May 5......

May 5 is the 125th (126th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 240 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Environment "What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" — Henry David Thoreau

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Social and Economic Irresponsibility "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument." — Newt Gingrich {Newt's logical flaw is that idea is really anti capitalism run amok; which does not necessarily equate with socialism.}

Thought for the day: "A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 553 - 2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens

● 1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.

● 1382 - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army

● 1430 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany

● 1494 - Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica on his second trip to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria.

● 1640 - King Charles I of England disbands the Short Parliament.

● 1646 - King Charles I of England and Scotland surrenders to the Scottish Presbyterian Army at Newark.

● 1665 - Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow

● 1762 - Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.

● 1780 - Units in George Washington's Revolutionary War Camp in New Jersey mutinied, but the rebellion was put down by Pennsylvania troops.

● 1789 - In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 150 years.

● 1798 - U.S. Secretary of War William McHenry ordered that the USS Constitution be made ready for sea. The frigate was launched on October 21, 1797, but had never been put to sea.

● 1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

● 1809 - The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.

● 1814 - British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego NY

● 1815 - Birth of New England musical artist Ithamar Conkey. In addition to being a well-known church organist and bass soloist, Conkey also penned the hymn tune RATHBUN, to which we sing today, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory."

● 1816 - American Bible Society organized (New York)

● 1818 - Political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia.

● 1821 - Wycomb, England issues order that all unemployed shall be whipped.

● 1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena, where he had been in exile.

● 1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz

● 1835 - In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.

● 1842 - City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)

● 1847 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)

● 1854 - English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast

● 1855 - NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration

● 1861 - Alexandria VA - CS troops abandon city

● 1862 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.

● 1862 - Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg VA

● 1863 - Battle of Tupelo MS

● 1864 - Nellie Bly, the American newspaper writer who challenged herself in an around-the-world race, was born.

● 1864 - Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge

● 1864 - Battle between Confederate & Union ships at mouth of Roanoke

● 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

● 1865 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.

● 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.

● 1874 - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law

● 1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

● 1881 - Anti-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine

● 1886 - A bomb exploded on the fourth day of a workers' strike in Chicago, IL.

● 1886 - The Bay View Tragedy occurs, militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.

● 1892 - The U.S. Congress extended the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years. The act required Chinese in the U.S. to be registered or face deportation.

● 1893 - Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression.

● 1899 - The Religious Tract Society, founded in 1799, celebrated its 100th anniversary in Exeter Hall, London. The Society had by then published and distributed Christian literature in over 270 languages and dialects.

● 1901 - The first Catholic mass for night workers was held at the Church of St. Andrew in New York City.

● 1902 - Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australian Public Service.

● 1908 - Great White Fleet arrives in San Fransisco

● 1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

● 1915 - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom

● 1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

● 1908 - Great White Fleet arrives in San Fransisco

● 1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

● 1915 - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom

● 1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924

● 1917 - Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate with the French Air Service.

● 1918 - Maiju Lassila, Finnish author, journalist, and revolutionist, arrested and was shot and killed while trying to escape imprisonment.

● 1920 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian-American anarchists, are arrested in Boston for murder and payroll robbery. Eventually they are executed for a crime they did not commit. Climaxes postwar anti-radical hysteria of the Wilson-Mitchell period.

● 1920 - German-Latvian peace treaty signed

● 1920 - Polish troops occupy Kiev

● 1920 - US President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal

● 1924 - Unions terminate Twentse textile strike

● 1925 - High school biology teacher John T. Scopes, 24, was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution in his Dayton, Tennessee classroom.

● 1925 - Afrikaans established as an official language in South Africa.

● 1930 - 1st woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)

● 1932 - Japan & China sign a peace treaty

● 1936 - Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip

● 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

● 1939 - Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky

● 1940 - World War II: In London, a Norwegian government-in-exile is formed.

● 1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day.

● 1941 - 2 Fokker's employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England

● 1942 - General Joseph Stilwell learned that the Japanese had cut his railway out of China and was forced to lead his troops into India.

● 1942 - British assault on Diego Suarez Madagascar

● 1942 - US begins rationing sugar during WWII

● 1943 - Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System

● 1944 - Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim

● 1944 - Mohandas Gandhi is freed from prison.

