Kublai Khan won the Mongol throne by defeating his younger brother Ariq Böke in a four-year civil war that killed tens of thousands of their own people. The empire split. Kublai controlled China and the east, but the western khanates—including the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate—never truly recognized his authority again. He'd become Great Khan by tearing apart the very thing Genghis had built: a unified Mongol world. The largest contiguous empire in history fractured the moment he claimed it.
Napoleon I breathed his final breath on Saint Helena, ending a life that had reshaped Europe's borders and legal systems through conquest. His death transformed him from a defeated general into a mythic figure, fueling romantic nationalism across the continent for generations to come.
Mexican forces repelled a larger, better-equipped French army at Puebla, delivering a crucial morale boost that slowed the invaders' advance toward Mexico City despite their eventual defeat. This unexpected victory birthed El Día de la Batalla de Puebla in the state of Puebla and evolved into the widely celebrated Cinco de Mayo across the United States.
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The emperor wasn't even there.
The emperor wasn't even there. Justinian I called 165 bishops to Constantinople to settle a theological fight that had been splitting Christians for a century—but stayed in his palace, sending instructions through messengers. The bishops condemned three dead theologians for writings about Christ's nature, hoping to reconcile Eastern churches without alienating Rome. It backfired. Pope Vigilius, literally in Constantinople at the time, refused to attend his own council. The Western church ignored the decisions for decades. Turns out you can't force unity by committee, even with imperial backing.
les Perses prennent Jérusalem en Palestine et emmènent le patriarche et la population en captivité, ils s'emparent de…
les Perses prennent Jérusalem en Palestine et emmènent le patriarche et la population en captivité, ils s'emparent de la Vraie Croix comme trophée de leur triomphe sur l'empire byzantin à dominante chrétienne.
consécration de la collégiale Sainte-Marie, future abbaye Saint-Corneille, construite par Charles le Chauve, petit-fi…
consécration de la collégiale Sainte-Marie, future abbaye Saint-Corneille, construite par Charles le Chauve, petit-fils de Charlemagne, à Compiègne, dont il voulait faire la capitale de l'empire d'Occident.
en Al Ándalus (España), el caudillo andalusí Almanzor parte de Córdoba con un numeroso ejército con el objetivo de ar…
en Al Ándalus (España), el caudillo andalusí Almanzor parte de Córdoba con un numeroso ejército con el objetivo de arrasar el condado de Barcelona.
reprise de Valence par les Almoravides de Youssef ben Tachfine.
reprise de Valence par les Almoravides de Youssef ben Tachfine.
Lech le Blanc devient duc de Pologne.
Lech le Blanc devient duc de Pologne.
Rebel barons formally renounced their allegiance to King John, declaring open war against the English crown.
Rebel barons formally renounced their allegiance to King John, declaring open war against the English crown. This bold act of defiance forced the King to negotiate at Runnymede just weeks later, where he accepted the Magna Carta and established the principle that the monarch remains subject to the law of the land.
Kublai Khan won the Mongol throne by defeating his younger brother Ariq Böke in a four-year civil war that killed ten…
Kublai Khan won the Mongol throne by defeating his younger brother Ariq Böke in a four-year civil war that killed tens of thousands of their own people. The empire split. Kublai controlled China and the east, but the western khanates—including the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate—never truly recognized his authority again. He'd become Great Khan by tearing apart the very thing Genghis had built: a unified Mongol world. The largest contiguous empire in history fractured the moment he claimed it.
Der römisch-deutsche König Wenzel aus dem Haus Luxemburg erlässt auf dem Reichstag in Eger den Landfrieden von Eger, …
Der römisch-deutsche König Wenzel aus dem Haus Luxemburg erlässt auf dem Reichstag in Eger den Landfrieden von Eger, mit dem der Schwäbische Städtebund verboten wird, der sich gerade im Städtekrieg mit den süddeutschen Herzogtümern befindet.
Juan II de Aragón pacta con la nobleza en el marco de las Cortes.
Juan II de Aragón pacta con la nobleza en el marco de las Cortes.
en Al Ándalus (España), Boabdil es llevado en triunfo al palacio de La Alhambra, reintegrándosele en el trono granadi…
en Al Ándalus (España), Boabdil es llevado en triunfo al palacio de La Alhambra, reintegrándosele en el trono granadino mientras El Zagal se retira a Almuñécar (Granada).
Christopher Columbus sighted the Jamaican coastline during his second voyage, claiming the island for the Spanish cro…
Christopher Columbus sighted the Jamaican coastline during his second voyage, claiming the island for the Spanish crown upon landing at Discovery Bay. This arrival initiated over 150 years of Spanish colonial rule, which fundamentally restructured the island’s demographics and economy through the introduction of European agriculture and the subsequent collapse of the indigenous Taíno population.
Christopher Columbus waded ashore at Discovery Bay, claiming the island of Jamaica for the Spanish Crown during his s…
Christopher Columbus waded ashore at Discovery Bay, claiming the island of Jamaica for the Spanish Crown during his second voyage. This arrival initiated over a century of Spanish colonial rule, which decimated the indigenous Taíno population through forced labor and European diseases while establishing the island as a strategic base for further Caribbean exploration.
Martin Luther, bisher gegenüber der Sache der Bauern im Bauernkrieg aufgeschlossen, distanziert sich nach der Weinsbe…
Martin Luther, bisher gegenüber der Sache der Bauern im Bauernkrieg aufgeschlossen, distanziert sich nach der Weinsberger Bluttat in der Schrift Wider die Mordischen und Reubischen Rotten der Bawren von den aufbegehrenden Bauern, die sich auch auf ihn berufen.
les luthériens allemands refusent une invitation du pape Paul II à un concile général.
les luthériens allemands refusent une invitation du pape Paul II à un concile général.
en España, Carlos I de España crea el Archivo General de Simancas.
en España, Carlos I de España crea el Archivo General de Simancas.
In der Seeschlacht von Okpo nahe der koreanischen Insel Geojedo besiegt die koreanische Flotte die japanische im Imji…
In der Seeschlacht von Okpo nahe der koreanischen Insel Geojedo besiegt die koreanische Flotte die japanische im Imjin-Krieg.
The invasion fleet sailed past Okinawa's coral reefs with three thousand samurai who'd never fought a naval campaign …
The invasion fleet sailed past Okinawa's coral reefs with three thousand samurai who'd never fought a naval campaign before. Shimazu Tadatsune wanted China trade routes, and the Ryūkyū Kingdom sat right in the middle. His men took Shuri Castle in weeks—the Ryūkyūans had no guns, just ceremonial swords and a tributary relationship with Ming China they thought would protect them. For the next 260 years, Satsuma forced Okinawa into a bizarre double life: publicly still independent and paying tribute to China, secretly a Japanese vassal state funding Satsuma's economy. Two masters, one kingdom.
en la isla Zante (en el mar Jónico) 37°36′N 21°00′E / 37.6, 21 se produce un terremoto de magnitud 6,6 en la escala…
en la isla Zante (en el mar Jónico) 37°36′N 21°00′E / 37.6, 21 se produce un terremoto de magnitud 6,6 en la escala de Richter y de 9 grados en la escala sismológica de Mercalli.
Three weeks.
Three weeks. That's how long the Short Parliament sat before Charles I sent them home in fury. He'd called them desperate for money—Scottish rebels were marching south and the royal treasury was empty. Parliament's price? Address their grievances first. Charles refused. He'd rule without them, he decided, and find the cash elsewhere. Eleven years he'd already governed alone. But this dismissal was different. Within months he'd be forced to summon Parliament again, and that one wouldn't dissolve. That one would start a war.
Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg besiegt Franz von Mercy mit einem zahlenmäßig kleineren Heer die von Henri de Turenne befehl…
Im Dreißigjährigen Krieg besiegt Franz von Mercy mit einem zahlenmäßig kleineren Heer die von Henri de Turenne befehligten Franzosen durch ein Überraschungsmanöver in der Schlacht bei Herbsthausen.
Oliver Cromwell called it "grace," but the fine print told a different story.
Oliver Cromwell called it "grace," but the fine print told a different story. His 1654 pardon for Scottish Royalists excluded anyone who'd fought at Dunbar or Worcester—meaning most of Scotland's nobility couldn't take it. And those who could accept? They had to publicly renounce the Covenant, the religious document they'd sworn before God to uphold. Edinburgh heard the proclamation in silence. Reconciliation, it turned out, meant choosing between your eternal soul and your confiscated estate. Some acts of grace cost more than punishment ever could.
