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SOME CELEBRITIES THAT ARE BORN ON THE 5th OF MAY:
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Brooke Ashley: 1973 |
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| US adult movie actress, formerly known as Fantasia. |
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Anna Bergman: 1949 |
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| Swedish actress, Agent 69 i skorpionens tegn, The Wild Geese, Fanny och Alexander, Åke och hans värld. |
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Nellie Bly: 1864 (died 1922) |
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| US journalist, real name Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, travelled around the world in 72 days. |
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Brigitta Boccoli: 1972 |
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| Italian actress. |
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Eric Burdon: 1940 |
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| Rock Singer, The Animals. |
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Charles Chaplin Jr: 1925 (died March 1968) |
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US Actor, son of "you-know-who" and Lita Grey.
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Louis Cortelezzi: 1952 |
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| Rock saxophonist, Mink DeVille. |
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Melinda Culea: 1955 |
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| US actress, The A-Team, Brotherly Love, The Fisher King, Knots Landing. |
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Lisa Eilbecher: 1957 in Saudi Arabia |
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| US actress, Beverly Hills Cop, Leviathan, An Officer And A Gentleman, The Hardy Boys Mysteries. |
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Alice Faye: 1915 (died May 9 1998) |
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| US actress and singer, real name Ann Jeanne Leppert, Fox musical queen in '30s and '40s. |
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Danielle Fishell: 1981 |
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| Actress, TV show Boy Meets World. |
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Lord Geoffrey F Fisher of Lambeth: 1887 |
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| Archbishop of Canterbury (1945-61). |
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Richard E Grant: 1957 in Swaziland |
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| Brittish actor, Warlock, LA Story, Hudson Hawk, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Prêt-à-Porter, Spice World,
The Serpent's Kiss. |
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Rachel Karen Greene: 1971 |
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| US actor Jenifer Aniston's character in TV-show Friends. |
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Lance Henriksen: 1940 |
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| US actor, Millenium's Frank Black, Aliens' android, Terminator, The Right Stuff's Wally Schirra. |
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Wendy Kaye: 1972 |
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| US Playmate July 1991. |
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Søren Aalys Kierkegaard: 1813 (died March 14 1855) |
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| Danish philosopher, Father of Existentialism. |
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Leopold II: 1747 (died March 1 1792) |
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| Holy Roman emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary (1790-92), as Leopold I grand duke of Tuscany, Italy (1765–90). |
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Kurt Loder: 1945 |
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| US Author, former Rolling Stone Editor, MTV News' Anchor. |
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Maggie MacNeal: 1950 |
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| Dutch singer, real name Sjoukje Smit-van't Spijker, Mouth & MacNeal (I See a Star/Ik zie een ster) 1971-74. |
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Douglas Marland: 1935 (died ?) |
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| US soap opera writer, General Hospital. |
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Ian McCullough: 1959 |
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| Brittish rock vocalist, Echo & The Bunnymen. |
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Karl Marx: 1818 (died Mars 14 1883) |
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| German writer, philosopher, social & political theorist, founder of Communism (The Communist Manifesto). |
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Arnold Meijer: 1905 |
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| Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front. |
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Kevin Mooney: 1962 |
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| English rock bassist, Adam and The Ants 1980-81. |
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Eugénie de Palafox Guzman: 1826 (died June 11 1920) |
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| Spanish empress of France 1852-1870, married Napoleon III Jan 29, 1853 in Paris. |
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Michael Palin: 1943 |
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| Brittish TV/movie actor, comedian, comedy writer, author, Monty Python, Time Bandits, A Fish Called Wanda. |
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George Papadopoulos: 1919 (died 1999) |
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| Greek army colonel, head of state, prime minister & president 1967-73. Charged with treason 1974. |
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Tyrone Power: 1914 (died November 15 1958) |
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| US actor, producer, Jesse James, The Mark of Zorro, The Black Swan, Son of Fury, The Razor's Edge,
Nightmare Alley. |
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Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen: 1833 (died in 1905) |
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| German geographer/explorer. First to use the term "The Silk Road". |
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Ruprecht III Klem: 1352 (died May 18 1410) |
