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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.
Emperor Napoleon I of France arrived at Portoferraio on the island of Elba on May 4, 1814 to begin his exile.
May 4, 1979 – Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Birthday of Niccoló Machiavelli (May 3, 1469), Italian statesman and author of “The Prince”
In part because of the poem’s popularity, the poppy was adopted as the Flower of Remembrance for the war dead of Britain, France, the United States, Canada and other Commonwealth countries.
The 108-story Sears Tower (now named the Willis Tower) in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world’s tallest building in 1973.
1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, was issued in the United Kingdom.
1915 – The RMS Lusitania departed from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam was renamed the Hoover Dam a second time.
1987 Bill Elliott set the all-time speed record of 212.8 mph at Talladega Speedway during qualifying for the race to be run on May 3, 1987.
On April 29, 1986, in a game against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park, Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox becomes the first pitcher in Major League Baseball to strike out 20 batters in a nine-inning game. Ten years later, Clemens repeated the feat, the only player in baseball history to do so.
Eeyore’s Birthday – (Eeyore is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne. He is generally characterized as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic [not able to feel pleasure], old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh.)
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On April 27, 1840, the foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, was laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
On April 27, 1865, the steamboat