Die portugiesische Galeone Santissimo Sacramento läuft aufgrund eines Navigationsfehlers vor Salvador da Bahia in Bra…
Die portugiesische Galeone Santissimo Sacramento läuft aufgrund eines Navigationsfehlers vor Salvador da Bahia in Brasilien auf ein Riff und sinkt. Von den über 1.000 Menschen an Bord können sich nur 70 retten. Es handelt sich um den folgenschwersten Seeunfall in der Geschichte Brasiliens.
par lettre patente, Louis XIV attribue, au directoire de la noblesse de Basse-Alsace, les compétences d'un présidial.
par lettre patente, Louis XIV attribue, au directoire de la noblesse de Basse-Alsace, les compétences d'un présidial.
Gottfried und Maria Margaretha Kirch entdecken den später von Charles Messier als Messier 5 bezeichneten Kugelsternha…
Gottfried und Maria Margaretha Kirch entdecken den später von Charles Messier als Messier 5 bezeichneten Kugelsternhaufen im Sternbild Schlange.
se funda Municipio Cortazar (Guanajuato)
se funda Municipio Cortazar (Guanajuato)
Tsar Peter III abruptly ended Russia’s participation in the Seven Years' War by signing the Treaty of St. Petersburg,…
Tsar Peter III abruptly ended Russia’s participation in the Seven Years' War by signing the Treaty of St. Petersburg, returning all captured Prussian territories to Frederick the Great. This sudden reversal saved Prussia from total collapse and ensured its survival as a major European power, shifting the balance of continental dominance for the next century.
apertura de los Estados Generales en Versalles.
apertura de los Estados Generales en Versalles.
dos buques mercantes ingleses son apresados por naves de la Armada española como protesta por la ocupación inglesa de…
dos buques mercantes ingleses son apresados por naves de la Armada española como protesta por la ocupación inglesa de la bahía de Nutca.
The meeting room hadn't been dusted in 175 years.
The meeting room hadn't been dusted in 175 years. When Louis XVI called the Estates-General in May 1789, nobody alive had attended one before—the last delegates met when Shakespeare was still writing. The Third Estate showed up representing 98% of France but got only one-third of the votes, same as the tiny First and Second Estates combined. Within six weeks, they'd storm off and declare themselves the National Assembly instead. Turns out when you ignore 27 million people for two centuries, they stop waiting for permission.
bataille de Thouars, pendant la guerre de Vendée.
bataille de Thouars, pendant la guerre de Vendée.
كانتون أرجاو في سويسرا يلغي مواطنة تابعي الديانة اليهودية.
كانتون أرجاو في سويسرا يلغي مواطنة تابعي الديانة اليهودية.
Mary Kies figured out how to weave straw into silk and thread, creating hats that didn't fall apart in rain.
Mary Kies figured out how to weave straw into silk and thread, creating hats that didn't fall apart in rain. Patent X1778, signed May 5, 1809. First woman's name on a U.S. patent. Her technique kept New England's hat industry alive during the Embargo Act when imported materials vanished. She never made much money from it—patents didn't work that way for women then. But here's what mattered: the Patent Office had to write "Miss" on official documents. They'd never done that before. Someone had to be first to prove the system would even process the paperwork.
The Swiss canton of Aargau formally barred Jewish residents from obtaining citizenship, codifying a discriminatory po…
The Swiss canton of Aargau formally barred Jewish residents from obtaining citizenship, codifying a discriminatory policy that persisted for decades. This exclusion forced the Jewish population into a legal limbo, restricting their ability to own land or practice certain trades until federal pressure finally compelled the canton to grant equal rights in 1866.
O exército aliado anglo-luso derrota o exército francês na Batalha de Fontes de Onor.
O exército aliado anglo-luso derrota o exército francês na Batalha de Fontes de Onor.
Wellington Holds: French Assault Fails at Fuentes de Onoro
Marshal Massena's French army drove into Wellington's overextended right flank at Fuentes de Onoro, but repeated frontal assaults failed to take the town itself. The Anglo-Portuguese force held its ground by nightfall, preserving the siege of Almeida and demonstrating Wellington's ability to improvise defensive positions under pressure on the Iberian Peninsula.
The first issue cost seven pence and came out on Saturdays only—because its founder, John Edward Taylor, had a day jo…
The first issue cost seven pence and came out on Saturdays only—because its founder, John Edward Taylor, had a day job as a cotton merchant. He'd watched cavalry charge into a crowd of 60,000 protesters at St. Peter's Field two years earlier, sabers drawn. Fifteen dead. The local papers called it justified. Taylor disagreed, publicly, and figured Manchester needed a paper that wouldn't lie about what happened in its own streets. Within a decade it went daily. Today it's read in 180 countries, still running stories that make powerful people uncomfortable.
Napoleon Dies in Exile: An Era Ends
Napoleon I breathed his final breath on Saint Helena, ending a life that had reshaped Europe's borders and legal systems through conquest. His death transformed him from a defeated general into a mythic figure, fueling romantic nationalism across the continent for generations to come.
ouverture de la Bibliothèque Raczyński.
ouverture de la Bibliothèque Raczyński.
Steam locomotives began hauling passengers between Brussels and Mechelen, launching the first railway on the European…
Steam locomotives began hauling passengers between Brussels and Mechelen, launching the first railway on the European continent. This connection slashed travel times between the two cities from hours to minutes, proving the economic viability of rail and triggering a rapid, state-sponsored expansion of tracks that transformed Belgium into the industrial heart of Europe.
Im Haus Nummer 44 in der Deichstraße am Nikolaifleet beim Cigarrenmacher Cohen in Hamburg wird ein Brand gelegt.
Im Haus Nummer 44 in der Deichstraße am Nikolaifleet beim Cigarrenmacher Cohen in Hamburg wird ein Brand gelegt. Obwohl er rasch entdeckt wird, gelingt es der Feuerwehr nicht, ihn unter Kontrolle zu bekommen. Der Hamburger Brand dauert über drei Tage, 1700 Häuser werden zerstört, 51 Menschen kommen ums Leben, 20.000 verlieren ihr Heim.
fondation de l'Association médicale américaine.
fondation de l'Association médicale américaine.
les insurgés polonais affrontent l'armée prussienne à Oborniki.
les insurgés polonais affrontent l'armée prussienne à Oborniki.
A thousand volunteers.
A thousand volunteers. That's all Garibaldi took from Genoa in May 1860—shopkeepers, students, a few veterans—crammed onto two rickety steamships to overthrow Europe's fourth-largest army. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies had 100,000 troops. He had red shirts and momentum. Seven months later, he'd conquered Sicily and Naples, handed half of Italy to King Victor Emmanuel, and refused every reward. Then he went home to his island with a bag of seed corn. One thousand men created a nation by forgetting the odds completely.
embarquement des troupes de Garibaldi pour envahir le royaume des Deux-Siciles.
embarquement des troupes de Garibaldi pour envahir le royaume des Deux-Siciles.
The French army had never lost to Mexico.
The French army had never lost to Mexico. Not once. They'd conquered half the world, crushed European powers, perfected warfare under Napoleon. And on May 5, 1862, they sent 6,000 professional soldiers against a ragtag force of 4,000 Mexican troops—many barefoot, most without proper rifles—defending Puebla. General Ignacio Zaragoza positioned his men on hilltops and waited. The French charged uphill three times in the rain. Three times they retreated. By sunset, Europe's finest military had been stopped by farmers. France would need four more years and 40,000 soldiers to take the city.
Mexicans Defeat France: Battle of Puebla Wins Glory
Mexican forces repelled a larger, better-equipped French army at Puebla, delivering a crucial morale boost that slowed the invaders' advance toward Mexico City despite their eventual defeat. This unexpected victory birthed El Día de la Batalla de Puebla in the state of Puebla and evolved into the widely celebrated Cinco de Mayo across the United States.
Union and Confederate forces collided in the dense, tangled thickets of Virginia, initiating the brutal Overland Camp…
Union and Confederate forces collided in the dense, tangled thickets of Virginia, initiating the brutal Overland Campaign. This engagement forced Ulysses S. Grant to abandon the traditional strategy of retreating after heavy losses, committing the North to a relentless war of attrition that eventually exhausted the South’s ability to sustain its armies.
