5 Mey

The 5t o Mey is the 125t day o the year (126t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 240 days ti come.

 Events 
 1646 - Charles I of Ingland and Scotland gies himsel up tae the Scots Presbyterian Airmy at Newark.
 1821 - Napoleon I dies agit 51 in exile on Saunt Helena.
 1821 - Breetish daily newspaper The Guardian is foondit.
 1842 - The Great Fire o Hamburg stairts.
 1862 - Battle o Puebla: Mexican forces repel a French invasion in the Battle o Puebla.
 1912 - The 1912 Simmer Olympic Gemmes in Stockholm stairts.
 1945 - Warld War II: German forces surrender in Denmark an the Netherlands.
 1949 - The Cooncil o Europe is foondit.
 1950 - The coronation o Keeng Bhumibol Adulyadej o Thailand taks place.
 1955 - Wast Germany gains full sovereignty.
 1961 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space.
 1966 - Borussia Dortmund becomes the first German fitbaw team tae win the European Cup, defeatin Liverpool F.C. 2-1 in extra-time in Glesga.
 2002 - Jacques Chirac is electit tae a seicont term as Preses o Fraunce.
 2005 - Tony Blair's Labour Pairty is electit tae a third consecutive term in the Unitit Kinrick General Election.
 2007 - Kenya Airways Flicht 507 crashes in Cameroon, killin 114 fowk.
 2010 - Preses o Nigerie Umaru Musa Yar'Adua dees in office. Goodluck Jonathan succeeds him.
 2011 - Scots Pairlamentary walin: The Scots Naitional Pairty unner Alex Salmond wins an overaw majority, wi 69 oot o 129 seats, an a seicont term in office.
 2016 - Scots Pairlamentary walin: The Scots Naitional Pairty, unner Nicola Sturgeon, wins a third term in office, despite losin its overaw majority (winnin 63 seats). The Conservatives overtake Labour intae seicont place; The Green Pairty gains 4 seats.
 2018 - NASA launches its InSight probe tae the planet Maurs.
 2019 - Brunei abandons its plan tae punish gay sex wi daith.
 2019 - Aeroflot Flicht 1492 bursts intae flames on its return tae Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, killin 41 oot o 78 fowk on baird.
 2019 - A tanker splosion naur Niamey, Niger, kills at least 58 fowk.

 Births 
 1705 - John Campbell, 4t Yerl o Loudoun, Scots nobleman an airmy afficer (d. 1782)
 1719 - Andrew Meikle, Scots mechanical ingineer (d. 1811)
 1747 - Leopold II, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
 1813 - Soren Kierkegaard, Dens philosopher (d. 1855)
 1818 - Karl Marx, German poleetical philosopher (d. 1883)
 1846 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Pols writer (d. 1917)
 1876 - George Livingstone, Scots fitbawer (d. 1950)
 1914 - Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
 1917 - Davie Shaw, Scots fitbawer (d. 1977)
 1921 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American pheesicist (d. 1999)
 1942 - Tammy Wynette, American sangster (d. 1998)
 1943 - Michael Palin, Inglis actor, comedian an writer
 1949 - Marion Fellows, Scots politeecian
 1954 - Brian Souter, Scots businessman
 1957 - Richard E. Grant, Inglis actor
 1980 - Yossi Benayoun, Israeli fitbawer
 1981 - Craig David, Inglis sangster
 1983 - Henry Cavill, Jersey actor
 1987 - Graham Dorrans, Scots fitbawer
 1988 - Adele, Inglis sangster-sangwriter
 1989 - Chris Brown, American sangster an actor

 Daiths 
 1705 - Leopold I, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
 1731 - Daniel Defoe, Inglis writer (b. 1660)
 1821 - Napoleon, Emperor o Fraunce (b. 1769)
 1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Roushie penter (b. 1817)
 1906 - Eliza Brightwen, Scots naituralist (b. 1830)
 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrick writer an pacifist (b. 1864)
 1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politeecian (b. 1878)
 1977 - Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor o Wast Germany (b. 1897)
 1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Roushie chess player (b. 1911)
 2010 - Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Preses o Nigerie (b. 1951)
 2019 - Barbara Perry, American actress (b. 1921)

 Halidays 
 Cinco de Mayo (Mexico, Unitit States)
 Childer Day (Japan)
 Liberation Day (Denmark, Netherlands)
 Patriots' Day (Ethiopie)
 Europe Day
 Coronation Day (Thailand)
 Martyrs' Day (Albanie)
 Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
 Lusophone Culture Day

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