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
- 553 –The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
- 1640 –King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
- 1809 –The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
- 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.
- 1866 –Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
- 1944 –German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleisoura in Greece
- 1950 –Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
- 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.
- 1987 –Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
- 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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