May 5

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.

Events

• 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
• 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.
• 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
• 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
• 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
• 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
• 1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
• 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
• 1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
• 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 Onoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.
• 1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
• 1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
• 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.
• 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, Virginia.
• 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
• 1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
• 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.
• 1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
• 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• 1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language.
• 1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
• 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• 1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
• 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.
• 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
• 1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece
• 1945 – World War II: Canadian and British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
• 1945 – World War II: The Prague Uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
• 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.
• 1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
• 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
• 1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
• 1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
• 1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
• 1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• 1973 – Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record.
• 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
• 1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
• 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
• 1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
• 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.
• 2000 – Approximate alignment of the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) visible to the naked eye from Earth, as well as the sun and Earth's moon, and Earth itself; for the first time since March 4th, 1953 B.C. (since about 4000 years ago); and for the last time in the next 4000 years.^[1][2]
• 2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
• 2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
• 2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.

Births

• 867 – Emperor Uda of Japan (d. 931)
• 1210 – Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
• 1479 – Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
• 1546 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician (d. 1623)
• 1684 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (d. 1739)
• 1747 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
• 1749 – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French composer (d. 1794)
• 1764 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general (d. 1812)
• 1800 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
• 1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855)
• 1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher (d. 1883)
• 1826 – Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
• 1830 – John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (d. 1906)
• 1832 – Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian and ethnologist (d. 1918)
• 1833 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d. 1905)
• 1834 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
• 1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• 1858 – John L. Leal, American physician (d. 1914)
• 1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (d. 1922)
• 1866 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (d. 1938)
• 1869 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter (d. 1937)
• 1869 – Hans Pfitzner, German composer (d. 1949)
• 1883 – Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944)
• 1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (d. 1950)
• 1887 – Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941)
• 1887 – Geoffrey Fisher, English archbishop (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (d. 1957)
• 1893 – S. Mahadeva, Ceylon Tamil civil engineer
• 1899 – Freeman Fisher Gosden, American comedian and actor (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
• 1903 – James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Floyd Gottfredson, American illustrator (d. 1986)
• 1906 – Charles Exbrayat, French author (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (d. 1982)
• 1908 – Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (d. 1989)
• 1909 – Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian poet (d. 1944)
• 1910 – Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess player (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist (d. 1932)
• 1914 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
• 1915 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (d. 1987)
• 1917 – Pío Leyva, Cuban singer (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish-American nurse (d. 2003)
• 1923 – Richard Wollheim, English philosopher (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Eddi Arent, German actor (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Leo Ryan, American politician (d. 1978)
• 1927 – Pat Carroll, American actress and singer
• 1927 – Sylvia Fedoruk, Canadian physicist and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (d. 2010)
• 1930 – Will Hutchins, American actor
• 1931 – Greg, Belgian writer and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 1934 – Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
• 1934 – Johnnie Taylor, American singer (d. 2000)
• 1935 – Douglas Marland, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist
• 1935 – Robert Rehme, American film producer
• 1936 – Patrick Gowers, English composer
• 1936 – Ervin Lázár, Hungarian author (d. 2006)
• 1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English DJ and composer (White Noise) (d. 2001)
• 1938 – Michael Murphy, American actor
• 1938 – Bill Robertson, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Lasse Åberg, Swedish actor, singer, and director
• 1940 – Lance Henriksen, American actor
• 1940 – Michael Lindsay-Hogg, American director
• 1941 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
• 1942 – Marc Alaimo, American actor
• 1942 – István Bujtor, Hungarian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
• 1943 – Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
• 1943 – Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist
• 1944 – Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer
• 1944 – John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
• 1944 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor
• 1945 – Kurt Loder, American journalist
• 1945 – Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt
• 1946 – Jim Kelly, American actor and martial artist (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Steve Stevens, American guitarist
• 1947 – Robin McNamara, American singer-songwriter
• 1948 – Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter (Black Sabbath and Mythology)
• 1951 – Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and coach
• 1951 – Toomas Vilosius, Estonian politician and physician
• 1955 – Melinda Culea, American actress
• 1955 – Lisa Jane Persky, American actress and journalist
• 1956 – Robert Marien, Canadian actor and singer
• 1957 – Richard E. Grant, Swiss-English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Peter Howitt, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Ron Arad, Israeli pilot (d. 1986)
• 1958 – Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer
• 1958 – Aurélien Recoing, French actor
• 1958 – Jack Wishna, American businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub (d. 2012)
• 1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen, Electrafixion, and Crucial Three)
• 1959 – Brian Williams, American journalist
• 1960 – Jeremy Wade, English biologist and author
• 1961 – Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician
• 1962 – Jenifer McKitrick, American songwriter
• 1962 – Nicolas Vanier, Senegalese explorer, author, and director
• 1963 – Heidi Kozak, American actress
• 1963 – James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter (Dream Theater, Winter Rose, Explorers Club, and MullMuzzler)
• 1963 – Simon Rimmer, English chef and author
• 1963 – Scott Westerfeld, American author
• 1964 – Jean-François Copé, French politician
• 1964 – Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
• 1965 – Glenn Seton, Australian race car driver
• 1966 – Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth and Eidolon)
• 1966 – Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1966 – Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 – Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor and singer
• 1967 – Maro Mavri, Greek model and actress
• 1967 – Charles Nagy, American baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician
• 1969 – Olav Sepp, Estonian chess player
• 1970 – Kyan Douglas, American television host and author
• 1970 – LaPhonso Ellis, American basketball player
• 1970 – Todd Newton, American game show host
• 1971 – Harold Miner, American basketball player
• 1971 – Mike Redmond, American baseball player and manager
• 1972 – James Cracknell, English rower
• 1973 – Casino Versus Japan, American composer and producer
• 1973 – Tina Yothers, American actress and singer
• 1974 – Seiji Ara, Japanese race car driver
• 1976 – Dieter Brummer, Australian actor
• 1976 – Jean-François Dumoulin, Canadian race car driver
• 1976 – Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer
• 1976 – Sage Stallone, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1976 – Jeremy Michael Ward, American singer and guitarist (The Mars Volta and De Facto) (d. 2003)
• 1977 – Virginie Efira, Belgian actress and journalist
• 1977 – Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress
• 1977 – Jessica Schwarz, German actress
• 1978 – Santiago Cabrera, Venezuelan-English actor
• 1978 – Morgan Pehme, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – John Wilshere, Papua New Guinean rugby player
• 1979 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
• 1979 – Sandee Westgate, American pornographic actress and model
• 1980 – Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
• 1980 – Hank Green, American web developer and blogger
• 1980 – DerMarr Johnson, American basketball player
• 1980 – Charmane Star, Filipino porn actress
• 1981 – Marcelle Bittar, Brazilian model
• 1981 – Craig David, English singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Danielle Fishel, American actress
• 1982 – Jay Bothroyd, English footballer
• 1982 – Wouter D'Haene, Belgian sprinter
• 1982 – Randall Gay, American football player
• 1983 – Henry Cavill, English actor
• 1983 – Annie Villeneuve, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1983 – Scott Ware, American football player
• 1984 – Wade MacNeil, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alexisonfire, Gallows, and Black Lungs)
• 1984 – Christian Valdéz, Mexican footballer
• 1985 – Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer
• 1985 – Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Tsepo Masilela, South African footballer
• 1985 – Marcos Rogério Oliveira Duarte, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 – Terrence Wheatley, American football player
• 1987 – Jessie Cave, English actress
• 1987 – Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer
• 1987 – Ian Michael Smith, American actor
• 1988 – Adele, English singer-songwriter and musician
• 1988 – Mai Agan, Estonian bass guitarist and composer
• 1988 – Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (d. 1996)
• 1988 – Brooke Hogan, American singer and actress
• 1988 – Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 – Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1989 – Larissa Wilson, English actress
• 1990 – Song Jieun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Secret)
• 1990 – Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer
• 1991 – Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (d. 2013)
• 1991 – Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
• 1991 – Shubha Phutela, Indian model and actress (d. 2012)
• 1992 – Loïck Landre, French footballer
• 1992 – Yōsuke Mikami, Japanese footballer
• 1992 – Taisuke Miyazaki, Japanese footballer
• 1999 – Nathan Chen, American figure skater

