5th may history.... 553 - 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens 1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. 1382 - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army 1430 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany 1494 - On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica 1640 - English Short Parliament unites 1646 - King Charles I surrenders at Scotland 1665 - Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow 1726 - Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris 1762 - Russia & Prussia sign peace treaty, Treaty of Saint Petersburg ending the Seven Years War 1764 - Smolny-institution forms in St Petersburg for noble girls 1780 - 2nd oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms (Boston) 1789 - French States-General for It first since 1614 together 1809 - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland 1809 - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw) 1814 - British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY 1816 - American Bible Society organized (NY) 1834 - Charles Darwins expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz 1835 - King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin 1842 - City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany) 1847 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia) 1854 - English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast 1855 - NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration 1861 - Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city 1862 - French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo 1862 - Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA 1863 - Battle of Tupelo, MS 1863 - Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round 1864 - Atlanta Campaign: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge 1864 - Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke 1864 - Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern) 1864 - Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA 1865 - 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio) 1874 - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law 1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. 1881 - Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine 1886 - The Bay View Tragedy occurs, as militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven. Composer Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyComposer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1891 - Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor 1893 - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange 1900 - The Billboard began weekly publication 1904 - Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Phila As (3-0) 1905 - Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper Chicago Defender 1908 - 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens on Stone Street wins in 2:15.2 1908 - Great White Fleet arrives in SF 1912 - 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden 1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) 1915 - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom 1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924 1917 - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 1920 - German-Latvian peace treaty signed 1920 - Polish troops occupy Kiev 1920 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1921 - 1st ranger for Cleveland Metroparks hired 1921 - Miniature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm) 1922 - Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) 1924 - Unions terminate Twentse textile strike 1925 - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 1925 - Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases) 1925 - Yankee Everett Scott is benched, ending his 1,307-game playing streak 1925 - Afrikaans is established as an official language in South Africa. 1926 - Geldrop soccer team forms 1926 - Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for Arrowsmith 1927 - Dmitri Shostakovitchs 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin 1930 - Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia 1930 - Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours 1932 - Japan & China sign a peace treaty 1934 - 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04 1935 - Jesse Owens of US sets long jump record at 26 8½ 1936 - Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa 1938 - Phillies Harold Kelleher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning 1939 - Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky 1940 - Norwegian government in exile forms in London 1941 - 2 Fokkers employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England 1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa 1941 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) 1941 - Chanel No. 5 was released.
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