May 5 in history
Events on May 5
Notable events that happened on May 5 in past years.
- 2023
The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
Wikipedia article: World Health Organization - 1994
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Wikipedia article: Bishkek Protocol - 1987
Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States.
Wikipedia article: Iran–Contra affair - 1973
Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record.
Wikipedia article: Secretariat (horse) - 1961
Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
Wikipedia article: Project Mercury - 1945
World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
Wikipedia article: Fu-Go balloon bomb - 1940
World War II: Norwegian campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1912
The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda is published.
Wikipedia article: Bolsheviks - 1887
The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded.
Wikipedia article: Peruvian Academy of Language - 1866
Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
Wikipedia article: Memorial Day - 1835
The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
Wikipedia article: History of rail transport in Belgium - 1809
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
Wikipedia article: Mary Dixon Kies - 1640
King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
Wikipedia article: Charles I of England - 1292
Election of Count Adolf of Nassau as King of the Romans in the Dominican monastery of Frankfurt.
- 553
The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
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