May 5th

May 5 is the 125th (one hundred and twenty-fifth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 126th in leap years. There are 240 days left to end the year.

Events

• 553: The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
• 1442: John II of Aragon agrees with the nobility in the framework of the Courts.
• 1487: In Spain, Boabdil is taken in triumph to the palace of La Alhambra, reintegrating him into the Granada throne while El Zagal retires to Almuñécar (Granada).
• 1494: In the Caribbean Sea, Christopher Columbus arrives on the current island of Jamaica.
• 1518: On the coast of Mexico, Juan de Grijalva discovers the islands of Yucatan.
• 1545: in Spain, Carlos I of Spain creates the General Archive of Simancas.
• 1622: on Zante Island (in the Ionian Sea) 37°36′N 21°00′E / 37.6, 21 a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs on the Richter scale and 9 degrees on the Mercalli scale.
• 1679: the Peace of Nimega is signed, which puts an end to the war between the France of Louis XIV and the allied powers of Spain, the Netherlands and the German Empire.
• 1721: founded Municipality Cortazar (Guanajuato)
• 1789: Two English merchant ships are seized by ships of the Spanish Navy as a protest for the English occupation of Nutca Bay.
• 1789: opening of the General States in Versailles.
• 1808: Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles IV of Spain signed an agreement by which he renounced his crown in favor of the French emperor.
• 1821: On the island of Saint Helena (in the Atlantic Ocean) Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
• 1835: the first Belgian railway line is opened between the cities of Brussels and Malinas.
• 1862: in the battle of Puebla, the Mexican army, under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza, defeats the French interventionist troops.
• 1867: in Chile the commune of Coquimbo is created.
• 1880: León Favre requests patent for a new color system in photography.
• 1887: in Lima (Peru) it is created from the Peruvian Academy of Language.
• 1890: The law on universal suffrage is enacted in Spain.
• 1898 in Mexico is founded by Admiral Othón Pompeyo Blanco Núñez de Cáceres the town of "Payo Obispo" that later would be the city of Chetumal capital of the State of Quintana Roo
• 1902: There is an earthquake in Murcia. Several buildings collapse.

"Kill all those who have more than ten. They are criminals because they were born ten years before we invaded the Philippines" (Jacob H. Smith, American General); published in the New York Journal5 May 1902.

• 1902: In New York, allegations against the Filipino Genocide committed since 4 February 1899 by the United States Government were published. By 1913 the U.S. military will have killed more than a million civilians.
• 1903: the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, states that the Persian Gulf belongs to the Indian border.
• 1904: In Rome, the visit of French President Émile Loubet to Italian king Victor Manuel III provoked the conflict between the curia and the French government.
• 1905: In Santa Fe (Argentina), the Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe is created, one of the most important teams in the interior of the country.
• 1912: In Tortosa (Tarragona) the Ebro channel is opened.
• 1912: the Stockholm Olympics are opened, officially known as the Olympic Games.
• 1913: Austria and Italy renounce to invade Albania.
• 1920: in Madrid, Eduardo Dato forms a government of conservative sign.
• 1921: the London conference launches an ultimatum to Germany.
• 1922: the Allied Air Monitoring Commission leaves Germany.
• 1925: Japan promulgates the Universal Suffrage Act.
• 1927: In Chile, President Emiliano Figueroa presents his resignation and is replaced by Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.
• 1930: in Madrid, the Central University is closed after the continued student demonstrations against the monarchy.
• 1932: The Japanese withdraw from Shanghai, China.
• 1933: in the Bell Laboratories, located in the American town of Holmdel (New Jersey), Karl Jansky discovered radio waves coming from the center of our galaxy (the Milky Way). This discovery is considered the beginning of radio astronomy.
• 1934: the Soviet Union and Poland sign an extension of the non-aggression pact until 1945.
• 1935: in Spain, Alejandro Lerroux forms his fifth Government. The CEDA obtains five portfolios and Gil-Robles is appointed Minister of War.
• 1936: Italian troops enter Abeba and Mussolini declares that Ethiopia is Italian.
• 1936: the first stage of the Cycling Round is celebrated in Spain.
• 1936: In Caspe (Zaragoza) the tasks of a pro-state Congress begin.
• 1936: the new constitution enters into force in China.
• 1939: at the Teatro Poliorama in Barcelona the drama of Eduardo Marquina The holy brotherhood.
• 1939: in Alicante the professor Eliseo Gómez Serrano is shot.
• 1940: In London a Norwegian government is formed in exile.
• 1941: Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Abeba, the capital of Ethiopia.
• 1943: In Europe, General Williams Key assumes U.S. command.
• 1944: In India, Gandhi is released after 21 months of arrest.
• 1945: in Prague there is an anti-fascist uprising that accelerates the end of the Second World War.
• 1948: In Israel, David Ben Gurion chairs the first meeting of the Government.
• 1949: the Treaty of London, the Statute of the Council of Europewith the normative basis of the Council of Europe.
• 1950: the first cyclist return of Colombia begins.
• 1954: In a barge on the crater of the Union bomb (detonated on April 25), in the Bikini atoll, the United States detonates the Yankee hydrogen bomb of 13 500 kilotons. In comparison, the Fat Man (the Nagasaki attack) bomb was 22 kilotons
• 1955: The Federal Republic of Germany regains full sovereignty.
• 1955: On the Nevada Test Site, United States detonates its atomic bomb Apple-229 kt, the penultimate of the 14 bombs of Operation Teapot, and No. 64 of 1054 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1957: In Tunisia, the Neo-Destour Party wins victory in the elections.