In Oberstdorf wütet eine Feuersbrunst, die bis zum nächsten Tag dauert.
In Oberstdorf wütet eine Feuersbrunst, die bis zum nächsten Tag dauert. Das Feuer vernichtet zwei Drittel der Gebäude des Ortes.
The Confederate government ended not with a bang in Richmond, but whispered into dissolution in a borrowed bank build…
The Confederate government ended not with a bang in Richmond, but whispered into dissolution in a borrowed bank building in Washington, Georgia. Jefferson Davis had fled south with his cabinet, gold reserves dwindling, army evaporating. On May 5, 1865, they held their last official meeting—just five men left. Secretary of War John Breckinridge formally declared the Confederate States of America dissolved. The republic that claimed to represent eleven states died in a town of barely 3,000 people, nearly a month after Lee's surrender. Four years of war, 620,000 dead, ended in a Georgia hamlet most Southerners couldn't find on a map.
Bei North Bend, Ohio, wird erstmals in den USA ein Eisenbahnzug ausgeraubt.
Bei North Bend, Ohio, wird erstmals in den USA ein Eisenbahnzug ausgeraubt. Die Reno-Brüder erbeuten dabei 13.000 US-Dollar.
The robbers walked away with $15,000 from the Adams Express Company safe—then made a fatal mistake.
The robbers walked away with $15,000 from the Adams Express Company safe—then made a fatal mistake. They hit the train at night, cracked the safe between stations, and disappeared into Ohio farmland before anyone noticed. But John Reno and his brothers couldn't resist spending their newfound wealth around southern Indiana. Pinkerton detectives tracked them through extravagant purchases: horses, land, rounds of drinks at every tavern. Within months, all five gang members were caught. Their success spawned two decades of railway heists across the West. Turns out you can steal from a moving train—hiding the money's harder.
The druggist wanted flowers on every grave, Union and Confederate both.
The druggist wanted flowers on every grave, Union and Confederate both. Henry Welles convinced Waterloo, New York to close its shops on May 5, 1866, and the whole town spent the day decorating cemeteries. Not just the Northern boys. Everyone. Three other towns claim they did it first—Columbus, Carbondale, Boalsburg—but Waterloo got the official nod from Congress a century later. What started as one village trying to stop arguing over which dead soldiers deserved flowers became the day 40 million Americans now spend at barbecues, mostly forgetting why they're off work.
en Chile se crea la comuna de Coquimbo.
en Chile se crea la comuna de Coquimbo.
مقتل المجاهد الجزائري محمد المقراني في ساحة القتال بالقرب من مدينة البويرة.
مقتل المجاهد الجزائري محمد المقراني في ساحة القتال بالقرب من مدينة البويرة.
Sitting Bull Fleeing West: Lakota Seek Safety in Canada
Sitting Bull led his Lakota band across the border into Canada to escape the relentless pursuit of Colonel Nelson Miles's US Army troops. This flight secured a temporary refuge for the resistance, allowing the Lakota people to preserve their community and culture outside direct American military control for several years.
León Favre solicita patente para un nuevo sistema de color en la fotografía.
León Favre solicita patente para un nuevo sistema de color en la fotografía.
Die Uraufführung der Oper Henry VIII von Camille Saint-Saëns findet an der Grand Opéra de Paris statt.
Die Uraufführung der Oper Henry VIII von Camille Saint-Saëns findet an der Grand Opéra de Paris statt.
The governor ordered troops to protect the factories, not the workers.
The governor ordered troops to protect the factories, not the workers. On May 5th, 1886, over 1,500 Milwaukee laborers and their families marched peacefully toward the Bay View Rolling Mills, demanding an eight-hour workday instead of ten or twelve. The Wisconsin National Guard fired directly into the crowd. Seven dead, including a thirteen-year-old boy watching from his yard. Within three years, Wisconsin became one of the first states to pass an eight-hour workday law. Sometimes governments move fastest when they're trying to forget what they authorized.
Wisconsin National Guard troops fired into a crowd of striking laborers in Milwaukee, killing seven people who were d…
Wisconsin National Guard troops fired into a crowd of striking laborers in Milwaukee, killing seven people who were demanding an eight-hour workday. This violence crushed the local movement for shorter hours, yet the tragedy galvanized national labor unions to organize more aggressively for standardized working conditions across the United States.
The academy didn't start in Lima's grand halls but in Francisco García Calderón's private library, twelve men debatin…
The academy didn't start in Lima's grand halls but in Francisco García Calderón's private library, twelve men debating whether Peruvian Spanish was broken Castilian or something worth defending. Their first official act wasn't cataloging indigenous words or protecting literary tradition—it was arguing for three hours about whether "chompa" deserved a place in formal dictionaries. They voted no. Within two decades, the academy would document over 2,000 Quechua-origin words used daily across Peru. Turns out you can't standardize a language when half your country speaks it differently on purpose.
In seiner Enzyklika In plurimis lobt Papst Leo XIII.
In seiner Enzyklika In plurimis lobt Papst Leo XIII. die Abschaffung der Sklaverei in Brasilien und spricht sich für die weltweite Abschaffung aus.
parution du premier numéro du quotidien régional L'Est républicain dans le nord-est de la France.
parution du premier numéro du quotidien régional L'Est républicain dans le nord-est de la France.
Tchaikovsky Condects Carnegie Hall's Grand Opening
Tchaikovsky took the podium to conduct the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 1 at the newly opened Music Hall in New York City, instantly establishing the venue as a world-class cultural hub. This debut performance cemented the hall's reputation, ensuring it would evolve into Carnegie Hall and become the definitive stage for classical music in America for over a century.
In London können die ersten Briefmarken aus Automaten gekauft werden.
In London können die ersten Briefmarken aus Automaten gekauft werden.
Der „Industrial Black Friday“ in den USA löst erhebliche Kursverluste an der New York Stock Exchange aus, die besonde…
Der „Industrial Black Friday“ in den USA löst erhebliche Kursverluste an der New York Stock Exchange aus, die besonders Eisenbahnaktien treffen. Die Wirtschaftskrise trifft in der Folge auch den Silbermarkt und entwickelt sich zur „Silber-Panik“.
le journal américain New York World publie The Yellow Kid premier cartoon en couleur.
le journal américain New York World publie The Yellow Kid premier cartoon en couleur.
Im Düsseldorfer Stadtteil Flingern wird der Turnverein Flingern 1895 gegründet, aus dem später der deutsche Fußballve…
Im Düsseldorfer Stadtteil Flingern wird der Turnverein Flingern 1895 gegründet, aus dem später der deutsche Fußballverein Fortuna Düsseldorf hervorgeht. In Hamburg erfolgt die Gründung des SC Victoria Hamburg, der am 28. Januar 1900 zu den Gründungsmitgliedern des DFB gehört.
Nahe dem Piccadilly Circus entsteht Londons erstes Parkhaus, das sich über sieben Etagen erstreckt.
Nahe dem Piccadilly Circus entsteht Londons erstes Parkhaus, das sich über sieben Etagen erstreckt.
en Murcia se produce un terremoto.
en Murcia se produce un terremoto. Varios edificios se desploman.
en Nueva York se publican denuncias contra el Genocidio filipino perpetrado desde el 4 de febrero de 1899 por el Gobi…
en Nueva York se publican denuncias contra el Genocidio filipino perpetrado desde el 4 de febrero de 1899 por el Gobierno estadounidense. Hacia 1913 los militares estadounidenses habrán asesinado a más de un millón de civiles.
el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino Unido, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, declara que el golfo Pérsico pertenece a …
el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino Unido, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, declara que el golfo Pérsico pertenece a la frontera de la India.
Von Liverpool aus bricht die Carpathia der Cunard Line zu ihrer Jungfernfahrt Richtung Boston auf.
Von Liverpool aus bricht die Carpathia der Cunard Line zu ihrer Jungfernfahrt Richtung Boston auf. 1912 wird sie Überlebende der Titanic an Bord nehmen können.
Twenty-seven batters came to the plate.
