Editing May 5 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[553]] &ndash; The [[Second Council of Constantinople]] begins.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.xii.ii.html |title=NPNF2–14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils, Introduction |publisher=CCEL|access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref>
*[[1215]] &ndash; Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King [[John, King of England|John of England]] — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the [[Magna Carta]].
*[[1260]] &ndash; [[Kublai Khan]] becomes ruler of the [[Mongol Empire]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Anne Commire|title=Historic World Leaders: Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nDoOAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Gale Research Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8103-8409-5|page=344}}</ref>
*[[1494]] &ndash; On his second voyage to the New World, [[Christopher Columbus]] sights [[Jamaica]], landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.<ref name="pest">{{Cite book|last=Austin Alchon|first=Suzanne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiHHnV08ebkC&pg=PA62|title=A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-8263-2871-7|page=62|access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1609]] &ndash; ''Daimyō'' (Lord) [[Shimazu Tadatsune]] of the [[Satsuma Domain]] in southern [[Kyūshū]], [[Tokugawa shogunate|Japan]], completes [[Invasion of Ryukyu|his successful invasion]] of the [[Ryūkyū Kingdom]] in [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Loo|first=Tze May|title=Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation Into Modern Japan, 1879-2000|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Lexington Books|date=2014|isbn=9780739182482|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjsfAwAAQBAJ|pages=37–38}}</ref>
*[[1640]] &ndash; King [[Charles I of England]] dissolves the [[Short Parliament]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir John Borough|title=Notes of the Treaty Carried on at Ripon Between King Charles I. and the Covenanters of Scotland, A.D. 1640, Taken by Sir John Borough, Garter King of Arms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyxTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR8|year=1869|publisher=Camden Society|pages=8}}</ref>
*[[1654]] &ndash; [[Cromwell's Act of Grace]], aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in [[Edinburgh]].
*[[1762]] &ndash; [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] sign the [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762)|Treaty of St. Petersburg]].
*[[1789]] &ndash; In [[France]], the [[Estates-General of 1789|Estates-General]] convenes for the first time since 1614.
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Mary Kies]] becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. [[patent]], for a technique of [[weaving]] [[straw]] with [[silk]] and [[yarn|thread]].
*[[1821]] &ndash; Emperor [[Napoleon]] dies in exile on the island of [[Saint Helena]] in the South Atlantic Ocean.
*[[1821]] &ndash; The first edition of ''The Manchester Guardian'', now ''[[The Guardian]]'', is published.<ref>{{cite web|first1= Mark |last1=Rice-Oxley| first2=Theresa| last2= Malone |first3= Garry| last3= Blight| first4=Miles| last4= Probyn| title=The Guardian's first ever edition – annotated | url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2021/may/05/guardian-200-first-ever-edition-annotated | date= 5 May 2021| work= [[The Guardian]]| access-date= 5 May 2021 }}</ref>
*[[1835]] &ndash; The [[History of rail transport in Belgium|first railway in continental Europe]] opens between [[Brussels]] and [[Mechelen]].
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Cinco de Mayo]]: Troops led by [[Ignacio Zaragoza]] halt a French invasion in the [[Battle of Puebla]] in [[Mexico]].
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of the Wilderness]] begins in [[Spotsylvania County, Virginia|Spotsylvania County]].
*[[1865]] &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Conclusion of the American Civil War|Confederate government]] was declared dissolved at [[Washington, Georgia]].
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[Memorial Day]] first celebrated in United States at [[Waterloo, New York]].
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[American Indian Wars]]: [[Sitting Bull]] leads his band of [[Lakota people|Lakota]] into Canada to avoid harassment by the [[United States Army]] under [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Nelson Miles]].
*[[1886]] &ndash; Workers marching for the [[Eight-hour day]] in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]] were shot at by [[Wisconsin National Guard]]smen in what became known as the [[Bay View Massacre]].<ref>Wisconsin Labor History Society. (n.d.). Bayview tragedy, 1886. Wisconsin Labor History. Retrieved May 1, 2022, from https://www.wisconsinlaborhistory.org/our-events/bayview-tragedy-1886/</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; The [[Peruvian Academy of Language]] is founded.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elcomercio.pe/luces/libros/5-mayo-paso-dia-hoy-194798-noticia/|title=5 de mayo: ¿Qué pasó un día como hoy?|newspaper=El Comercio|first=Carlos|last=Batalla|date=5 May 2016|access-date=15 June 2023|language=Spanish}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; The Music Hall in New York City (later known as [[Carnegie Hall]]) has its grand opening and first public performance, with [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]] as the guest conductor.

