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The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.

2023

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Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.

2010

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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.

2007

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The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.

2006

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The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

1994

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American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.

1994

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A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.

1991

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Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States.

1987

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Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.

1985

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Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.

1981

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Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.

1980

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Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record.

1973

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Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.

1972

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The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.

1964

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Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.

1961

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The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.

1955

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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.

1946

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World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.

1945

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World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.

1945

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World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.

1945

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Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.

1941

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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.

1940

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Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1936

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The 1930 Bago earthquake, the first of two major earthquakes in southern Burma, kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.

1930

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Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.

1920

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The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda is published.

1912

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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.

1905

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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.

1904

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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.

1891

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The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded.

1887

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Workers marching for the eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.

1886

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American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

1877

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Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.

1866

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American Civil War: The Confederate government is declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.

1865

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American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.

1864

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Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.

1862

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The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.

1835

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Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

1821

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The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.

1821

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Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

1809

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In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.

1789

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Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.

1762

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Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.

1654

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King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.

1640

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Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.

1609

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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.

1494

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Election of Count Adolf of Nassau as King of the Romans in the Dominican monastery of Frankfurt.

1292

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Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.

1260

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Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.

1215

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Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem marries Henry II, Count of Champagne.

1192

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The Second Council of Constantinople begins.

553

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