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What happend on 5. May in History
In our data base we found 315 events happened on 5. May:
• 200: Sun Ce, Chinese warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175) [category: Deaths]
• 311: Galerius, Roman emperor (b. 260) [category: Deaths]
• 553: The Second Council of Constantinople begins. [category: Events]
• 867: Emperor Uda of Japan (d. 931) [category: Births]
• 984: Gerberga of Saxony (b. 913) [category: Deaths]
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• 1028: Alfonso V of León (b. 994) [category: Deaths]
• 1194: Casimir II the Just (b. 1138) [category: Deaths]
• 1210: Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1219: Leo II, King of Armenia (b. 1150) [category: Deaths]
• 1260: Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. [category: Events]
• 1309: Charles II of Naples (b. 1254) [category: Deaths]
• 1426: Ephraim of Nea Makri, Greek Orthodox saint (b. 1384) [category: Deaths]
• 1479: Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574) [category: Births]
• 1494: Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain. [category: Events]
• 1525: Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463) [category: Deaths]
• 1546: Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623) [category: Births]
• 1586: Henry Sidney, Irish lord, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529) [category: Deaths]
• 1604: Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533) [category: Deaths]
• 1640: King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. [category: Events]
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• 1671: Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602) [category: Deaths]
• 1672: Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609) [category: Deaths]
• 1684: Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (d. 1739) [category: Births]
• 1705: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640) [category: Deaths]
• 1747: Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792) [category: Births]
• 1749: Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French composer (d. 1794) [category: Births]
• 1760: Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (b. 1720) [category: Deaths]
• 1762: Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. [category: Events]
• 1764: Robert Craufurd, English general (d. 1812) [category: Births]
• 1766: Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684) [category: Deaths]
• 1789: In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614. [category: Events]
• 1800: Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1808: Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757) [category: Deaths]
• 1809: Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. [category: Events]
• 1809: The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews. [category: Events]
• 1811: Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734) [category: Deaths]
• 1811: In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank [category: Events]
• 1813: Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855) [category: Births]
• 1818: Karl Marx, German philosopher (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1821: Napoleon, French military and political leader (b. 1769) [category: Deaths]
• 1821: Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. [category: Events]
• 1826: Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1827: Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750) [category: Deaths]
• 1830: John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer, invented the cowboy hat and founded the John B. Stetson Company (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1832: Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian and publisher (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1833: Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1833: Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (b. 1777) [category: Deaths]
• 1834: Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1835: In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. [category: Events]
• 1846: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1855: Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786) [category: Deaths]
• 1858: John L. Leal, American physician (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1859: Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1860: John Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1862: Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1864: Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1864: American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1865: In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place. [category: Events]
• 1866: Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1866: Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York. [category: Events]
• 1869: Fabian de la Rosa, Filipino painter (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1869: Hans Pfitzner, German composer (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1870: Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (death date unknown) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1883: Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1883: Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1886: The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven. [category: Events]
• 1887: Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1887: Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1889: Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1890: Christopher Morley, American writer (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1892: August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1896: Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1899: Freeman Gosden, American radio comedian (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1900: Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: Blind Willie McTell, American singer and guitarist (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1903: James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1906: Charles Exbrayat, French novelist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1908: Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1909: Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian poet (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1911: Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1911: Gilles Grangier, French director (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1914: Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1915: Alice Faye, American actress (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1916: John MacBride, Irish Nationalist and member of the Easter Rising (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1920: Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. [category: Events]
• 1921: Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1921: Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Richard Wollheim, English philosopher (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1925: Leo Ryan, American politician (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1925: Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. [category: Events]
