Sunday, May 5, 2024

On This Day in History

May 5

  

Historical Events

1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. 

The panicked scene at the New York Stock Exchange on the infamous morning of Friday, 5 May, 1893

1893 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange. 

1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa. 

1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers. 

1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam. 

1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building. 

1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26-year-old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in Prison Maze. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.. 

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Famous Birthdays

Karl Marx
1818 - 1883

Arthur Leonard Schawlow
1921 - 1999

Michael Palin
81st Birthday

Adele
36th Birthday

Also Tammy Wynette and Craig David (43). 

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Famous Deaths

Napoléon Bonaparte
1769 - 1821

Howard B. Cushing
1838 - 1871

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Around The World With Nellie Bly

Only a man could do it, Nellie Bly was told about her plan to go round the world in less than 80 days. It was a red rag to a bull and she soon achieved the feat 

The Incredible Life of Nellie Bly 

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