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May 5, 1494 – Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Jamaica and claimed it for Spain.
Birthday of Karl Marx (1818) , German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary, author of “Das Kapital” and The Communist Manifesto, available at next door estore.com
Emperor Napoleon I died in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean on May 5, 1821.
Cinco de Mayo, a holiday in Mexico celebrating the defeat of the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
May 5, 1877, during the Indian Wars, Sitting Bull led his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance on May 5, 1891, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds on May 5, 1904, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. Born Denton True Young, Cy Young’s nickname came from the fences that he had destroyed using his fastball. The fences looked like a cyclone had hit them. Reporters later shortened the name to “Cy”, which became the nickname Young used for the rest of his life
Scopes Trial: the serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes, a Tennessee teacher, for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act in 1925.
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became first American in space (aboard Freedom 7).
On May 5, 1973, Secretariat won the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, a still standing record. He went on to win the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes, the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years. He set records in all three events.