• 1925: The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language. [category: Events]
• 1926: Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian scientist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1927: Pat Carroll, American actress [category: Births]
• 1927: Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian scientist and politician [category: Births]
• 1928: Nora Denney, American actress (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1929: Ilene Woods, American actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1931: Michel Regnier, Belgian comic-book writer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1931: Glen Kidston, English aviator and race car driver (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Will Hutchins, American actor [category: Births]
• 1934: Ace Cannon, American tenor and saxophonist [category: Births]
• 1934: Johnnie Taylor, American singer (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1934: The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released. [category: Events]
• 1935: Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host [category: Births]
• 1935: Douglas Marland, American actor and writer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1935: Robert Rehme, American film producer [category: Births]
• 1936: Ervin Lázár, Hungarian writer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1936: Patrick Gowers, English composer [category: Births]
• 1936: Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [category: Events]
• 1937: Delia Derbyshire, English composer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1938: Michael Murphy, American actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Cesare Fiorio, Italian sporting director [category: Births]
• 1940: Lance Henriksen, American actor and painter [category: Births]
• 1940: Lasse Åberg, Swedish actor, musician, and director [category: Births]
• 1940: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, American director [category: Births]
• 1940: World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. [category: Events]
• 1940: World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London [category: Events]
• 1941: Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1941: Natalie of Serbia (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. [category: Events]
• 1942: István Bujtor, Hungarian actor (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1942: Marc Alaimo, American actor [category: Births]
• 1942: Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1942: Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and writer [category: Births]
• 1943: Michael Palin, English writer, actor, and comedian [category: Births]
• 1944: Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1944: John Rhys-Davies, English-Welsh actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Bertha Benz German wife of Karl Benz, and the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance [category: Deaths]
• 1944: German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece [category: Events]
• 1945: Kurt Loder, American journalist, critic, author, and columnist [category: Births]
• 1945: Peter Van Pels, Dutch holocaust victim (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: The Prague Uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from Nazi occupation. [category: Events]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1947: Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Bill Ward, English musician and songwriter (Black Sabbath and Mythology) [category: Births]
• 1949: The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration. [category: Events]
• 1950: Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand. [category: Events]
• 1951: Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and coach [category: Births]
• 1952: Campbell McComas, Australian comedian, writer, and actor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1954: Dave Spector, American commentator and author [category: Births]
• 1955: Lisa Jane Persky, American actress [category: Births]
• 1955: Melinda Culea, American actress [category: Births]
• 1955: West Germany gains full sovereignty. [category: Events]
• 1956: Robert Marien, Québécois actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1957: Peter Howitt, English actor and director [category: Births]
• 1957: Richard E. Grant, English actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Jack Wishna, American businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1958: Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1958: Ron Arad, Israeli pilot (missing in action since 1986) [category: Births]
• 1959: Brian Williams, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1959: Ian McCulloch, English singer and guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen, Electrafixion, and Crucial Three) [category: Births]
• 1959: Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Jeremy Wade, English biologist [category: Births]
• 1961: Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician [category: Births]
• 1961: The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. [category: Events]
• 1962: Jenifer McKitrick, American songwriter [category: Births]
• 1962: Nicolas Vanier, French adventurist, writer, and director [category: Births]
• 1962: Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Heidi Kozak, American actress [category: Births]
• 1963: James LaBrie, Canadian singer and musician (Dream Theater, Winter Rose, Explorers Club, and MullMuzzler) [category: Births]
• 1963: Scott Westerfeld, American author [category: Births]
• 1963: Simon Rimmer, English chef [category: Births]
• 1964: Jean-François Copé, French politician [category: Births]
• 1964: John Lee, Korean-American football player [category: Births]
• 1964: The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. [category: Events]
• 1965: Glenn Seton, Australian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1965: John Waters, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Josh Weinstein, American writer [category: Births]
• 1966: Shawn Drover, Canadian musician (Megadeth and Eidolon) [category: Births]
• 1967: Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician [category: Births]
• 1967: Charles Nagy, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Maro Mavri, Greek model and actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Kyan Douglas, American grooming expert and author [category: Births]
• 1970: LaPhonso Ellis, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Soheil Ayari, French race car driver [category: Births]
• 1970: Todd Newton, American game-show host [category: Births]
• 1971: Harold Miner, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: John Owen-Jones, Welsh actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Mike Redmond, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Violet Jessop, Argentinean ocean liner stewardess and nurse (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Brad Bombardir, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Devin Townsend, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Strapping Young Lad and Front Line Assembly) [category: Births]
