rd Kentucky Derby: Calvin Borel aboard Street Sense wins in 2:02.17 |
2012 |
17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal |
2012 |
Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970 |
2012 |
138th Kentucky Derby: Mario Gutierrez aboard Ill Have Another wins in 2:01.83 |
2013 |
10 people are killed in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria |
2013 |
5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California |
2016 |
Nyquist Draws No. 13 Post as Early 3-1 Kentucky Derby Fav |
2016 |
China and Russia to hold anti-missile drill after US, South Korea talk defense |
2016 |
Epic wildfire threatens to engulf Canadian city as 88000 flee |
2016 |
Trump signals willingness to raise US minimum wage |
2016 |
North Carolina transgender law violates civil rights law: US |
2016 |
Takata to recall 40 million more airbags in US |
2017 |
US House repeals Obamacare; bill faces higher hurdles in Senate |
2018 |
Stronger quake, magnitude 6.0, hits Hawaii close to erupting volcano: USGS |
2018 |
Magnitude 5.7 quake hits Hawaii's Big Island where volcano erupting -USGS |
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