Twenty-seven batters came to the plate. Twenty-seven batters sat back down. Cy Young—already 37 years old, already 355 wins deep into a career most figured was winding down—didn't walk a single Athletic. Didn't hit anyone. Didn't throw a wild pitch. The thing is, he'd pitched a no-hitter three years earlier and somehow found a way to make it tighter. Perfect, actually. First one since the pitching mound moved to 60 feet, 6 inches in 1893. Baseball keeps searching for perfection. Young just kept throwing strikes.
en Roma, la visita del presidente francés Émile Loubet al rey italiano Víctor Manuel III provoca el conflicto entre l…
en Roma, la visita del presidente francés Émile Loubet al rey italiano Víctor Manuel III provoca el conflicto entre la curia y el Gobierno francés.
Prosecutors in London secured a murder conviction against the Stratton brothers by presenting a single thumbprint fou…
Prosecutors in London secured a murder conviction against the Stratton brothers by presenting a single thumbprint found on a cash box at the crime scene. This trial transformed criminal investigations by establishing forensic fingerprinting as reliable courtroom evidence, ending the era where eyewitness testimony and circumstantial clues remained the primary tools for identifying killers.
en Santa Fe (Argentina), se crea el Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe, uno de los más importantes equipos del interior …
en Santa Fe (Argentina), se crea el Club Atlético Colón de Santa Fe, uno de los más importantes equipos del interior del país.
Die komische Oper Robins Ende von Eduard Künneke hat ihre Uraufführung am Nationaltheater Mannheim.
Die komische Oper Robins Ende von Eduard Künneke hat ihre Uraufführung am Nationaltheater Mannheim.
se inauguran los Juegos Olímpicos de Estocolmo, oficialmente conocidos como los Juegos de la V Olimpiada.
se inauguran los Juegos Olímpicos de Estocolmo, oficialmente conocidos como los Juegos de la V Olimpiada.
The newspaper's first editor ran it from exile in Vienna because Russia wouldn't let him in.
The newspaper's first editor ran it from exile in Vienna because Russia wouldn't let him in. Stalin, then just a minor Georgian radical, picked the name: Pravda, meaning "truth." The print run was 60,000 copies, sold for two kopeks each, and the Tsarist police shut it down eight times in the first year alone. Each time, they relaunched under a slightly different name—The Northern Pravda, Pravda of Labor, The Way of Truth. By 1917, it was the Bolsheviks' megaphone. A two-kopek newspaper that couldn't stay published became the voice of a one-party state.
en Tortosa (Tarragona) se inaugura el canal del Ebro.
en Tortosa (Tarragona) se inaugura el canal del Ebro.
The sugar companies wrote the constitution.
The sugar companies wrote the constitution. Actually wrote it—American corporations drafted the Dominican Republic's laws in 1905, then watched their investment collapse into civil war a decade later. So 400 Marines landed to "restore order" and protect Wall Street's cane fields. They'd stay eight years. The occupation killed thousands of Dominicans and trained a young guard officer named Rafael Trujillo, who learned counterinsurgency tactics from his American instructors. He'd use them to rule the country as a dictator for thirty-one years. Sometimes the peacekeepers create worse problems than they solve.
le général Estienne engage les premiers chars dans un combat, à Laffaux (Aisne).
le général Estienne engage les premiers chars dans un combat, à Laffaux (Aisne).
Mit der Eroberung Viipuris durch die Weiße Armee endet der Finnische Bürgerkrieg, der am 27.
Mit der Eroberung Viipuris durch die Weiße Armee endet der Finnische Bürgerkrieg, der am 27. Januar begonnen hat. Die finnischen Rotarmisten fliehen nach Petrograd.
The eels gave them away.
The eels gave them away. Bartolomeo Vanzetti sold fish door-to-door in Plymouth. Nicola Sacco trimmed shoe leather in a Stoughton factory. Italian immigrants, anarchists, working men with families. On May 5, 1920, police arrested them for a payroll robbery in South Braintree that left two men dead. The evidence was thin—disputed ballistics, questionable witnesses. But the Red Scare was peaking, and their politics mattered more than their alibis. Seven years of appeals, worldwide protests, a governor's commission. They died in the electric chair anyway. The trial transcript is still being argued over.
Coco Chanel lance ce 5.05 son parfum No 5 et sa collection rue Cambon à Paris.
Coco Chanel lance ce 5.05 son parfum No 5 et sa collection rue Cambon à Paris.
She told the perfumer she wanted a scent that smelled like a woman, not a flower garden.
She told the perfumer she wanted a scent that smelled like a woman, not a flower garden. Ernest Beaux brought her ten samples. Chanel picked number five because she planned to launch on May 5th—the fifth month. Lucky numbers mattered to her. But here's what changed perfume forever: Beaux had accidentally overdosed the aldehydes in that batch, creating a chemical sharpness no fragrance had before. The mistake made it smell expensive, abstract, modern. Within a decade, a bottle sold every thirty seconds. Sometimes the error is the entire point.
la conferencia de Londres lanza un ultimátum a Alemania.
la conferencia de Londres lanza un ultimátum a Alemania.
É fundada oficialmente a Liga da Juventude Comunista da China.
É fundada oficialmente a Liga da Juventude Comunista da China.
la Comisión de Vigilancia Aérea de los aliados abandona Alemania.
la Comisión de Vigilancia Aérea de los aliados abandona Alemania.
Die Petersglocke (auch Dicker Pitter genannt), Glocke 1 des Kölner Domgeläuts, wird in Apolda gegossen.
Die Petersglocke (auch Dicker Pitter genannt), Glocke 1 des Kölner Domgeläuts, wird in Apolda gegossen. Mit rund 24.000 kg Gewicht und 322 cm Durchmesser war sie bis 2016 die größte am geraden Joch schwingend läutende Glocke der Welt. Erschaffen hat die Bronze-Kirchenglocke der Glockengießermeister Heinrich Ulrich (1876–1924).
Scopes on Trial: Evolution vs. Religion in 1925
Tennessee authorities served an arrest warrant on high school teacher John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act, triggering the most publicized courtroom showdown of the 1920s. The ensuing trial pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan and exposed a fault line between science and fundamentalism that still divides American education policy.
O governo da África do Sul oficializa o africâner como língua oficial do país.
O governo da África do Sul oficializa o africâner como língua oficial do país.
South Africa elevated Afrikaans to official status alongside English, dismantling the linguistic dominance of Dutch i…
South Africa elevated Afrikaans to official status alongside English, dismantling the linguistic dominance of Dutch in government affairs. This legislative shift solidified the political power of Afrikaner nationalists, fueling the cultural policies that eventually structured the institutionalized segregation of the apartheid era.
en Chile, el presidente Emiliano Figueroa presenta su dimisión y es sustituido por Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.
en Chile, el presidente Emiliano Figueroa presenta su dimisión y es sustituido por Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.
A massive earthquake leveled the city of Bago and devastated nearby Yangon, claiming up to 7,000 lives in a single day.
A massive earthquake leveled the city of Bago and devastated nearby Yangon, claiming up to 7,000 lives in a single day. This catastrophe forced the British colonial administration to overhaul building codes and urban planning in southern Burma, fundamentally altering how the region approached seismic safety and infrastructure resilience in the decades that followed.
تأسيس جمعية العلماء المسلمين الجزائريين.
تأسيس جمعية العلماء المسلمين الجزائريين.
Japan und China schließen unter Vermittlung des Völkerbundes einen Waffenstillstand, der die seit dem 28.
Japan und China schließen unter Vermittlung des Völkerbundes einen Waffenstillstand, der die seit dem 28. Januar andauernde Schlacht um Shanghai beendet.
en los Laboratorios Bell, situados en la localidad estadounidense de Holmdel (Nueva Jersey), Karl Jansky descubre ond…
en los Laboratorios Bell, situados en la localidad estadounidense de Holmdel (Nueva Jersey), Karl Jansky descubre ondas de radio provenientes del centro de nuestra galaxia (la Vía Láctea). Este descubrimiento se considera el inicio de la radioastronomía.
The first Three Stooges short wasn't even a Stooges film.
The first Three Stooges short wasn't even a Stooges film. Woman Haters featured Moe, Larry, and Curly—but they weren't the Stooges yet, just contract players at Columbia Pictures. The whole thing was shot in rhyming dialogue. Every single line. "I hate all women, short and tall" wasn't exactly Shakespeare. Director Archie Gottler treated it as a musical without music, an experiment nobody asked for. Columbia buried it fast. But Harry Cohn kept the trio on payroll anyway, something about the way Moe's slaps echoed. Two hundred more shorts followed. The accident worked.
en España, Alejandro Lerroux forma su quinto Gobierno.
en España, Alejandro Lerroux forma su quinto Gobierno. La CEDA obtiene cinco carteras y Gil-Robles es nombrado ministro de la Guerra.
