Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 5
This is a list of selected May 5 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall -
First issue of Pravda -
Alan Shepard during his flight
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| St George's Day (Palestinians); | refimprove section |
| Liberation Day in Denmark, Ethiopia, and the Netherlands; | refimprove |
| ; Children's Day in Japan and South Korea | refimprove section |
| 1260 – Kublai Khan claimed the title of Khagan of the Mongol Empire after the death of his older brother Möngke in the previous year. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1789 – The Estates General convened in Versailles to discuss a financial crisis in France, triggering a series of events that led to the French Revolution. | refimprove |
| 1860 – Led by Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi, the volunteer Expedition of the Thousand set sail from Genoa on a campaign to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. | needs more footnotes |
| 1862 – Mexican troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halted a French invasion at the Battle of Puebla. | refimprove section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County. | refimprove section |
| 1891 – New York City's Carnegie Hall, built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – The Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was first published in Saint Petersburg, Russia. | unreferenced section |
| 1949 – Ten European countries signed the Treaty of London, creating the Council of Europe, today one of the oldest international organisations working for European integration. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – The Supreme Council of Crimea declared Crimea to be independent from Ukraine. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1994 – Nagorno-Karabakh War | saved for February 20, the start of the war |
| 2005 – The United Kingdom general election was held, leading to a record third consecutive term for Tony Blair as a Labour Prime Minister. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople, considered by many Christian churches to have been the fifth Christian Ecumenical Council, began to discuss the topics of Nestorianism and Origenism, among others.
- 1904 – Pitcher Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of professional baseball.
- 1940 – World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers in Hegra Fortress finally surrendered to a vastly superior Nazi force after a 25-day siege.
- 1961 – Project Mercury: Aboard the American spacecraft Freedom 7, Alan Shepard (pictured) made a sub-orbital flight, becoming the second person to travel into outer space.
- 1980 – The British Special Air Service stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, six days after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it.
- 1991 – Rioting broke out in Washington, D.C., after a rookie police officer shot a Salvadorean man in the chest.
- 1992 – The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified 202 years after it was proposed.
- 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.
- 2010 – A series of demonstrations in Athens and general strikes across Greece began in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the debt crisis.
- Born/died: Guru Amar Das (b. 1479) · Søren Kierkegaard (b. 1813) · Dorothy Garrod (b. 1892) · August Wilhelm von Hofmann (d. 1892) · Adele (b. 1988)
May 5: Children's Day in Japan; Cinco de Mayo (dancers pictured) in Mexico and the United States
- 1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, which pardoned the people of Scotland for any crimes they may have committed during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, was proclaimed in Edinburgh.
- 1809 – Mary Dixon Kies became one of the first American women to receive a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops captured Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, unopposed.
- 1981 – After a sixty-six day hunger strike, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.
- 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
Samuel Cooper (d. 1672) · Hubert Howe Bancroft (b. 1832) · Irene Gut Opdyke (b. 1922)