===1901–present===
*[[1904]] &ndash; [[Pitcher|Pitching]] against the [[Philadelphia Athletics]] at the [[Huntington Avenue Grounds]], [[Cy Young]] of the [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans]] throws the first [[Perfect game (baseball)|perfect game]] in the modern era of [[baseball]].
*[[1905]] &ndash; 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.
*[[1912]] &ndash; The first issue of the [[Bolshevik]] newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'' was published.<ref name="Холенко2021">{{Cite book | first = Viktor | last = Kholenko | date = 28 January 2021 | title = НОСТАЛЬЖИ. Повесть-эссе. (Письма из ХХ века). О ВРЕМЕНИ, О ЖИЗНИ, О СУДЬБЕ. | volume= II | publisher = Delibri | page = 384 | language = Russian | isbn = 9785449107626 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_PUlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA384}}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; Authorities arrest [[Sacco and Vanzetti|Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] for alleged robbery and murder.
*[[1930]] &ndash; The [[1930 Bago earthquake]], the former of two major earthquakes in southern [[Burma]] kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |title=5,000 to 7,000 Killed in Burmese Quake; Tidal Wave Wrecks Port; Rangoon Hard Hit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/05/07/archives/5000-to-7000-killed-in-burmese-quake-tidal-wave-wrecks-port-rangoon.html |work=New York Times |date=7 May 1930 |page=1}}</ref>
*[[1936]] &ndash; Italian troops [[March of the Iron Will|occupy]] [[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia]].
*  [[1940]]   &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Norwegian Campaign]]: Norwegian squads in [[Battle of Hegra Fortress|Hegra Fortress]] and [[Battle of Vinjesvingen|Vinjesvingen]] capitulate to [[Nazi Germany|German forces]] after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
*[[1941]] &ndash; Emperor [[Haile Selassie]] returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as [[Liberation Day]] or Patriots' Victory Day.
*[[1945]] &ndash; World War II: The [[Prague uprising]] begins as an attempt by the [[Czech resistance]] to free the city from [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|German occupation]].
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: A [[Fu-Go balloon bomb]] launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near [[Bly, Oregon]].
*  1945   &ndash; World War II: [[Battle of Castle Itter]], one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
*[[1946]] &ndash; The [[International Military Tribunal for the Far East]] begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of [[war crime]]s and [[crimes against humanity]].
*[[1955]] &ndash; The [[General Treaty]], by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Project Mercury]]: [[Alan Shepard]] becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital [[Mercury-Redstone 3|flight]].
*[[1964]] &ndash; The [[Council of Europe]] declares May 5 as [[Europe Day]].
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Alitalia Flight 112]] crashes into Mount Longa near [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]], killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Secretariat (horse)|Secretariat]] wins the [[1973 Kentucky Derby]] in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record.
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Operation Nimrod]]: The British [[Special Air Service]] storms the [[Iran]]ian [[embassy]] in London after a six-day siege.
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Bobby Sands]] dies in the [[Long Kesh]] prison hospital after 66 days of [[hunger strike|hunger-striking]], aged 27.
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Ronald Reagan]] [[Bitburg controversy|visits]] the military cemetery at [[Bitburg]] and the site of the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]], where he makes a speech.
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Iran–Contra affair]]: Start of [[United States Congress|Congressional]] televised hearings in the United States of America
*[[1991]] &ndash; A [[1991 Washington, D.C. riot|riot]] breaks out in the [[Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C.|Mt. Pleasant]] section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a [[Salvadoran]] man.
*[[1994]] &ndash; The signing of the [[Bishkek Protocol]] between [[Armenia]] and [[Azerbaijan]] effectively freezes the [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]].
*  1994   &ndash; American teenager [[Michael P. Fay]] is [[Caning in Singapore|caned]] in [[Singapore]] for theft and vandalism.
*[[2006]] &ndash; The government of [[Sudan]] signs an accord with the [[Sudan Liberation Army]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sudan: Political Protocol between the Sudanese government and Sudan Liberation Army Movement signed - Sudan|url=https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/sudan-political-protocol-between-sudanese-government-and-sudan-liberation-army-movement|access-date=2021-05-22|website=ReliefWeb|date=19 November 2006 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20070505-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-8AL 5Y-KYA Douala Airport (DLA)|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref>
*[[2010]] &ndash; [[Anti-austerity movement in Greece|Mass protests]] in Greece erupt in response to [[austerity]] measures imposed by the government as a result of the [[Greek government-debt crisis]].
*[[2023]] &ndash; The [[World Health Organization]] declares the end of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] as a global health emergency.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65499929|title=Covid global health emergency is over, WHO says|website=BBC News|date=5 May 2023|access-date=5 May 2023}}</ref>