Italian forces seized Addis Ababa, forcing Emperor Haile Selassie into exile and ending Ethiopian independence.
Italian forces seized Addis Ababa, forcing Emperor Haile Selassie into exile and ending Ethiopian independence. This occupation exposed the impotence of the League of Nations, which failed to impose meaningful sanctions against Mussolini, emboldening fascist regimes across Europe to pursue further territorial aggression in the years leading to World War II.
en Caspe (Zaragoza) comienzan las tareas de un congreso pro-estatuto aragonés.
en Caspe (Zaragoza) comienzan las tareas de un congreso pro-estatuto aragonés.
se celebra la primera etapa de la Vuelta Ciclista a España.
se celebra la primera etapa de la Vuelta Ciclista a España.
en China entra en vigor la nueva constitución.
en China entra en vigor la nueva constitución.
en Alicante es fusilado el catedrático Eliseo Gómez Serrano.
en Alicante es fusilado el catedrático Eliseo Gómez Serrano.
King Haakon VII and his cabinet established a government-in-exile in London after fleeing the Nazi occupation of Norway.
King Haakon VII and his cabinet established a government-in-exile in London after fleeing the Nazi occupation of Norway. By maintaining this legal authority abroad, they secured control over the Norwegian merchant fleet, which provided the Allies with vital shipping capacity throughout the remainder of the war.
en Londres se forma un Gobierno noruego en el exilio.
en Londres se forma un Gobierno noruego en el exilio.
Twenty-five Norwegian soldiers held Hegra Fortress for twenty-five days after their own government had surrendered.
Twenty-five Norwegian soldiers held Hegra Fortress for twenty-five days after their own government had surrendered. They were farmers mostly, clerks, fishermen who'd been drafted weeks earlier. The Germans offered them honorable terms six times. They refused. At Vinjesvingen, another stubborn squad did the same. When they finally walked out on May 5th, 1940, Wehrmacht officers lined up and saluted them—rare tribute from an enemy who'd expected Norway to fall in days, not weeks. Small garrisons had bought time Britain desperately needed. Amateurs had embarrassed professionals.
Emperor Haile Selassie reclaimed his throne in Addis Ababa five years after fleeing the Italian occupation.
Emperor Haile Selassie reclaimed his throne in Addis Ababa five years after fleeing the Italian occupation. His return ended Mussolini’s colonial ambitions in East Africa and restored Ethiopia as the first sovereign nation liberated from Axis control during World War II. Ethiopians continue to observe this date as Liberation Day to honor the restoration of their independence.
débarquement anglais à Diego-Suarez.
débarquement anglais à Diego-Suarez.
In der Schlacht um Cholm an der deutsch-sowjetischen Front führt die Wehrmacht einen erfolgreichen Entsatzangriff dur…
In der Schlacht um Cholm an der deutsch-sowjetischen Front führt die Wehrmacht einen erfolgreichen Entsatzangriff durch und stellt 105 Tage nach deren Einkesselung wieder die Verbindung zu den deutschen Truppen in der Stadt her.
en Europa, el general Williams Key asume el mando estadounidense.
en Europa, el general Williams Key asume el mando estadounidense.
en India, Gandhi es liberado tras 21 meses de arresto.
en India, Gandhi es liberado tras 21 meses de arresto.
The Wehrmacht needed a scapegoat after Greek resistance fighters ambushed their convoy near Kleisoura.
The Wehrmacht needed a scapegoat after Greek resistance fighters ambushed their convoy near Kleisoura. They found 216 of them. Men, women, children—the whole village dragged from homes on April 5, 1944. The officer in charge, Karl Schümers, methodically divided them into groups. Firing squads worked for three hours. Witnesses reported the soldiers broke for lunch between executions. And Kleisoura wasn't unique—just one of dozens of Greek villages erased that spring as German forces retreated through the Balkans. Most of the men who pulled those triggers went home to Bavaria and never faced trial.
libération du camp de Mauthausen, dernier camp de concentration à être libéré ;
libération du camp de Mauthausen, dernier camp de concentration à être libéré ;
The SS held French prime ministers and tennis stars prisoner in a medieval Austrian castle, and when the war's end ma…
The SS held French prime ministers and tennis stars prisoner in a medieval Austrian castle, and when the war's end made their guards nervous, desperate inmates called the Americans for help. Wehrmacht Major Josef Gangl decided his fight was with the Nazis now, not the Allies. On May 5th, 1945, American tank crews and German soldiers fought together against an SS attack, protecting their former enemies behind castle walls. Gangl died in the firefight. It's the only time in the war GIs and Wehrmacht shared a foxhole—and it happened after Hitler was already dead.
The Germans wanted separate surrender ceremonies—one surrender for the Netherlands, another for Denmark.
The Germans wanted separate surrender ceremonies—one surrender for the Netherlands, another for Denmark. The Allies refused. May 5th, 1945: one signature for both countries at Wageningen. Five years of occupation ended with a British general's pen stroke. But here's what mattered to the 4.5 million Dutch facing starvation that spring—Canadian bombers had been dropping food, not explosives, for two weeks already under a truce. Operation Manna. By the time the surrender came, grateful civilians had already spelled "THANK YOU" in tulips across their fields. Liberation was formality; survival was mercy.
The Germans were already losing when Prague's radio operators cut off their own broadcast mid-sentence and started ca…
The Germans were already losing when Prague's radio operators cut off their own broadcast mid-sentence and started calling for help in Czech. May 5th, 1945. Three days before V-E Day. Czech resistance fighters built over 1,600 barricades from overturned trams, cobblestones, anything they could move. The SS sent in tanks anyway. Nearly 1,700 Czechs died in street fighting that didn't need to happen—Berlin had already fallen, Hitler was dead. But Prague refused to wait for permission to liberate itself. Sometimes freedom can't wait three more days.
The SS guards were three days gone when American troops arrived at Mauthausen.
The SS guards were three days gone when American troops arrived at Mauthausen. They'd left 110,000 prisoners behind—some too weak to walk, others in the notorious "Stairs of Death" quarry where men once carried granite blocks until they dropped. Captain J.D. Pletcher's 11th Armored Division found them on May 5, 1945: every nationality Hitler wanted erased, somehow still breathing. Within hours, soldiers were sharing rations they didn't have enough of, trying to save people whose bodies couldn't handle food anymore. Three thousand died after liberation. From freedom.
The last wolf pack commander had been a Nazi for exactly twenty-three days.
The last wolf pack commander had been a Nazi for exactly twenty-three days. Karl Dönitz joined the party in 1932, fourteen years after joining the navy. On May 4, 1945, he sent the order: all U-boats surface, stand down, return home. Forty thousand submariners had left German ports during the war. Thirty thousand never came back. The ones who did emerge that spring—blinking in daylight, hatches opening after weeks underwater—surrendered to enemies who'd been hunting them with everything from depth charges to breaking their supposedly unbreakable codes. The hunters had won by reading every message.
The only people killed on the American mainland by enemy action during World War II died on a Sunday school picnic.
The only people killed on the American mainland by enemy action during World War II died on a Sunday school picnic. Elsie Mitchell, five months pregnant, and five children were pulling a strange balloon from the woods near Bly, Oregon when it exploded. They'd found one of nine thousand hydrogen-filled bombs Japan had launched across the Pacific, carried by jet stream winds nobody knew existed yet. The military hushed it up immediately—if the Japanese learned their $200 paper weapons could reach America, they'd send more. The pastor's wife and those kids kept a secret they never knew.
en Praga se produce un levantamiento antifascista que acelera el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
en Praga se produce un levantamiento antifascista que acelera el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
The judges couldn't agree on a single language.
The judges couldn't agree on a single language. Proceedings at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal operated simultaneously in English and Japanese, with translators scrambling to keep up during testimony that would span 417 days. Twenty-eight defendants sat in the dock—generals, prime ministers, diplomats—but Emperor Hirohito wasn't among them. MacArthur decided Japan needed its emperor to rebuild. Seven men would hang. Sixteen got life sentences. And the absence of one name in that courtroom shaped Japan's postwar identity more than any verdict could.
un référendum rejette le premier projet de Constitution pour la IVe République, proposant un monocaméralisme.
un référendum rejette le premier projet de Constitution pour la IVe République, proposant un monocaméralisme.