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| German king 1400-10. |
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John Rhys-Davies: 1944 |
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| Brittish actor, The Lord of the Rings' dwarf hero Gimli, The Quest, The Untouchables, many miniseries. |
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Arthur L. Schawlow : 1921 (died April 28 1999) |
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| US physicist, Nobel Prize in 1981. |
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Henryk Sienkiewicz: 1846 (died in November 16 1916) |
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| Polish author, Quo Vadis, Nobel Prize in 1905. |
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Jansen Spencer: 1981 |
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| Australian actor, Neighbours. |
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Sage Stallone: 1976 |
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| US actor, Sylvester's son, Rocky V. |
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Steve Stevens: 1960 |
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| US rock & roll guitarist, Billy Idol. |
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William "Bill" Ward: 1948 |
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| Brittish Heavy Metal drummer of the original Black Sabbath, songwriter. |
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Tammy Wynette: 1942 (died April 6, 1998) |
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| Country singer, TV actress, 1st lady of country music. |
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Tina Yothers: 1973 |
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| US actress/singer, Jaded, herself in Married ... with Children, Perry Mason Mystery. |
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Lasse Åberg: 1940 |
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| Swedish Mickey Mouse enthusiast, writer, production designer, actor, director, Electric Banana Band, Sällskapsresan I-III. |
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SOME ATHLETES THAT ARE BORN ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
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American Football: |
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Tony Canadeo: 1919 |
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| US NFL halfback, Hall of Famer, Green Bay Packers, "The Gray Ghost of Gonzaga". |
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Travis Jervey: 1972 |
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| US NFL Running Back (Green Bay Packers - Super Bowl XXXI). |
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Muhsin Muhammad: 1973 |
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| US NFL Wide Receiver. |
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Baseball: |
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Charles "Chief" Bender: 1883 (died May 22 1954) |
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| US MLB pitcher, the only US Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame. |
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Hideki Irabu: 1969 |
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| Japanese MLB Pitcher. |
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Charles Nagy: 1967 |
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| US MLB pitcher. |
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Basketball: |
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Rushia Brown: 1972 |
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| US WNBA forward. |
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LaPhonso Ellis: 1970 |
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| US NBA forward. |
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Howie Komives: 1941 |
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| US NBA player. |
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Harold Miner: 1971 |
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| US NBA guard. |
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Kalevi "Monni" Sarkalahti: 1950 |
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| Finnish basketball player. |
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Icehockey: |
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Brad Bombardir: 1972 |
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| Canadian NHL defenceman in Nashville Predators. Stanley Cup Champion 2000 (New Jersey Devils). |
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Johan "Moose" Hedberg: 1973 |
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| Swedish NHL goaltender in Vancouver Canucks. |
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Grant Jennings: 1965 |
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| Canadian NHL defenceman, Stanley Cup Champion 1991 and 1992 (Pittsburgh Penguins). |
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Willy Lindström: 1951 |
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| Swedish NHL/WHA Rightwinger, Stanley Cup Champion 1984 and 1985 (Edmonton Oilers), Avco Cup Champion 1976, 1978 and 1979 (Winnipeg
Jets). |
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Zigmund Palffy: 1972 |
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| Slovakian NHL rightwinger in Los Angeles Kings. |
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Pasi Petriläinen: 1978 |
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| Finnish defenceman in World Junior Championship team 1998, drafted by New Jersey Devils. |
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Alexander Ragulin: 1941 (died November 17 2004) |
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| Russian icehockey defenceman, 1972 Summit Series, World Champion 1963-71 and 1973, WC All-Star 1963-67, Olympic Gold 1964, 1968
and 1972. |
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Mikael Renberg: 1972 |
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| Swedish NHL rightwinger in Toronto Maple Leafs, runner-up NHL Calder Trophy 1994, World Champion 1998, WC All-Star 1993. |
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Mike Stapleton: 1966 |
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| Canadian icehockey player, son of Pat Stapleton (Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins). |
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Stefan Öhman: 1976 |
