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Sunday 2024-05-05 Bahrain time
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15 الثور 1402 هجري شمسي
فصل الربيع نوء الذراعين 20
نجم الرشا 7

Upcoming Eids and Islamic events

Upcoming International days

• 5 May World Portuguese Language Day [UNESCO]
• 8 May Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War
• 10 May International Day of Argania

Upcoming National days

• 5 May Kingdom of the Netherlands
• 9 May Guernsey (British Islands)
• 9 May Herm (British Islands)
• 9 May Jersey (British Islands)
• 9 May Sark (British Islands)

Happened this day (05 May) * Source Wikipedia

- Pre-1600
- 553 The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
- 1215 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
- 1260 Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
- 1494 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.
- 1601–1900
- 1609 Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
- 1640 King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
- 1654 Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
- 1762 Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
- 1789 In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
- 1809 Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
- 1821 Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 1821 The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.
- 1835 The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
- 1862 Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
- 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
- 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
- 1866 Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
- 1877 American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- 1886 Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.
- 1887 The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded.
- 1891 The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
- 1901–present
- 1904 Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- 1905 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 The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published.
- 1920 Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- 1930 The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.
- 1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 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.
- 1941 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
- 1945 World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
- 1945 World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
- 1945 World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
- 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.
- 1955 The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
- 1961 Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
- 1964 The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
- 1972 Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
- 1973 Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
- 1980 Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
- 1981 Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
- 1985 Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
- 1987 Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
- 1991 A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
- 1994 The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
- 1994 American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
- 2006 The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
- 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.
- 2010 Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
- 2023 The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.