About May 5
May 5, 2025 is the 125th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 288 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 5
- 1640 –King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
- 1809 –Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1886 –The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.
- 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.
- 1925 –Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 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, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
- 1964 –The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
- 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.
- 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.
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