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| Swedish icehockey player in Swedish Elite League team MoDo. |
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Football / Soccer: |
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Bo Larsson: 1944 |
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| Swedish soccerplayer, played in World Cup 1970, 1974 and 1978. |
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Tiffany Roberts: 1977 |
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| US soccer midfielder, Olympic gold 1996, World Champion 1999. |
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Juan Pablo Sorin: 1976 |
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| Argentine midfielder, captained Argentina to victory in the FIFA World Youth Championships in Qatar in 1995. |
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Other sports: |
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Bernt "Bempa" Eriksson: 1942 |
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| Swedish bandyplayer, Silver in World Championships 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977, 109 National Games for Sweden, "Mr. Bandy". |
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Hambletonian 10: 1849 (died March 27 1876) |
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| US trotting horse, "Father of the Trotting Horse". |
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Heike Henkel: 1964 |
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| German high jumper, Olympic Gold 1992, Indoor World Champion 1991, indoor world record holder 1992 (2,07 m). |
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Bryan Ivie: 1969 |
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| US volleyball middle blocker and beach volleyball player, Olympic bronze 1992 and 1996. |
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Charles Jewtraw: 1900 (died January 26 1996) |
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| US 500m speed skater, Olympic gold 1924. |
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Sir Gordon Richards: 1904 (died November 10 1986) |
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| Brittish jockey, winner of 4870 races, Champion Jockey 1925, 1927-29, 1931-40 and 1942-53. |
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SOME CELEBRITIES THAT DIED ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
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Alfonso V: 1028 |
| King of Leon/Galicia 999-1028, died in battle. |
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Emperor Napoleon I
Bonaparte: 1821, born Aug 15, 1769 |
| French king, general, born on the island of Corsica, French emperor 1804-13/1814-15, dementoid, died in exile on the
island of St. Helena. |
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Charles II, the Lame: 1309 |
| King of Naples 1285-1309. |
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Eddie Dunn: 1951 at 54 |
| Comedian, Face to Face, Spin the Picture. |
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Ludwig Erhard: 1977 at 80 |
| German minister of Economic Affairs (CDU). |
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Frederik III, the Wise: 1525 at 62 |
| Ruler of Saxon 1486-1525. |
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Frederik Augustus I, Justified: 1827 at 76 |
| King of Saxon 1806-27. |
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Alfred H Fried: 1921 |
| Austrian/German pacifist, Nobel Prize in 1911. |
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Gaius Galerius: at about 50 |
| Emperor of Rome. |
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Charles R Gallas: 1956 at 88 |
| French lexicographer. |
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Leopold I von Hapsburg: 1705, born 1641 |
| Emperor of Holy Roman Empire. |
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Alexander Hays: 1864 at 44 |
| US union general major, died in battle. |
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Kazimierz II, the Justified: 1194 |
| Grand Duke of Poland 1177-94. |
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Dr. Joseph William Kennedy: 1957, born May 30, 1916 |
| US scientist, one of four co-discoverers of Plutonium. |
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Maurice Maeterlinck: 1949 |
| Belgian playwright, Grand Fairie, Nobel Prize in 1911. |
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Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik: 1995 |
| World chess champion. |
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Pedro III: 1786 |
| King of Portugal. |
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Bobby Sands: 1981 |
| IRA activist, died in his 66th day of his hunger strike. |
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Petro Scaglione: 1971 |
| Italian procureur general, killed by Mafia. |
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Pauline Staegeman: 1909 |
| German feminist. |
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GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
| In 553 | Second Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens. |
| In 1430 | Jews are expelled from Speyer, Germany. |
| In 1640 | English Short Parliament unites. |
| In 1809 | citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. |
| In 1874 | Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law. |
| In 1912 | the first issue of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper "Pravda" was published. |
| In 1920 | US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal. |
| In 1940 | Norwegian goverment in exile forms in London . |
| In 1941 | Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Abeba, exactly five years to the day of when it was occupied by Italy. |
| In 1944 | Gandhi freed from prison. |
| In 1949 | Council of Europe forms and Statue of Council of Europe drawn. |
| In 1950 | Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand. |
| In 1955 | Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce. |
| In 1955 | West Germany was granted full sovereignty by the three occupying powers. |
| In 1980 | siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos and police stormed the building. |
| In 1987 | US Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings. |
| In 2002 | French president Jacques Chirac beats Jean-Marie Le Pen with 81.7 percent of the vote in the second round of French presidential elections. |
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WAR, CRIME AND DISASTER EVENTS ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
