752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico assumes the throne.
1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1715 – A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy.
1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It's the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
1846 – During the Mexican American War the Mexican Army begins the Siege of Fort Texas near Brownsville, Texas.
1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
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1860 – Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 – The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
1877 – Labatt Park, the oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world has its first game.
1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1915 – The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.
1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
1921 – Ireland is partitioned into two self-governing territories, Northern and Southern Ireland (now the Republic of Ireland).
1928 – Jinan incident: Armed conflict breaks out between the Japanese Army allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army in Jinan, the capital of Shandong during the Kuomintang's Northern Expedition.
1936 – Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut with the New York Yankees.
1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek, and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.
1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
1951 – The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
1960 – The Off-Broadway musical comedy, The Fantasticks, opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
1960 – The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1960 - The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is established.
1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner (Flight UL512) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h).
2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2002 – A military MiG-21 aircraft crashes into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight.
2003 – New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses.
2015 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Finding of the Holy Cross Double of the Second Class
Commemoration of SS. Alexander, Eventius, and Theodulus, Martyrs,
and Juvenal, Bishop of Narni, Confessor.
Contemporary Western
Antonia and Alexander
Juvenal of Narni
Moura
Philip and James the Lesser
Pope Alexander I
The Most Holy Virgin Mary Queen of Poland
Juvenal of Narni
Moura
Philip and James the Lesser
Pope Alexander I
The Most Holy Virgin Mary Queen of Poland
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Timothy the Reader and his wife Maura of Antinopolis in Egypt (304)
Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning (285-305)
Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire
Great martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, Wonderworker (318)
Saint Mamai the Katholikos of Georgia (744)
Saint Michael of Ulompo, Georgia (9th c.)
Saint Arsenius of Georgia (9th c.)
Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis (925)
Saint Ecumenius of Trikala, the Wonderworker (10th c.)
Martyrs Diodoros and Rodopianos, at Aphrodisia in Anatolia, by stoning (285-305)
Holy 27 Martyrs who died by fire
Great martyr Xenia of Peloponnesus, Wonderworker (318)
Saint Mamai the Katholikos of Georgia (744)
Saint Michael of Ulompo, Georgia (9th c.)
Saint Arsenius of Georgia (9th c.)
Saint Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argolis (925)
Saint Ecumenius of Trikala, the Wonderworker (10th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Alexander I, the fifth Pope of Rome (c. 106-115)
Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (c. 113-119)
Saint Juvenal of Narni (c. 369/377)
Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th c.)
Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of St Columba (563)
Saint Adalsindis, sister of St Waldalenus, founder of the monastery of Bèze
in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze (c. 680)
Saint Æthelwine (Elwin, Ethelwin), Bishop of Lindsey (c. 700)
Saint Philip of Worms (Philip of Zell) (770)
Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)
Martyrs Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus (c. 113-119)
Saint Juvenal of Narni (c. 369/377)
Saint Glywys (Gluvias) of Cornwall (5th c.)
Saint Scannal of Cell-Coleraine in Ireland, a disciple of St Columba (563)
Saint Adalsindis, sister of St Waldalenus, founder of the monastery of Bèze
in France, Abbess of a convent near Bèze (c. 680)
Saint Æthelwine (Elwin, Ethelwin), Bishop of Lindsey (c. 700)
Saint Philip of Worms (Philip of Zell) (770)
Saint Ansfried, Bishop of Utrecht (1010)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Theodosius, abbot of the Kiev Caves Monastery and founder of cenobitic
monasticism in Russia (1074)
St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th c.)
Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery
of the Conception in Moscow
Saint Gregory Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott
of Kamennoi Monastery (Monastery of the Transfiguration) at Kubenski
Lake, in Vologda province) (1416)
Martyr Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)
Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th c.)
New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821)
Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)
monasticism in Russia (1074)
St. Theophanes of Vatopedi, Metropolitan of Peritheorion (near Xanthi) (14th c.)
Schema-abbess Juliana (1393) and Schema-nun Eupraxia (1394), of the Monastery
of the Conception in Moscow
Saint Gregory Archbishop of Rostov, Yiaroslavl and White Lake (Abbott
of Kamennoi Monastery (Monastery of the Transfiguration) at Kubenski
Lake, in Vologda province) (1416)
Martyr Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)
Martyr Paul of Vilnius, Lithuania (17th c.)
New Martyrs Anastasia and Christodoulos, at Achaea (1821)
Saint Irodion of Lainici, Abbot of Lainici Monastery in Romania (1900)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Benevolsky, priest of Alma-Ata (1941)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics of Saint Luke of Mt. Stirion (953)
Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople,
to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)
"Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)
Translation of the Dormition Icon of the Mother of God from Constantinople,
to the Kiev-Pechersk Far Caves (1073)
"Svenskaya" (Kiev Caves) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1288)
Abhai
Coptic Church
Moura
Sarah the Martyr
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