● 1945 - World War II:
● German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation.
● Prague uprising against the Nazis.
● Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated.
● Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
● Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
● In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.

● 1947 - Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850 million in damage

● 1948 - 1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier

● 1948 - Belgian Government of Spaak resigns

● 1949 - The Council of Europe is formed.

● 1950 - American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'The conflict of science and religion is fought between the errors of both camps.'

● 1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand.

● 1954 - A coup d'état carries General Alfredo Stroessner to power in Paraguay.

● 1955 - West Germany gains full sovereignty.

● 1955 - Indies parliament accept hindu-divorce

● 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site

● 1955 - Dr Salk promotes polio vaccine in UK; World-famous American virologist Dr Jonas Salk witnesses a ceremonial polio vaccination in London.

● 1957 - Adolf Schärf elected President of Austria

● 1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak

● 1960 - A government spokesman announces that the plane shot down by the Russians on May 1 was a "weather research plane" and that Francis Gary Powers was a "civilian employed by Lockheed."

● 1961 - Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.

● 1964 - Separatists riot in Québec

● 1965 - 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

● 1967 - First all-British satellite 'Ariel 3' launched; The first ever all-British satellite is successfully launched into orbit from the United States.

● 1969 - Draft resisters burn 231 military induction orders, Los Angeles.

● 1970 - In response to Kent State killings, protests engulf campuses across United States. The first protest occupation of I-5 occurs in Seattle as 1,000 U.W. marchers spontaneously seize the freeway.

● 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site

● 1971 - Last of 14,000 arrests in Washington D.C. anti-war May Day protests. 18 are arrested in Seattle during a 2,000 person anti-war march downtown.

● 1971 - Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)

● 1972 - Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115

● 1976 - Train collision at Schiedam Netherlands, kills 24

● 1979 - Fifteen hundred gather in Livermore, Calif. to protest nuclear research laboratory run by the Univ. of California. Livermore becomes the focus of numerous rallies and direct actions in subsequent years.

● 1979 - Voyager 1 passes Jupiter

● 1980 - SAS rescue ends Iran embassy siege; The siege of the Iranian embassy in London comes to a dramatic end after a raid by SAS commandos.

● 1980 - Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time President of Greece.

● 1981 - Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. It was his 66th day without food.

● 1982 - Basque separatist group ETA murders nuclear engineer, Bilbao.

● 1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1985 - President Ronald Reagan attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany. The visit drew worldwide condemnation because 49 members of the Waffen SS were buried there.

● 1987 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1987 - Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings.

● 1988 - Eugene Antonio Marino, 53, was installed as the archbishop of Atlanta, becoming the first black Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S.

● 1991 - Last U.S. cruise missile leaves Greenham Common Air Base, Britain, site of a decade of strident women's anti-nuclear protests.

● 1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, DC after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.

● 1992 - Mothers of soldiers demand return of sons from extra-territorial fronts, Belgrade, Serbia.

● 1992 - The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.

● 1992 - Wolfenstein 3D is released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game.

● 1994 - Michael Fay was caned in Singapore for vandalism. He received four lashes.

● 1994 - Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections

● 1994 - North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen

● 1997 - Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful

● 2000 - Reformers swept Iran's run-off elections, winning control of the legislature from conservatives for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

● 2000 - conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon

● 2001 - Sun shines on foot-and-mouth crisis; Britain's tourist industry hopes the bank holiday weekend and good weather will attract visitors to areas previously closed due to foot-and-mouth disease.

● 2002 - French President Jacques Chirac was re-elected in a landslide victory over extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.

● 2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term but with a greatly reduced majority.

● 2006 - The government of Sudan signed an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).