Crater left by the explosion of the American nuclear bomb Cactus.

• 1958: on the island Runit of the Atoll Eniwetak (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), the United States explodes its atomic bomb Cactus18 kt. The crater will later be covered with soil and contaminated rubble and will be covered with a concrete dome, called "Dome de la Cactus". It is the second of the 35 bombs of the Hardtack I operation, and the 123 bomb of the 1054 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1958: U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Bolivia.
• 1959: Pier Paolo Pasolini publishes his novel A violent life.
• 1960: U-2 Incident: In the airspace of the Soviet Union, the air defence knocks down a U-2 spy plane from the U.S. Air Force.
• 1961: The United States launches its first manned spacecraft; the pilot was Alan B. Shepard.
• 1964: Israel makes its first attempt to divert the waters of the Jordan into the wilderness of the Negev.
• 1965: at Tenerife North Airport (Tenerife) a plane crashes and 32 people die
• 1971: The OAS grants the Spanish cellist Pau Casals the title of Citizen of Honor of the Americas.
• 1971: The fictitious character of Friends, Rachel Green, was born.
• 1973: in Madrid, Airbus 300 is presented.
• 1974: In the first round of the French elections, François Mitterrand obtained 42% of the votes and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 32.9%.
• 1979: the possibility of destroying the kidney stones by means of shock waves is made known thanks to an apparatus created by the company Dornier (See litiasis).
• 1979: Cobresal Sports Club, a professional team of Chilean football.
• 1980: In Greece, Constantinos Karamanlís is elected president.
• 1982: In Spain, the ETA terrorist gang murders Angel Pascual Mugica, director of the Lemoniz nuclear power plant.
• 1984: in Luxembourg, the song Diggi-loo, diggi-ley of the Herreys brothers, wins for Sweden the XXIX Edition of Eurovision.
• 1984: in the Silver Basin, the Itaipu Dam enters into operation.
• 1987: in Venice the City Council decides to limit the number of tourists entering the city because of the degradation of the urban environment.
• 1989: the Democratic Revolution Party was founded in Mexico City.
• 1989: In Iraq they are attacking President Saddam Hussein, in which his Defense Minister Adnan Jairallah Talfah dies.
• 1990: in Zagreb, the song Insieme 1992The Italian Toto Cutugno is a winner in the 35th edition of Eurovision.
• 1990: Juan Pablo II begins a new visit to Mexico. Two days later Mexico and the Holy See reestablish diplomatic relations after 130 years of rupture.
• 1991: In Avellaneda (Province of Buenos Aires) plays his last football match Ricardo Enrique Bochini, an emblematic player of the Independent Atletic Club.
• 1992: In Crimea, Parliament proclaims independence.
• 1994: In Cuba, Fidel Castro announced the confiscation of “illegitimate goods” and limited self-employment.
• 1996: The opening of the third and final phase of the peace process between Israel and the PLO begins at Taba.
• 1996: José María Aznar swears before King Juan Carlos as Spanish president.
• 1998: in Libya, Manuel Fraga declared himself against the isolation and embargo of Gaddafi.
• 1998: In Barcelona, 11 years after the attack by ETA at the Hipercor warehouses, 12 of those affected receive 106 million compensation pesetas.