Ten countries showed up to sign a treaty nobody thought would work—Germany wasn't even allowed to join yet.
Ten countries showed up to sign a treaty nobody thought would work—Germany wasn't even allowed to join yet. The Treaty of London created the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the first attempt to get European nations to actually cooperate after they'd spent centuries invading each other. Started with human rights courts and shared values instead of armies and borders. Within two decades they'd designated May 5 as Europe Day, turning a signature ceremony into an annual reminder. The real surprise? They picked cooperation over conquest and it stuck.
He was born in Massachusetts, spoke better English than Thai, and spent his first eighteen years studying in Switzerland.
He was born in Massachusetts, spoke better English than Thai, and spent his first eighteen years studying in Switzerland. Now Bhumibol Adulyadej was being crowned king of a country he barely knew. His older brother had died from a gunshot wound just four years earlier—circumstances still murky, questions still whispered. The crown wasn't meant for him. But he'd reign for seventy years, the longest-serving monarch in Thai history, steering the nation through seventeen coups and twenty-seven prime ministers. The foreigner became the father of the nation.
The treaty made West Germany sovereign again, but Konrad Adenauer had pushed for one more thing: the right to rearm.
The treaty made West Germany sovereign again, but Konrad Adenauer had pushed for one more thing: the right to rearm. Ten years after Nazi defeat, German factories could build tanks again. France nearly walked away from the whole deal over it. But the Americans wanted a buffer against the Soviets, and Britain wanted France to stop vetoing. So on May 5, 1955, West Germany got its army back. The country that started two world wars in forty years now had the largest NATO force in Europe.
Am 46th Street Theatre in New York City wird das Musical Damn Yankees von Richard Adler und Jerry Ross uraufgeführt.
Am 46th Street Theatre in New York City wird das Musical Damn Yankees von Richard Adler und Jerry Ross uraufgeführt.
The defeated power got its power back in exactly ten years.
The defeated power got its power back in exactly ten years. West Germany's sovereignty came with a catch nobody saw coming: instant rearmament. Konrad Adenauer signed the papers on May 5, 1955, and by year's end, the Bundeswehr was recruiting the same generals who'd fought for Hitler. The Allies demanded it. The Soviet Union, terrified of German tanks again, formed the Warsaw Pact eight days later. And just like that, the nation everyone feared became the one everyone needed. The line between enemy and ally lasted one decade.
la República Federal de Alemania recupera la plena soberanía.
la República Federal de Alemania recupera la plena soberanía.
en Túnez, el Partido Neo-Destour consigue la victoria en las elecciones.
en Túnez, el Partido Neo-Destour consigue la victoria en las elecciones.
el vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, Richard Nixon, visita Bolivia.
el vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, Richard Nixon, visita Bolivia.
en la isla Runit del atolón Eniwetak (islas Marshall, en medio del océano Pacífico), Estados Unidos hace explotar su …
en la isla Runit del atolón Eniwetak (islas Marshall, en medio del océano Pacífico), Estados Unidos hace explotar su bomba atómica Cactus, de 18 kt. El cráter más tarde se cubrirá de tierra y escombros contaminados y se cubrirá con una cúpula de concreto, llamada «Domo de la Cactus». Es la segunda de las 35 bombas de la operación Hardtack I, y la bomba n.º 123 de las 1054 que Estados Unidos detonó entre 1945 y 1992.
Pier Paolo Pasolini publica su novela Una vida violenta.
Pier Paolo Pasolini publica su novela Una vida violenta.
Alan Shepard had to pee.
Alan Shepard had to pee. Not just needed to—he'd been strapped in the capsule for four hours during delays, and mission control kept saying wait. Finally he went in his suit. Fifteen minutes later, Freedom 7 launched. The flight lasted exactly 15 minutes and 22 seconds. Suborbital, not even reaching orbit like Yuri Gagarin had done three weeks earlier. But America had a spaceman now. And Shepard's urine-soaked long johns became the reason NASA engineers designed the waste management systems that got us to the Moon eight years later.
They picked the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, but here's what's strange: most Europeans couldn't tell you w…
They picked the anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, but here's what's strange: most Europeans couldn't tell you what Europe Day is. The Council of Europe chose May 5 in 1964, hoping to unite a continent still raw from two world wars. The European Union later picked May 9 for *their* Europe Day, celebrating the same Schuman speech. Now the continent has two official Europe Days, neither widely celebrated. Turns out you can't legislate unity into existence, even with the perfect historical date.
en el aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte (Tenerife) se estrella un avión y mueren 32 personas
en el aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte (Tenerife) se estrella un avión y mueren 32 personas
Als erste deutsche Mannschaft gewinnt Borussia Dortmund einen Fußball-Europapokal.
Als erste deutsche Mannschaft gewinnt Borussia Dortmund einen Fußball-Europapokal. Das Team gewinnt in Glasgow mit 2:1 n. V. gegen den FC Liverpool und sichert sich so den Europapokal der Pokalsieger. Das Siegtor erzielt Reinhard Libuda.
la OEA concede al violonchelista español Pau Casals el título de Ciudadano de Honor de las Américas.
la OEA concede al violonchelista español Pau Casals el título de Ciudadano de Honor de las Américas.
Nació el personaje ficticio de Friends, Rachel Green.
Nació el personaje ficticio de Friends, Rachel Green.
The pilot radioed he was descending through clouds at 3,000 feet.
The pilot radioed he was descending through clouds at 3,000 feet. Mount Longa rises to 3,600. DC-8 Flight 112 from Rome to Palermo had circled once already—visibility near zero that January evening in 1972. Controllers never saw it on radar. All 115 people aboard died on impact, the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italian history. Investigators found the altimeter worked perfectly. The approach chart showed the mountain clearly. But someone had set the wrong altitude, and five seconds of fog erased the difference between numbers on a dial and solid rock.
The jockey felt the colt accelerate through the final turn at Churchill Downs like he was shot from a cannon—each qua…
The jockey felt the colt accelerate through the final turn at Churchill Downs like he was shot from a cannon—each quarter-mile faster than the last. Impossible. Horses tire. They don't speed up. But Secretariat ran the Kentucky Derby's final quarter in 23 seconds flat, crossing the wire in 1:59 2/5. Fifty years later, no three-year-old has broken two minutes. Not American Pharoah. Not Justify. Sports scientists still study the footage, trying to understand how 1,200 pounds of muscle and bone defied basic physics. Some records get broken. This one just gets older.
en la primera vuelta de las elecciones francesas, François Mitterrand obtiene el 42% de los votos y Valéry Giscard d'…
en la primera vuelta de las elecciones francesas, François Mitterrand obtiene el 42% de los votos y Valéry Giscard d'Estaing el 32,9%.
se da a conocer la posibilidad de destruir las piedras del riñón por medio de ondas de choque gracias a un aparato cr…
se da a conocer la posibilidad de destruir las piedras del riñón por medio de ondas de choque gracias a un aparato creado por la empresa Dornier (Véase litiasis).
se funda Club de Deportes Cobresal, equipo profesional del fútbol chileno.
se funda Club de Deportes Cobresal, equipo profesional del fútbol chileno.
en Grecia, Constantinos Karamanlís es elegido presidente.
en Grecia, Constantinos Karamanlís es elegido presidente.
The SAS blew in the windows while 22 million Britons watched on live television—the BBC had interrupted the evening n…
The SAS blew in the windows while 22 million Britons watched on live television—the BBC had interrupted the evening news to show smoke pouring from the Iranian embassy's second floor. The assault lasted seventeen minutes. Five gunmen dead, one captured. All but one of the twenty-six hostages walked out alive. The SAS had existed since World War II, mostly in shadow. After Operation Nimrod, recruitment applications tripled. And counterterrorism units worldwide started studying those seventeen minutes like scripture, frame by frame, learning to turn a siege into a spectacle of precision.
The man who fled Greece in 1974 after a military junta collapsed returned six years later to lead it.
The man who fled Greece in 1974 after a military junta collapsed returned six years later to lead it. Constantine Karamanlis had already served as Prime Minister for eleven years before exile, but now Greeks elected him to something different: their first civilian president in seven years of restored democracy. He won with 183 votes out of 300 in Parliament on May 5, 1980. The office held less power than his old job. But symbols matter when you're trying to prove democracy can stick after tanks nearly destroyed it.