BIRTHS

● 867 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931)

● 1210 - King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)

● 1479 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574)

● 1546 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)

● 1747 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)

● 1764 - Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812)

● 1800 - Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)

● 1809 - Frederick Barnard, American president of Columbia College (1864-1889) (d. 1889)

● 1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)

● 1818 - Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)

● 1826 - Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)

● 1830 - John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906)

● 1832 - H.H. Bancroft, American historian and publisher (d. 1918)

● 1833 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d. 1905)

● 1834 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)

● 1846 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)

● 1861 - Peter Cooper Hewitt, American electrical engineer; invented the mercury-vapor lamp (d. 1921)

● 1864 - Nellie Bly, American journalist and adventurer (d. 1922)

● 1865 - Elizabeth Jane Cochran, American journalist and writer (d. 1922)

● 1866 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist (d. 1938)

● 1869 - Hans Pfitzner, Russian-born composer (d. 1949)

● 1883 - Archibald Wavell, British general (d. 1950)

● 1887 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)

● 1890 - Christopher Morley, American writer (d. 1957)

● 1892 - Dorothy Garrod, English archaeologist (d. 1968)

● 1899 - Freeman Gosden, American radio comedian (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy) (d. 1982)

● 1901 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)

● 1903 - James Beard, American chef and cookbook writer (d. 1985)

● 1904 - Sir Gordon Richards, English jockey and racehorse trainer (d. 1986)

● 1908 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)

● 1914 - Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)

● 1915 - Alice Faye, American actress (d. 1998)

● 1916 - Zail Singh, President of India (d. 1994)

● 1919 - Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (d. 1999)

● 1921 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)

● 1923 - Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (d. 2003)

● 1925 - Leo Ryan, United States Congressman (d. 1978)

● 1926 - Ann B. Davis, American actress

● 1927 - Pat Carroll, Actress

● 1931 - Greg, Belgian comic-book writer (Achille Talon) (d, 1999)

● 1933 - John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president

● 1933 - Ace Cannon, Rock musician

● 1935 - Douglas Marland, American television writer (d. 1993)

● 1935 - Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host

● 1936 - Patrick Gowers, British composer

● 1937 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (d. 2000)

● 1938 - Roni Stoneman, Country singer

● 1938 - Michael Murphy, Actor

● 1940 - Lance Henriksen, American actor and painter

● 1941 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004)

● 1942 - Marc Alaimo, American actor

● 1942 - Tammy Wynette, American musician (d. 1998)

● 1943 - Raphael, Spanish singer

● 1943 - Michael Palin, British writer, actor, and comedian (Monty Python)

● 1944 - Roger Rees, Welsh actor

● 1944 - John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor

● 1944 - Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor

● 1945 - Kurt Loder, TV personality (MTV)

● 1948 - Bill Ward, British drummer (Black Sabbath)

● 1952 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (d. 2005)

● 1954 - Dave Spector, American television personality and commentator

● 1956 - Robert Marien, Quebec actor, singer and songwriter

● 1957 - Richard E. Grant, British actor

● 1957 - Peter Howitt, British actor and film director

● 1958 - John Miller, Broadcast journalist

● 1958 - Ron Arad, Israeli aircraft navigator missing in action.

● 1959 - Ian McCulloch, English singer of Echo & the Bunnymen

● 1959 - Brian Phelps, American disk jockey and actor

● 1959 - Brian Williams, American news anchor

● 1961 - Hiroshi Hase, Japanese professional wrestler and politician

● 1962 - Jenifer McKitrick, American songwriter

● 1963 - James LaBrie, Canadian singer (Dream Theater)

● 1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer (Megadeth)

● 1967 - Takehito Koyasu, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)

● 1970 - Kyan Douglas, American TV-personality ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy")

● 1970 - Juan Acevedo, baseball player

● 1970 - Will Arnett, Canadian-American actor

● 1970 - Soheil Ayari, French racer

● 1971 - David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (d. 2005)

● 1972 - Devin Townsend, Canadian musician (Strapping Young Lad)

● 1972 - James Cracknell, British rowing champion, double Olymipic gold medalist

● 1973 - Tina Yothers, Actress ("Family Ties")

● 1973 - Muhsin Muhammad, American football player

● 1976 - Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer

● 1976 - Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer

● 1977 - Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress

● 1978 - Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor

● 1979 - Vincent Kartheiser, American actor

● 1979 - Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and supermodel

● 1981 - Craig David, British singer

● 1981 - Danielle Fishel, American actress ("Boys Meet World")

