About May 5

May 5, 2020 is the 126th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 283 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On May 5

  • 553 –
    The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
  • 1494 –
    Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
  • 1640 –
    King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
  • 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, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portugese army holds the field at the end of the day.
  • 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, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
  • 1877 –
    Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
  • 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.
  • 1925 –
    The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language
  • 1936 –
    Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1950 –
    Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
  • 1961 –
    The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
  • 1964 –
    The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
  • 1980 –
    Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
  • 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.
  • 1994 –
    The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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