Bobby Sands died in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of refusing food, ending his protest for political st…
Bobby Sands died in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of refusing food, ending his protest for political status. His death triggered a surge in support for the republican movement, ultimately forcing the British government to concede to several prisoner demands and accelerating the transition of Sinn Féin into a mainstream electoral force.
en la Cuenca del Plata, entra en funcionamiento la Represa de Itaipú.
en la Cuenca del Plata, entra en funcionamiento la Represa de Itaipú.
SS graves lay among the dead at Bitburg military cemetery—forty-nine Waffen-SS soldiers buried alongside Wehrmacht tr…
SS graves lay among the dead at Bitburg military cemetery—forty-nine Waffen-SS soldiers buried alongside Wehrmacht troops. Reagan went anyway. His advance team knew. Kohl had asked personally, and the president honored the commitment despite fury from veterans groups and Holocaust survivors. At Bergen-Belsen hours earlier, he'd stood where Anne Frank died and called the Holocaust "an unfathomable act." Then Bitburg: eight minutes, a wreath, no speech. The trip cost him approval ratings for months. But Kohl's government held firm in NATO, and the Pershings stayed deployed in Germany. Sometimes alliance means showing up when it costs you.
en Venecia el Ayuntamiento decide limitar el número de turistas que entran en la ciudad, a causa de la degradación de…
en Venecia el Ayuntamiento decide limitar el número de turistas que entran en la ciudad, a causa de la degradación del medio urbano.
Oliver North sat before Congress in his Marine uniform with seventeen medals, right hand raised, and told America he'…
Oliver North sat before Congress in his Marine uniform with seventeen medals, right hand raised, and told America he'd shredded so many documents about illegal weapons sales that his secretary had to buy a new shredder. The old one couldn't handle the volume. For two weeks in summer 1987, ninety-five million Americans watched the hearings—selling missiles to Iran, funneling profits to Nicaraguan rebels, all from the White House basement. North became a folk hero to half the country, a criminal to the other half. Same testimony, same uniform, completely different trial.
Les trois otages français du Liban Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Marcel Carton et Marcel Fontaine, libérés la veille à Beyrout…
Les trois otages français du Liban Jean-Paul Kauffmann, Marcel Carton et Marcel Fontaine, libérés la veille à Beyrouth après trois ans de captivité, arrivent à l’aéroport de Villacoublay.
entre les deux tours de l'élection présidentielle française, l'opération « Victor » qui met fin à la prise d'otage de…
entre les deux tours de l'élection présidentielle française, l'opération « Victor » qui met fin à la prise d'otage de gendarmes sur l'île d'Ouvéa en Nouvelle-Calédonie se solde par la mort de 19 indépendantistes et de deux militaires.
en la Ciudad de México se funda el Partido de la Revolución Democrática.
en la Ciudad de México se funda el Partido de la Revolución Democrática.
en Irak realizan un atentado contra el presidente Sadam Huseín, en el que muere su ministro de Defensa, Adnan Jairall…
en Irak realizan un atentado contra el presidente Sadam Huseín, en el que muere su ministro de Defensa, Adnan Jairallah Talfah.
Der aufsehenerregende Memminger Prozess gegen den Frauenarzt Horst Theißen vor dem Landgericht Memmingen endet in ers…
Der aufsehenerregende Memminger Prozess gegen den Frauenarzt Horst Theißen vor dem Landgericht Memmingen endet in erster Instanz mit einem Schuldspruch wegen mehrfachen Schwangerschaftsabbruchs.
en Zagreb, la canción Insieme 1992, del italiano Toto Cutugno resulta vencedora en la 35.ª edición de Eurovisión.
en Zagreb, la canción Insieme 1992, del italiano Toto Cutugno resulta vencedora en la 35.ª edición de Eurovisión.
In Bonn beginnt die erste Runde der Zwei-plus-Vier-Gespräche zwischen der BRD, der DDR und den vier Siegermächten Fra…
In Bonn beginnt die erste Runde der Zwei-plus-Vier-Gespräche zwischen der BRD, der DDR und den vier Siegermächten Frankreich, Großbritannien, der Sowjetunion und den Vereinigten Staaten, die am Ende zur Deutschen Wiedervereinigung führen wird.
Das musikalische Drama Das verratene Meer von Hans Werner Henze mit dem Libretto von Hans-Ulrich Treichel nach dem Ro…
Das musikalische Drama Das verratene Meer von Hans Werner Henze mit dem Libretto von Hans-Ulrich Treichel nach dem Roman Gogo no Eiko von Mishima Yukio wird an der Deutschen Oper Berlin uraufgeführt.
In einem AIDS-Hospiz in Columbus, Ohio nimmt Therese Frare das Foto David Kirby’s Final Moments auf, das zwei Jahre s…
In einem AIDS-Hospiz in Columbus, Ohio nimmt Therese Frare das Foto David Kirby’s Final Moments auf, das zwei Jahre später in einer Kampagne der Modefirma Benetton große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren wird.
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, président de Côte d'Ivoire accepte l'instauration du multipartisme, après trente années de rè…
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, président de Côte d'Ivoire accepte l'instauration du multipartisme, après trente années de règne sur le pays. 14 partis politiques sont légalisés.
The rookie cop who shot Daniel Gomez didn't speak Spanish.
The rookie cop who shot Daniel Gomez didn't speak Spanish. Neither did the other officers who responded to the domestic dispute call that Sunday evening in Mt. Pleasant. Gomez, drunk and wielding a knife according to police, took a bullet to the chest. Within hours, a neighborhood already simmering over aggressive policing erupted. Three nights of burning cars and shattered windows followed. The city's Latino community, mostly Salvadoran immigrants who'd fled one civil war, found themselves tear-gassed in another. Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon created a Latino Civil Rights Task Force afterward. It never met.
en Avellaneda (provincia de Buenos Aires) juega su último partido de fútbol Ricardo Enrique Bochini, jugador emblemát…
en Avellaneda (provincia de Buenos Aires) juega su último partido de fútbol Ricardo Enrique Bochini, jugador emblemático del Club Atlético Independiente.
en Corse, l'effondrement d'une tribune du stade Furiani à Bastia fait 18 morts, et plus de 2 300 blessés, quelques mi…
en Corse, l'effondrement d'une tribune du stade Furiani à Bastia fait 18 morts, et plus de 2 300 blessés, quelques minutes avant le coup d'envoi de la demi-finale de la Coupe de France de football Bastia-Marseille.
Der Europäische Protesttag zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderung findet erstmals statt.
Der Europäische Protesttag zur Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderung findet erstmals statt.
en Crimea, el Parlamento proclama la independencia.
en Crimea, el Parlamento proclama la independencia.
A college student got a C+ on a paper about constitutional amendments in 1982, then spent the next decade getting a t…
A college student got a C+ on a paper about constitutional amendments in 1982, then spent the next decade getting a two-hundred-year-old proposal ratified state by state. Gregory Watson noticed James Madison's forgotten 1789 amendment about congressional pay raises had no deadline. He badgered state legislators by mail. Thirty-eight states eventually said yes. Alabama made it official on May 7, 1992—the longest ratification in American history, 202 years, 7 months, 12 days. Watson's professor never changed his grade. But Congress now can't vote itself a raise that takes effect before the next election.
Four lashes with a half-inch rattan cane, applied to the bare buttocks of an 18-year-old American spray-painting cars…
Four lashes with a half-inch rattan cane, applied to the bare buttocks of an 18-year-old American spray-painting cars in Singapore. Michael Fay's sentence sparked a diplomatic crisis—President Clinton personally requested clemency, calling it extreme for vandalism. Singapore's government reduced it from six strokes to four but refused to cancel it entirely. The punishment happened anyway on May 5, 1994. Fay later said it wasn't that painful. But American parents suddenly knew Singapore's name, and "caning" entered dinner table debates about whether American justice had gone too soft.
The ceasefire talks happened in a Kyrgyz capital most diplomats couldn't find on a map.
The ceasefire talks happened in a Kyrgyz capital most diplomats couldn't find on a map. Bishkek Protocol, signed May 5, 1994, didn't end the Nagorno-Karabakh war—it just stopped the shooting. Thirty thousand already dead. A million displaced. Armenian forces controlled not just Karabakh but seven surrounding Azerbaijani districts. The Protocol froze everything in place: the territory, the refugees, the hatred. No peace treaty. No recognition. Just silence. And that silence lasted twenty-six years, until Azerbaijan decided frozen conflicts eventually thaw.
