What Happened On This Day – 5 May
· 1980 The British Special Air Service (SAS) terminate the Iranian Embassy siege in London
Six gunmen had held 26 people hostage for six days,
demanding the release of Iranian Arab prisoners. Two of the hostages were
killed.
· 1955 West Germany regains full sovereignty after World War II
The Federal Republic of Germany had been
established in 1949. Its provisional capital was Bonn. After the 1990 reunification of East
and West Germany, Berlin was declared the
country's capital.
· 1949 The Council of Europe is founded
The organization was the first to work for European
integration. It has 47 member countries and is a completely separate entity
from the European Union (EU).
· 1934 The first Three Stooges film is released
The comedy trio soon became famous, especially in
the U.S.,
for their short films featuring slapstick humor.
· 1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern major league baseball
A game is considered perfect when none of the
opposing players reaches the first base. Young's team, the Boston Americans,
won 3-0 over the Philadelphia Athletics
Births On This Day – 5 May
· 1988 Adele
English singer-songwriter, musician
· 1943 Michael Palin
English actor, screenwriter
· 1830 John Batterson Stetson
American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson
Company
· 1818 Karl Marx
German philosopher
· 1813 Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher, author
Deaths On This Day – 5 May
· 2013 Greg Quill
Australian/Canadian singer-songwriter, journalist
· 2000 Gino Bartali
Italian cyclist
· 1995 Mikhail Botvinnik
Russian chess player
· 1977 Ludwig Erhard
German politician, 2nd Chancellor of West Germany
· 1821 Napoleon
Corsican/French military officer, political leader