• 1999: Elsa Ávila ascends to Mount Everest, being the first Mexican and Latin American woman to achieve the feat.
• 2000: conjunction of all known planets in Antiquity (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon and Sun).
• 2000: The film Gladiator, by Ridley Scott, starred at Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix
• 2000: The cataclysmic slide of the Ice Layer covered by Antarctica, prophesied in 1997 by U.S. writer Richard Noone, which would be caused by planetary alignment, and would lead to a landslide.
• 2000: the first ministers of the United Kingdom (Tony Blair) and Ireland (Bertie Ahern) announced a plan to re-establish the autonomic institutions of Northern Ireland on 22 May 2000, the deadline for the IRA to deliver the weapons.
• 2000: in Iran, the reformist sector that supports President Muhammad Jatami wins in the legislative elections.
• 2002: in Cuba, the revolutionary government releases dissident Vladimiro Roca after five years of deprivation of liberty.
• 2002: the Juventus of Turin wins its scudetto number 26 in the last day after defeating the Udinese Calcio and falling the Inter of Milan defeated before the Società Sportiva Lazio.
• 2002: In Egypt, the Minister of Culture announced the discovery in the region of Guiza (Eastern Cairo) of a new pyramid of the IV Pharaonic dynasty.
• 2002: at the Circuito de Jerez, the Spanish driver Fonsi Nieto achieved the victory in the category of 250 cc in the Spanish GP.
• 2003: In the east of the United States a series of tornadoes are charged 39 fatalities.
• 2003: In Colombia, the governor of the department of Antioquia, Guillermo Gaviria Correa, the former defense minister, Gilberto Echeverri Mejía, and eight military personnel, all of whom were held by the Front 34 of the FARC, are killed by guerrillas of this subversive group when an operation was carried out by the army that intended the rescue of the hostages. The events occurred in the vicinity of the municipality of Urrao, southwest of the department of Antioquia.
• 2004: the scientific journal Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) publishes the treatment of a child suffering from Diamond-Blackfan anemia, a blood disease, from cells obtained from the umbilical cord of his newborn brother.
• 2004: In Paris, the World Organization of Local Cities and Governments (CGLU) is created, based in Barcelona.
• 2005: the IBM multinational chooses Madrid as headquarters for southern Europe.
• 2005: Argentinian poet Juan Gelman gets the Reina Sofia Award for Ibero-American Poetry for his entire career.
• 2005: American scientists get eggs from adult stem cells.
• 2006: the Guardia Civil dismantles an international network dedicated to the exaggeration of submarine archaeological remains in Spain.
• 2006: In Madrid, the police dismantled a network of illegal medical clinics for Chinese citizens and detained several false doctors.
• 2007: International Day of the Fight for the Liberation of Marijuana is commemorated. It takes place in some 232 cities around the world, 22 in Latin America.
• 2009: PopCap Games launches the video game tower-defense, Plants against Zombis.
• 2009: In Peru, after 16 years of absence, Oechsle opened its doors again in the city of Huancayo.
• 2018: Take off NASA's InSight mission to planet Mars, with the main objective of discovering Mars' seismology.

