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Events:C/P.
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 Oρoro the French army, under Marshall Andrι Massιna, 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 the Nazis 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 UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi 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 Nazi 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.
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.
Events:C/P.
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 Oρoro the French army, under Marshall Andrι Massιna, 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 the Nazis 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 UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi 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 Nazi 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.
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.