The 5t o Mey is the 125t day o the year (126t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 240 days ti come.
1950 : Coronation ceremony o Bhumibol Adulyadej
2011 : Constituency vote map o Scots Pairlament election
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.
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Adele
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
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 )
Cinco de Mayo celebration
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