• 1972: James Cracknell, English rower [category: Births]
• 1972: Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Žigmund Pálffy, Slovak ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. [category: Events]
• 1973: Casino Versus Japan, American composer [category: Births]
• 1973: Tina Yothers, American actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record. [category: Events]
• 1974: Seiji Ara, Japanese race car driver [category: Births]
• 1976: Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Dieter Brummer, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Jean-François Dumoulin, Canadian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1976: Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Sage Stallone, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1977: Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Ludwig Erhard, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: John Wilshere, Guinean rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Morgan Pehme, American director, writer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1978: Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Vincent Kartheiser, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: DerMarr Johnson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Hank Green, American web developer, writer, and businessman [category: Births]
• 1980: Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege. [category: Events]
• 1981: Chris Duncan, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Chris Wilson, American drummer (Good Charlotte and The Summer Obsession) [category: Births]
• 1981: Craig David, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1981: Danielle Fishel, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Marcelle Bittar, Brazilian model [category: Births]
• 1981: Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. [category: Events]
• 1982: Jay Bothroyd, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Randall Gay, American football player [category: Births]
• 1982: Wouter D'Haene, Belgian sprinter [category: Births]
• 1983: Annie Villeneuve, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1983: Henry Cavill, English actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Scott Ware, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Horst Schumann, German nazi physician (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Christian Valdéz, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Wade MacNeil, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alexisonfire, Gallows, and Black Lungs) [category: Births]
• 1985: Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Marcos Rogério, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese model, actress, singer, and illustrator [category: Births]
• 1985: Terrence Wheatley, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Tsepo Masilela, South African footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Donald Bailey, English civil engineer, invented the Bailey bridge (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Jessie Cave, English actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America [category: Events]
• 1988: Adele, English singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1988: Brooke Hogan, American singer, model, and actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Jessica Dubroff, American pilot trainee (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1988: Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Larissa Wilson, English actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Haruma Miura, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1990: Song Jieun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Secret) [category: Births]
• 1991: Shubha Phutela, Indian model and actress (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1991: Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. [category: Events]
• 1992: Taisuke Miyazaki, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Yosuke Mikami, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Jean-Claude Pascal, French comedian and singer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Mario Quintana, Brazilian poet (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in favor of it. [category: Events]
• 1994: The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. [category: Events]
• 1995: Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Acharya Kuber Nath Rai Indian Writer (b.1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Nathan Chen, American figure skater [category: Births]
• 1999: Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Bill Musselman, American basketball coach (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Raymond Kessler, American wrestler [category: Deaths]
• 2002: George Sidney, American director (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Sam Bockarie, African commander (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (Melocure) (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Elisabeth Fraser, American actress (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. [category: Events]
• 2007: Theodore Maiman, American physicist, created the first working laser (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon. [category: Events]
• 2008: Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Jerry Wallace, American singer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian politician, 12th president of Nigeria (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis. [category: Events]
• 2011: Claude Choules, English-Australian navy officer (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: George Knobel, Dutch football manager (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: James R. Browning, American judge (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roy Padayachie, South African politician (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• _: Angelus of Jerusalem [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Children's Day (Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Children's Day (South Korea) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cinco de Mayo (Mexico and the United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Coronation Day, commemorates the coronation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950. (Thailand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Europe Day (Council of Europe) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Feast of al-Khadr or St. George (Palestinian) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hilary of Arles [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Indian Arrival Day (Guyana) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Midwives' Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Jutta of Kulmsee [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Liberation Day (Denmark) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Liberation Day (The Netherlands) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Lusophone Culture Day (Community of Portuguese-speaking countries) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Martyrs' Day (Albania) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Senior Citizens Day (Palau) [category: Holidays and observances]