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| In 1646 | King Charles I surrenders at Scotland. |
| In 1762 | Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty. |
| In 1842 | city-wide fire burns for over 100 hours in Hamburg, Germany. |
| In 1854 | English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast. |
| In 1862 | A badly supplied and outnumbered Mexican army under General Ignacio Zaragoza defeat French invaders under the command of Napoleon III at the Battle of Puebla: Cinco de Mayo. |
| In 1864 | American Civil War: the Army of the Potomac under the command of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant met General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the Battle of the Wilderness. |
| In 1865 | the first train robbery occurs at North Bend, Ohio when a locomotive overturns and is looted. |
| In 1881 | Anti-Jewish rioting in Kiev, Ukraine. |
| In 1915 | US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924. |
| In 1920 | German-Latvian peace treaty signed. |
| In 1920 | Polish troops occupy Kiev. |
| In 1932 | Japan and China sign a peace treaty. |
| In 1936 | Italian troops occupy Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. |
| In 1939 | flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky, USA. |
| In 1942 | US begins rationing sugar during WW II. |
| In 1945 | World War II: Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control. Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells
Dutch they are liberated. Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague. Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated. |
| In 1954 | military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay. |
| In 1964 | separatists riot in Quebec, Canada. |
| In 1965 | the first large-scale US Army ground units arrived in South Vietnam. |
| In 1972 | Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115. |
| In 1991 | a safe zone is created in northern Iraq by the US to protect the Kurd refugees. |
| In 1994 | North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen. |
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HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT AND SCIENCE EVENTS ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
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| In 1494 | during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, the "New World," Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica. |
| In 1834 | Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz. |
| In 1835 | King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway. |
| In 1853 | R Luther discovers asteroid #26 Proserpina. |
| In 1861 | H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #70 Panopaea. |
| In 1907 | J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #638 Moira. |
| In 1925 | High school biology teacher John T. Scopes, 24, was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution in his
Dayton, Tennessee, US classroom. |
| In 1930 | Amy Johnson, 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off . |
| In 1936 | Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip. |
| In 1961 |
Alan Shepard becomes the 1st American in space as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a
Freedom 7 capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida (suborbital flight at 116.5 miles for 15 minutes, 22 seconds). |
| In 1979 | Voyager 1 passes Jupiter. |
| In 1989 | the Venus orbiter, Magellan, is launched to map the second planet. |
| In 1999 | Renata Chlumska becomes the 1st Swedish woman to climb Mount Everest. |
| In 2000 | a Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon. |
| In 2002 | space tourist, South African Mark Shuttleworth, returned to Earth after a weeklong stay at the ISS. |
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ENTERTAINMENT-MOVIES EVENTS ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
| In 1990 | Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia. |
| In 1997 | Married ... with Children final episode on Fox TV. |
| In 2000 | 5 times Academy Award Winner "Gladiator" openes in theatres in Canada, Mexico and USA. |
| In 2000 | Billy Bob Thornton & Angelina Jolie wed in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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MUSIC EVENTS ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
| In 1891 | Carnegie Hall (then named Music Hall) had it's opening night in New York City with a concert that
included works conducted by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Walter Damrosch. |
| In 1900 | The Billboard began weekly publication. |
| In 1962 | West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer
than any other album. |
| In 1984 | The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde married Simple Minds' Jim Kerr in New York's Central Park. |
| In 1987 | 135 girls fainted at a gig in Liverpool by Curiosity Killed The Cat. |
| In 1988 | Pepsi-Cola commercials featuring Michael Jackson aired in the USSR as the 1st non-Russian company to do
so. |
| In 1990 | a John Lennon tribute concert took place in Liverpool with Hall And Oates, Kylie Minogue, Terence Trent
D'Arby, and Dave Edmunds among the performers. |
| In 1991 | New York's Carnegie Hall celebrated it's centennial with an all-day, all-star concert. |
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SPORTS EVENTS ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
| In 1912 | 5th modern Olympic games openes in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| In 1955 | the baseball musical Damn Yankees opened on Broadway. |
| In 1956 | the World Championships of Judo were first held in Tokyo. |
| In 1966 | Montreal beat Detroit 4 games to 2 for the Stanley Cup, Henri Richard scored the cup-winning goal in OT. |
| In 1969 | Boston beat Los Angeles 4 games to 3 for the NBA Championship title. |
| In 1996 | Martin Prochazka broke a tie with 19 seconds left in the game and the Czech Republic beat Canada 4-2 to win
the World Hockey Championships. |
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WEIRD AND OTHER EVENTS ON THE 5th OF MAY: |
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| In 1749 | Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year. |
| In 1955 | it was 5:55:55 on 5/5/55. |
| In 1990 | Tesla released the album Five Man Acoustical Jam, not on the 5th of May though, but the number in the first word and
the initial letters in the other three words gives 5 MAJ, which is Swedish for 5th of May. |