Births

• 1282: Juan Manuel, noble and Spanish writer (f. 1348).
• 1479: Guru Amar Das, third guru sij (f. 1574).
• 1641: Cipriano Barace, a Spanish Jesuit missionary (f. 1702).
• 1775: Pablo Morillo, a Spanish military officer (f. 1837).
• 1813: Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (f. 1855).
• 1818: Karl Marx, thinker, sociologist, philosopher and German economist (f. 1883).
• 1826: Eugenia de Montijo, Spanish aristocrat, wife of King Napoleon III (f. 1920).
• 1828: Albert Marth, British astronomer (f. 1897).
• 1833: Soledad Acosta de Samper, a Colombian writer (f. 1913).
• 1834: Viktor Hartmann, architect, sculptor and Russian painter (f. 1873).
• 1837: Anna María Mozzoni, journalist, feminist and Italian suffrageist (f. 1920).
• 1846: Federico Chueca, Spanish composer (f. 1908).
• 1846: Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor (f. 1926).
• 1846: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer, Nobel Literature Prize in 1905 (f. 1916).
• 1864: Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran), an American journalist (f. 1922).
• 1869: Hans Pfitzner, composer and director of German orchestra (f. 1949)
• 1869: Liang Shiyi, Chinese politician (f. 1933).
• 1874: Jean Marestan, a Belgian journalist and anarchist writer (f. 1951).
• 1879: Pablo González Garza, Mexican military and political (f. 1950).
• 1881: Horace de Vere Cole, Irish poet, writer and bromist (f. 1936).
• 1882: Pio del Río Hortega, a Spanish doctor (f. 1945).
• 1882: Douglas Haig, Australian explorer (f. 1958).
• 1882: Sylvia Pankhurst, Activista, suffristic, internationalist pacifist (f. 1960).
• 1883: Eleazar López Contreras, a Venezuelan military and politician, president of Venezuela between 1935 and 1941 (f. 1973).
• 1885: Agustín Pío Barrios, musician and composer Paraguay
• 1883: Archibald Wavell, British military.
• 1893: Farabundo Martí, Salvadoran revolutionary politician (f. 1932).
• 1897: Giovanna Berneri, an Italian anarchist (f. 1962).
• 1899: Nikolái Vóronov; Soviet military, marshal artillery chief (f. 1968)
• 1907: José Padrón, footballer and Spanish anarchist (f. 1966).
• 1908: Kurt Böhme, German bassist.
• 1908: Jacques Massu, French military (f. 2002).
• 1911: Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess player (f. 2010).
• 1913: Lola Lemos, Spanish actress (f. 2009).
• 1914: Tyrone Power, an American actor (f. 1958).
• 1915: Alice Faye, American actress.
• 1915: Tom Hungerford, Australian writer (f. 2011).
• 1919: Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek politician (f. 1999).
• 1921: Arthur Leonard Schawlow, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981 (f. 1999).
• 1922: Alexandra Akimova, Soviet military aircraft (f. 2012)
• 1924: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentine filmmaker (f. 1978).
• 1926: Ann B. Davis, American actress (f. 2014).
• 1931: Greg, Belgian historietist (f. 1999)
• 1931: Isaac Humala, a Peruvian politician and lawyer.
• 1932: Antonio Agri, violinist, director of orchestra and Argentine composer (f. 1998).
• 1937: Giovan Battista Pirovano, Italian footballer (f. 2014).
• 1938: Jerzy Skolimowski, Polish filmmaker.
• 1940: Lance Henriksen, American actor.
