5 May
Notable Births
Jenna Davis
b. 2004
American actress and singer (born 2004)
Kirsty Muir
b. 2004
Scottish freestyle skier (born 2004)
Carlos Alcaraz
b. 2003
Spanish tennis player (born 2003)
Nathan Chen
b. 1999
American figure skater (born 1999)
Justin Kluivert
b. 1999
Dutch footballer (born 1999)
Aryna Sabalenka
b. 1998
Belarusian tennis player (born 1998)
Logan Gilbert
b. 1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Mitch Marner
b. 1997
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1997)
Christopher Eubanks
b. 1996
American professional tennis player (born 1996)
Mayar Sherif
b. 1996
Egyptian tennis player (born 1996)
James Conner (American football)
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Celeste (singer)
b. 1994
British singer (born 1994)
Raúl Jiménez
b. 1991
Mexican footballer (born 1991)
Chris Brown
b. 1989
American singer (born 1989)
Agnes Knochenhauer
b. 1989
Swedish curler (born 1989)
Adele
b. 1988
English singer-songwriter (born 1988)
Graham Dorrans
b. 1987
Scottish footballer (born 1987)
Shoko Nakagawa
b. 1985
Musical artist
Karl Marx
b. 1818
German philosopher and socialist (1818–1883)
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
b. 1747
Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
Notable Deaths
Jeannie Epper
d. 2024
American stuntwoman and actress (1941–2024)
Bernard Hill
d. 2024
English actor (1944–2024)
César Luis Menotti
d. 2024
Argentine footballer and manager (1938–2024)
Millie Small
d. 2020
Jamaican singer (1947–2020)
Binyamin Elon
d. 2017
Israeli rabbi and politician (1954–2017)
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
d. 2017
Head of State of Mauritania from 2005 to 2007
Jobst Brandt
d. 2015
American bicycle racer (1935–2015)
Hans Jansen
d. 2015
Dutch academic (1942–2015)
Michael Otedola
d. 2014
Nigerian politician (1926–2014)
Sarah Kirsch
d. 2013
German poet
Robert Ressler
d. 2013
FBI criminal profiler (1937–2013)
Carl Johan Bernadotte
d. 2012
Prince Bernadotte
Aatos Erkko
d. 2012
Finnish newspaper editor and publisher
George Knobel
d. 2012
Dutch football manager (1922–2012)
Claude Choules
d. 2011
Last living combat veteran of the First World War
Yosef Merimovich
d. 2011
Football player and manager (1924–2011)
Dana Wynter
d. 2011
German-born English actress (1931–2011)
Giulietta Simionato
d. 2010
Italian opera singer
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
d. 2010
President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010
Theodore Maiman
d. 2007
American physicist (1927–2007)
On This Day in History
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2023
The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
World Health Organization
2010
Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
Anti-austerity movement in Greece
2007
Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
Kenya Airways Flight 507
2006
The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
Sudan
1994
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Bishkek Protocol
1994
American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
Caning of Michael Fay
1991
A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1991 Washington, D.C., riot
1987
Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States.
Iran–Contra affair
1985
Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
Ronald Reagan
1981
Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
Bobby Sands
1980
Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
Iranian Embassy siege
1973
Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record.
Secretariat (horse)
1972
Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
Alitalia Flight 112
1964
The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
Council of Europe
1961
Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
Project Mercury
1955
The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
Bonn–Paris conventions
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.
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
1945
World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
Prague uprising
1945
World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
Fu-Go balloon bomb
1945
World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
Battle of Castle Itter