● 1981 - Marcelle Bittar, Brazilian supermodel

● 1981 - Chris Duncan, baseball player

● 1982 - Jay Bothroyd, English footballer

● 1983 - Henry Cavill, English actor

● 1983 - Scott Ware, American footballer

● 1984 - Wade MacNeil, Canadian guitarist (Alexisonfire)

● 1985 - David Nugent, English footballer

● 1985 - P.J. Tucker, American basketball player

● 1985 - Shōko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, illustrator and singer

● 1987 - John Gotti Agnello, son of columnist and author Victoria Gotti and grandson of mobster John Gotti

● 1987 - Marija Šestić, Bosnian singer

● 1988 - Jessica Dubroff, American aviator (d. 1996)

● 1988 - Brooke Hogan, American singer

● 1988 - Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer and songwriter

● 1989 - Chris Brown, American singer

● 1992 - Jhonatan Saldaña

DEATHS

● 200 - Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)

● 311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor

● 1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia

● 1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)

● 1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)

● 1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)

● 1309 - King Charles II of Naples

● 1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)

● 1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)

● 1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)

● 1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)

● 1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)

● 1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)

● 1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)

● 1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)

● 1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)

● 1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)

● 1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)

● 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)

● 1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)

● 1859 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)

● 1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)

● 1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)

● 1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)

● 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)

● 1941 - Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)

● 1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)

● 1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)

● 1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)

● 1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)

● 1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897)

● 1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)

● 1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)

● 1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)

● 1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927)

● 1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)

● 1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)

● 2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)

● 2001 - Cliff Hillegass, American writer and publisher

● 2001 - Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler

● 2002 - George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)

● 2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)

● 2004 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)

● 2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Angelus of Jerusalem (d. 1222)
● St. Aventinus (d. 1189)
● St. Britto
● St. Crescentiana
● St. Echa
● St. Eulogius of Edessa
● St. Gerontius (d. 472)
● St. Godehart (d. 1038)
● St. Hilary of Arles (d. 449)
● St. Hydroc
● St. Jovinian
● Sts. Jutta of Kulmsee, aka St. Jutta of Sangerhausen or St. Judith of Prussia (d. 1260)
● St. Maurontus
● St. Maximus of Jerusalem
● St. Nectarius
● St. Nicetius
● St. Pius V (1505-1572)
● St. Sacerdos
● St. Theodore of Bologna
● Bl. Aleidis
● Bl. Edmund Ignatius Rice
● Bl. John Haile
● Bl. Sadoc & Companions

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for April 23 (Civil Date: May 5)
● Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George.
● Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of St. George.
● Martyr Alexandra the Empress (also 21 Apr).
● Martyrs Glycerius, Athanasius the Magician, Valerius, Donatus, and Therinus at Nicomedia.
● Blessed George of Shenkursk, fool-for-Christ.
● New-Martyr George of Ptolomais.
● New-Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria who suffered at Pergamus.
● New-Martyr Priest Egor (George) of the Spas-Chekriak village (1918).

● Orthodox Christian:
● St. Adrian of Monzensk
● St. Barlaam of Serpukhov
● New Martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri
● St. Eulogios the Confessor
● St. Euthymios the Wonderworker
● Great Martyr Irene
● Sts. Martin and Heraclius of Illyria
● Martyrs Neophytos, Gaius and Gaianus

● old Roman Catholic:
● Feast of St Pius V, pope (1566-72)

● International Midwives Day

● International No Pants Day

● Council of Europe: Europe Day.

● CPLP - Community of Portuguese-speaking countries: Day of the Lusophone.

● Albania: Martyrs' Day.

● National Makeout Day

● Denmark: Liberation Day (1945).

● Ethiopia: Liberation Day (1941), also Victory Day

● Guyana: Indian Immigration Day (1838).

● Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan (2006): Buddha's Birthday.

● Japan: Tango no Sekku (Boy's Day) or Kodomo no hi (Children's Day).

● Mexico and the United States: Cinco de Mayo (1862).

● The Netherlands: May 5, Liberation day (1945).

● Northern Territory, Australia: May Day.

● South Korea: Children's Day.

● Thailand : Coronation Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Zambia: Labour Day - (Monday)
● New Orleans: McDonogh Day (1850) - (Friday)


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

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