• 1941: Joaquín Leguina, a Spanish politician and writer.
• 1942: María Cristina Gómez, a community leader and a Salvadoran teacher (f. 1989).
• 1943: Michael Palin, British actor and writer.
• 1943: Raphael, Spanish singer and actor.
• 1944: Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer.
• 1944: John Rhys-Davies, British actor.
• 1945: César Alierta, Spanish businessman.
• 1947: Malam Bacai Sanhá, Bissauguinean politician, twice president of Guinea-Bisáu: between 1999-2000 and 2009-2012 (f. 2012).
• 1948: Bill Ward, British musician.
• 1950: Samir Kassir, a Lebanese journalist and teacher (f. 2005).
• 1950: Leticia Moreira, Uruguayan actress.
• 1951: Ron Arad, an Israeli designer, artist and industrial architect.
• 1956: Jean Pierre Noher, Franco-Argentine actor.
• 1957: Peter Howitt, English actor and filmmaker.
• 1959: Ian McCulloch, British singer.
• 1960: Jorge Quiroga Ramírez, Bolivian politician, president of Bolivia between 2001 and 2002.
• 1961: Pedro Reyes, Spanish humorist (f. 2015).
• 1963: James LaBrie, Canadian singer.
• 1964: Minami Takayama, Japanese actress and singer.
• 1966: Shawn Drover, Canadian musician.
• 1966: Salvador Illa, Spanish politician.
• 1967: Takehito Koyasu, voice actor, Japanese singer and mangaka.
• 1967: Maximilian War, Argentinian dancer.
• 1970: Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Russian Archbishop.
• 1971: Cristian Aldana, Argentine musician.
• 1971: Florence Bonelli, Argentine writer.
• 1972: Devin Townsend, Canadian musician and composer.
• 1973: David Janer, Spanish actor.
• 1976: Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine soccer player.
• 1978: Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor.
• 1978: Lilian Tintori, Venezuelan activist.
• 1980: Albert Lopo, Spanish footballer.
• 1980: Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer.
• 1981: Craig David, British singer.
• 1981: Mariano González, Argentine footballer.
• 1981: Danielle Fishel, American actress.
• 1983: Joan Verdú, Spanish footballer.
• 1983: Henry Cavill, British actor.
• 1984: Andrea Guatelli, Italian footballer.
• 1985: Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer.
• 1985: Shōko Nakagawa, singer, model, illustrator, seiyū and Japanese actress.
• 1986: Michael Timisela, Dutch footballer.
• 1987: Marija Šestić, singer Bosnian.
• 1987: Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer.
• 1988: Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer.
• 1988: Adele, British singer.
• 1989: Chris Brown, American singer.
• 1989: Larissa Wilson, British actress.
• 1989: Francisca Lachapel, Dominican television host and actress.
• 1989: Sekou Sanogo Junior, Ivorian footballer.
• 1989: Yūto Suzuki, Japanese voice actor.
• 1990: Hannah Jeter, American model.
• 1991: Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (f. 2013).
• 1991: Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer.
• 1992: Danny Ocean, Venezuelan singer and producer.
• 1994: Adam Zre spinák, Slovak footballer.
• 1994: Mattia Caldara, Italian footballer.
• 1997: Bobby Coleman, American actor.
• 1999: Nathan Chen, American ice skater.
• 2003: Kluiverth Aguilar, Peruvian footballer.
• 2003: Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player.

