About May 5
May 5, 2024 is the 126th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 269 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 5
- 553 –The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
- 1215 –Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
- 1260 –Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
- 1789 –In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
- 1809 –The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
- 1821 –Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 1860 –Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1866 –Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
- 1920 –Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- 1936 –Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
- 1940 –World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
- 1941 –Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots’ Victory Day.
- 1949 –The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
- 1964 –The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
- 1980 –Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
- 1991 –A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
- 1994 –The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
- 2006 –The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
- 2010 –Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
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