May 5

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 5. From 1900 until now. May 5 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Chris Brown (1989), Adele (singer) (1988) and Henry Cavill (1983). Several movies were released around May 5 over the years, such as Breaker Morant in 1980 directed by Bruce Beresford and Fox and His Friends in 1975 directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Holidays

Martyrs Neophytos, Gaius and Gaianus
Euthymios the Wonderworker
Barlaam of Serpukhov
Martin and Heraclius of Illyria
Eulogios the Confessor
New Martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri
Albania: Martyrs' Day.
Great Martyr Irene
Roly Poly of Georgia.
Saint Aventinus (d. 1189)
Ethiopia: Liberation Day (1941).
International Midwives Day.
Adrian of Monzensk
South Korea: Children's Day.
Guyana: Indian Immigration Day (1838).
Council of Europe: Europe Day.
International No Pants Day.
Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan (2006): Buddha's Birthday.
Japan: Tango no Sekku (Boy's Day) or Kodomo no hi (Children's Day).
Mexico and (informally) the United States: Cinco de Mayo (1862).
Denmark: Liberation Day (1945).
Northern Territory, Australia: May Day.
Saint Angelus of Jerusalem (d. 1222)
Saint Britto
Ascension Day in Western Christianity (2005).
Saint Gerontius (d. 472)
Saint Godehart (d. 1038)
Saint Nicetius
Saint Hilary of Arles (d. 449)
Saint Pius V (1505-1572)
Saint Jutta of Kulmsee, aka Saint Jutta of Sangerhausen or Saint Judith of Prussia (d. 1260)
Blessed Aleidis
The Netherlands: May 5, Liberation day (1945).
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Events

2019 Gaza–Israel clashes (May 2019), Iran–Israel proxy conflict: Hamas and other militant groups in the Gaza Strip fire hundreds of rockets at Israel, killing two Israeli civilians in Ashkelon and one in Ashdod. Retaliatory Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 23 Palestinians, including a senior Hamas commander. (CNN) (Haartez)
2018 An explosion in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, kills six Palestinians. Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces both deny responsibility and blame each other for the blast. (BBC)
2017 Syrian Civil War: Russia, Iran and Turkey reach an agreement, effective this midnight, to establish four "safe zones" in Syria over which all military aircraft, including Turkish, Russian, and American aircraft, will be barred from flying. (Reuters) (Fox News)The United Nations welcomed the long discussed safe zones, although they have been rejected by Syrian rebels and the Kurdish PYD. (Reuters) (Fox News) (Reuters)
2016 Syrian Civil War: At least 12 people are killed and many are wounded in twin blasts in central Syria. (USA Today)Airstrikes on a camp for war refugees in Syria near the Syria–Turkey border kills 28 people, including women and children. (Reuters) (BBC)
2015 Curtis Culwell Center attack: ISIS claims responsibility for the attack on an exhibition of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in the American city of Garland, Texas. One of the suspects was previously interrogated and surveilled by the FBI having visited Somalia, and both suspects praised ISIS in social media. (Washington Post)
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine and the Siege of Sloviansk: A Ukrainian military helicopter patrolling around the eastern city of Sloviansk is shot down; all of the pilots survived and were later rescued. (CNN)Neighbouring Ukraine and breakaway Transnistria, Moldova places its borders on alert as the unrest continues. (AP)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Israeli aircraft hit at least six targets near Damascus, targeting Iranian-made Fateh-110 missile shipments en route to Hezbollah. (BBC) (The Times of Israel)Syria's foreign ministry accuses Israel of helping and working with the Syrian rebels to coordinate airstrikes (Xinhua) (ABC) (The New York Times)
2012 A U.S. drone attack kills at least nine insurgents in Pakistan's North Waziristan. (AP via The Guardian) (NineMSN)
2011 2011 Libyan civil war
2010 Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
2009 The confirmed worldwide number of cases of swine influenza reaches 1,490. (CNN)
2008 Crude oil prices for June delivery in the US hit a record US$120.36 per barrel.
2007 All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
2006 The government of China has made artificial rainfall to wash a layer of sand and dust off Beijing. (Xinhua News)
2005 Labour government of Tony Blair in the United Kingdom wins a third successive general election.
2004 Parliament grounds and adjoining footpaths in New Zealand host 15,000 people (many of whom have participated in several days of route march – "hikoi") protesting about the proposed law that is expected to change the ownership of foreshore and seabed.
2003 Boeing unveils a drawing of a proposed ''airplane of the future'' and launches a public contest to name the aircraft.
2002 Internazionale awkwardly hands over the Serie A Scudetto to their bitter rivals Juventus after losing away to SS Lazio, 4–2.
2000 A rare conjunction occurs on the New Moon including all seven of the traditional celestial bodies known from ancient times up until 1781 with the discovery of Uranus. The conjunction consists of the Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.( NASA)
1999 Microsoft releases Windows 98 (Second Edition), from 1998.
1997 Married With Children final episode on Fox TV
1996 Jack-Night on Town with J Barrymore closes at Belasco after 12 performances
1995 Last basketball game at Boston Gardens (Orlando Magic beats Boston Celtics).
1994 Sally Marrand Her Escorts opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 performances
1992 Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
1991 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic.
1990 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren.
1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York
1988 Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US Archbishop
1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1985 U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
1984 110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4.
1983 Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1982 A Unabomber bomb explodes in the computer science department at Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.
1981 Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and elected member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, dies aged 27 while on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building.
1979 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4.
1978 Norway opens a natural gas field in the Polar Sea.
1976 Anderlecht wins 16th soccer Europe Cup II.
1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1974 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Lady Tara Golf Classic.
1973 99th Kentucky Derby: Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins in 1:59.4.
1972 Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1971 Earl of Ruston opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site.
1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational.
1966 Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II.
1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam.
1964 Separatists riot in QuTbec, Canada.
1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open.
1962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (aboard Freedom 7).
1958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open.
1956 Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude
1955 Damn Yankees opens at 46th Steet Theater in New York City for 1022 performances.
1954 Military coup by General Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay.
1953 Aldous Huxley first tries the psychedelic hallucinogen mescaline, inspiring his book ''The Doors of Perception''.
1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1951 Out of This World closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
1949 Council of Europe forms
1948 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
1947 Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 and causes $850 million in damage.
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.
1945 Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim.
1943 Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System.
1942 US begins rationing sugar during WWII
1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1940 Norwegian Government in exile forms in London, England.
1939 Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky, USA.
1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip.
1934 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04.
1933 The detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is reported in the ''New York Times''. The discovery leads to the birth of radio astronomy.
1932 Japan and China sign a peace treaty.
1931 İsmet İnönü forms new government in Turkey. (7th government)
1930 1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
1927 The novel ''To the Lighthouse'' was finished by Virginia Woolf.
1926 Geldrop soccer team forms
1925 Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
1922 Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx).
1921 Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm).
1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev.
1919 The League of Red Cross Societies is founded in Paris.
1916 US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924.
1915 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom.
1912 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
1908 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2.
1905 Robert S Abbott published first issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender".
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.
1902 The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service.
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