Deaths

• 1028: Alfonso V, king of Leon and Galician (n. c. 994).
• 1525: Federico III of Saxony, elector sajón.
• 1773: Enrique Flórez, religious and Spanish historian (n. 1702).
• 1776: Jean Astruc, French doctor.
• 1786: Peter III, Portuguese consort king.
• 1804: Antonio José de Cavanilles, botanist and Spanish scientist.
• 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte, military and French emperor (n. 1769).
• 1849: Vicente Salvá, grammar, bibliographer and Spanish editor (n. 1786).
• 1883: Eva Gonzalès, French impressionist painter.
• 1883: Josiah Henson, American social activist (n. 1789).
• 1895: Enriqueta Lozano, a Spanish writer (n. 1829).
• 1912: Rafael Pombo, a Colombian writer and diplomat (n. 1833).
• 1921: Alfred Fried, Austrian journalist and pacifist, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911.
• 1937: Camillo Berneri, Italian philosopher and anarchist (n. 1897).
• 1939: Eliseo Gómez Serrano (49), Spanish teacher and politician (n. 1889), executed by the Francoists.
• 1952: Alberto Savinio, Italian artist.
• 1954: Henri Laurens, French sculptor.
• 1959: Carlos Saavedra Lamas, an Argentine politician and jurist, a Nobel Peace Prize in 1936 (n. 1878).
• 1961: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher.
• 1972: Josep Samitier, Spanish footballer.
• 1977: Julián Soler, actor and director of Mexican cinema (n. 1907).
• 1977: Ludwig Erhard, economist, politician and German Federal Chancellor between 1963 and 1966.
• 1981: Bobby Sands, a politician and a Northern Irish activist (n. 1954).
• 1988: Billo Frómeta, director of the Venezuelan orchestra Billo's Caracas Boys.
• 1989: Jacinto Toryho, anarchist Spanish journalist (n. 1902 or 1911).
• 1990: Walter Bruch, German electronic engineer.
• 1990: Reginald Goodall, British orchestra director and musician.
• 1992: Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (n. 1927).
• 1992: Alejandro Pietri, Venezuelan architect.
• 1995: Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player.
• 1998: Juan Gimeno, Spanish cyclist (n. 1913).
• 2002: Hugo Banzer, Bolivian military and political, twice as president of Bolivia: between 1971-1978 and 1997-2001 (n. 1926).
• 2002: George Sidney, American filmmaker (n. 1916).
• 2003: Walter Sisulu, a South African politician (n. 1912).
• 2003: Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Colombian engineer and politician (n.1962).
• 2003: Gilberto Echeverri Mejía, engineer, businessman and Colombian politician (n.1936).
• 2010: Carlos Llano Cifuentes, Spanish philosopher, member of Opus Dei (n. 1932).
• 2010: Lucho Barrios, Peruvian Boleros singer (n. 1935).
• 2011: Solomon Hakim, a Colombian physician and scientist (n. 1929).
• 2011: Rolo Puente, Argentine actor (n. 1939).
• 2011: Antonio Bernad, Spanish artist (n. 1917).
• 2012: Máximo Pacheco Gómez, a Chilean jurist and politician (n. 1924).
• 2013: Rossella Falk, Italian actress (n. 1926).
• 2016: Dinorah Castiglioni, a surgeon and a Uruguayan teacher (n. 1918).
• 2016: Maurice Sinet, graphic humorist and French political cartoonist (n. 1928).
• 2016: Isao Tomita, a Japanese player and composer (n. 1932).
• 2018: José María Íñigo, Spanish journalist and commentator Eurovision (n. 1942).
• 2020: Millie Small, Jamaican singer (n. 1944).
• 2021: Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma, Indian prelate (n. 1917).

Celebrations

• African World Heritage Day
• World Asthma Day
• International Day of Cell Disease
• International Day of the Partera
• Denmark: Liberation Day
• Holland: Liberation Day
• Spain: Day of Tribute to the deported and deceased Spaniards in Mauthausen and in other fields and to all victims of the Spanish Nazism
• Ethiopia: Liberation Day
• Japan: Children ' s Day
• Mexico: May 5, commemorating the battle of Puebla, in which Mexicans faced French, the first to be the winners.
• Buenos Aires Province (Argentina): Bonaerense Writer Day (conmemorating the disappearance of Haroldo Conti).^{[chuckles]required]}

Catholic saints list

• San Angel de Sicily
• San Avertino de Vençay
• San Briton de Tréveris
• Holy Crescent, martyr
• St. Eulogio, Bishop
• San Eutimio de Alejandría
• San Geroncio de Milan
• San Hilario de Arlés
• San Joviniano de Auxerre
• San León de Calabria
• San Mauronto de Marchiennes
• Highest of Jerusalem
• San Nicecio de Vienne
• Saint Priest of Limoges
• San Teodoro de Bologna, bishop
• The Conversion of Saint Augustine
• Blessed Welcome Mareni
• Beata Catalina Cittadini
• Beato Nuncio Sulpricio