Deaths

• 984 – Gerberga of Saxony (b. 913)
• 1194 – Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (b. 1138)
• 1306 – Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine prince and general (b. 1261)
• 1309 – Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
• 1525 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)
• 1586 – Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
• 1671 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician (b. 1602)
• 1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
• 1700 – Angelo Italia, Sicilian Baroque architect (b. 1628)
• 1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• 1760 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720)
• 1766 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1808 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
• 1821 – Napoleon, French general and emperor (b. 1769)
• 1827 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
• 1833 – Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777)
• 1855 – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)
• 1859 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
• 1860 – Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804)
• 1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
• 1896 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
• 1900 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
• 1916 – John MacBride, Irish soldier (b. 1865)
• 1916 – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
• 1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1924 – A. Sabapathy, Ceylon Tamil politician (b. 1853)
• 1931 – Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
• 1944 – Bertha Benz German wife of Karl Benz (b. 1849)
• 1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
• 1965 – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor (b. 1915)
• 1965 – John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1971 – Violet Jessop, Argentinean nurse (b. 1887)
• 1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Bobby Sands, Irish politician (b. 1954)
• 1983 – Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)
• 1985 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French comedian and singer (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Mario Quintana, Brazilian poet (b. 1906)
• 1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
• 1997 – Walter Gotell, German-English actor (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Candy Candido, American radio performer, bass player, vocalist and animation voice actor (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
• 2002 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)
• 2002 – George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964)
• 2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African politician and activist (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (Melocure) (b. 1959)
• 2005 – Elisabeth Fraser, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist, created the laser (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Jerry Wallace, American singer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian politician, 12th president of Nigeria (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian navy officer (b. 1901)
• 2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Dana Wynter, German-English actress (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1916)
• 2012 – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist (b. 1932)
• 2012 – George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Roy Padayachie, South African politician (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Alan Arnell, English footballer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Rossella Falk, Italian actress (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Dean Jeffries, American stuntman (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Dirk Vekeman, Belgian footballer (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Helmin Wiels, Curaçaoan politician (b. 1958)

Holidays and observances

• Children's Day (Japan)
• Children's Day (South Korea)
• Cinco de Mayo (Mexico and the United States)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Angelus of Jerusalem
  • Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
  • Hilary of Arles
  • Jutta of Kulmsee
  • May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
• Coronation Day, commemorates the coronation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950. (Thailand)
• Europe Day (Council of Europe)
• Feast of al-Khadr or St. George (Palestinian)
• Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)
• International Midwives' Day (International)
• Liberation Day (Denmark)
• Liberation Day (The Netherlands)
• Lusophone Culture Day (Community of Portuguese-speaking countries)
• Martyrs' Day (Albania)
• Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)
• Senior Citizens Day (Palau)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to May 5.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

References

1. ↑ "The Planetary Alignment of 5 May 2000". 
2. ↑ Sagan, Carl (1994). Pale Blue Dot. Random House. p. 99. ISBN 0-345-37659-5.