Der Londoner Filmproduzent Ray Santilli veröffentlicht den so genannten Santilli-Film, der die angebliche Autopsie ei…
Der Londoner Filmproduzent Ray Santilli veröffentlicht den so genannten Santilli-Film, der die angebliche Autopsie eines Außerirdischen des Roswell-Zwischenfalls zeigt, und löst damit eine breite Debatte um Außerirdische aus. Jahre später entpuppt sich der Film als Phantasieprodukt.
José María Aznar jura ante el rey Juan Carlos como presidente español.
José María Aznar jura ante el rey Juan Carlos como presidente español.
en Taba comienza la apertura de la tercera y última fase del proceso de paz entre Israel y la OLP.
en Taba comienza la apertura de la tercera y última fase del proceso de paz entre Israel y la OLP.
en Libia, Manuel Fraga se declara en contra del aislamiento y embargo de Gaddafi.
en Libia, Manuel Fraga se declara en contra del aislamiento y embargo de Gaddafi.
Indonesien und die ehemalige Kolonialmacht Portugal schließen in New York ein Abkommen über die friedliche Lösung des…
Indonesien und die ehemalige Kolonialmacht Portugal schließen in New York ein Abkommen über die friedliche Lösung des Konflikts um Osttimor. Danach soll im Herbst ein Referendum über die Unabhängigkeit des Landes abgehalten werden.
Amnesty International révèle que des centaines de personnes opposantes au régime ont été exécutées durant les électio…
Amnesty International révèle que des centaines de personnes opposantes au régime ont été exécutées durant les élections présidentielles du Togo de 1998.
l'ex-préfet français Bernard Bonnet est mis en examen et écroué, dans l'affaire des paillotes Chez Francis.
l'ex-préfet français Bernard Bonnet est mis en examen et écroué, dans l'affaire des paillotes Chez Francis.
los primeros ministros del Reino Unido (Tony Blair) e Irlanda (Bertie Ahern) anuncian un plan para restablecer las in…
los primeros ministros del Reino Unido (Tony Blair) e Irlanda (Bertie Ahern) anuncian un plan para restablecer las instituciones autonómicas de Irlanda del Norte el 22 de mayo de 2000, fecha límite para que el IRA entregue las armas.
no ocurre el cataclísmico deslizamiento de la capa de hielo que cubre la Antártida, profetizado en 1997 por el escrit…
no ocurre el cataclísmico deslizamiento de la capa de hielo que cubre la Antártida, profetizado en 1997 por el escritor estadounidense Richard Noone, que sería causado por el alineamiento planetario, y que propiciarían un deslizamiento de la corteza terrestre.
Se estrena en cines la película Gladiator, de Ridley Scott, protagonizada por Russell Crowe y Joaquin Phoenix
Se estrena en cines la película Gladiator, de Ridley Scott, protagonizada por Russell Crowe y Joaquin Phoenix
en Egipto, el ministro de Cultura anuncia el descubrimiento en la región de Guiza (oeste de El Cairo) de una nueva pi…
en Egipto, el ministro de Cultura anuncia el descubrimiento en la región de Guiza (oeste de El Cairo) de una nueva pirámide de la IV dinastía faraónica.
en el Circuito de Jerez, el piloto español Fonsi Nieto logra la victoria en la categoría de 250 cc en el GP de España.
en el Circuito de Jerez, el piloto español Fonsi Nieto logra la victoria en la categoría de 250 cc en el GP de España.
en Cuba, el Gobierno revolucionario libera al disidente Vladimiro Roca, tras cinco años de privación de libertad.
en Cuba, el Gobierno revolucionario libera al disidente Vladimiro Roca, tras cinco años de privación de libertad.
la Juventus de Turín gana su scudetto número 26 en la última jornada tras vencer al Udinese Calcio y caer el Inter de…
la Juventus de Turín gana su scudetto número 26 en la última jornada tras vencer al Udinese Calcio y caer el Inter de Milán derrotado ante la Società Sportiva Lazio.
En Colombia, el gobernador del departamento de Antioquia, Guillermo Gaviria Correa, el exministro de defensa, Gilbert…
En Colombia, el gobernador del departamento de Antioquia, Guillermo Gaviria Correa, el exministro de defensa, Gilberto Echeverri Mejía, y ocho militares, todos ellos retenidos por el Frente 34 de las FARC, son asesinados por guerrilleros de este grupo subversivo cuando se adelantada un operativo por parte del ejército que pretendía el rescate de los rehenes. Los hechos se presentaron en inmediaciones del municipio de Urrao, suroeste del departamento de Antioquia.
Pablo Picassos 1905 entstandenes Bild Junge mit Pfeife wechselt für 104,2 Millionen US-Dollar bei einer Auktion den B…
Pablo Picassos 1905 entstandenes Bild Junge mit Pfeife wechselt für 104,2 Millionen US-Dollar bei einer Auktion den Besitzer. Es gehört damit zu den teuersten Gemälden der Welt.
la revista científica Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) publica el tratamiento de un niño que padece…
la revista científica Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) publica el tratamiento de un niño que padece anemia de Diamond-Blackfan, una enfermedad de la sangre, a partir de células obtenidas del cordón umbilical de su hermano recién nacido.
en París se crea la Organización Mundial de Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales (CGLU), con sede en Barcelona.
en París se crea la Organización Mundial de Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales (CGLU), con sede en Barcelona.
el poeta argentino Juan Gelman obtiene el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana por toda su trayectoria.
el poeta argentino Juan Gelman obtiene el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana por toda su trayectoria.
la multinacional IBM elige Madrid como sede para el sur de Europa.
la multinacional IBM elige Madrid como sede para el sur de Europa.
Labour won but nobody cheered.
Labour won but nobody cheered. Tony Blair took his third consecutive victory in 2005 with just 35.2% of the vote—the lowest share for a governing party in British history. Iraq haunted every doorstep. His majority collapsed from 167 seats to 66. Michael Howard's Conservatives actually gained votes but still lost. Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrats surged to 62 seats on an anti-war platform. Blair knew immediately: he'd promised Gordon Brown this would be his last campaign. The voters hadn't rejected Labour. They'd rejected him.
científicos estadounidenses obtienen óvulos a partir de células madre adultas.
científicos estadounidenses obtienen óvulos a partir de células madre adultas.
En Géorgie, mutinerie d'un bataillon de chars.
En Géorgie, mutinerie d'un bataillon de chars.
premier vol du Falcon 7X de Dassault Aviation, premier avion d'affaires à commandes de vol électriques.
premier vol du Falcon 7X de Dassault Aviation, premier avion d'affaires à commandes de vol électriques.
The peace deal signed in Abuja, Nigeria on May 5th covered rebels in Darfur but left out two major factions who refus…
The peace deal signed in Abuja, Nigeria on May 5th covered rebels in Darfur but left out two major factions who refused to sign. Within weeks, fighting actually intensified. The Sudan Liberation Army splintered into a dozen competing groups, each claiming to represent the true liberation movement. What was supposed to end a conflict that had killed 200,000 people instead fragmented the opposition so badly that peacekeepers couldn't figure out who they were negotiating with anymore. One agreement, more chaos.
la Guardia Civil desmantela una red internacional que se dedicaba al expolio de restos arqueológicos submarinos en Es…
la Guardia Civil desmantela una red internacional que se dedicaba al expolio de restos arqueológicos submarinos en España.
Die Innenministerkonferenz einigt sich auf ein gemeinsames System zur Einbürgerung in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Die Innenministerkonferenz einigt sich auf ein gemeinsames System zur Einbürgerung in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
en Madrid, la policía desarticula una red de clínicas médicas ilegales para ciudadanos chinos y detiene a varios fals…
en Madrid, la policía desarticula una red de clínicas médicas ilegales para ciudadanos chinos y detiene a varios falsos médicos.
se conmemora el Día Internacional de la Lucha por la Liberación de la Marihuana.
se conmemora el Día Internacional de la Lucha por la Liberación de la Marihuana. Se lleva a cabo en unas 232 ciudades alrededor de todo el mundo, 22 en América Latina.
Kenya Airways Flight 507 disintegrated into a mangrove swamp shortly after takeoff from Douala, Cameroon, killing all…
Kenya Airways Flight 507 disintegrated into a mangrove swamp shortly after takeoff from Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 people on board. Investigators later identified pilot disorientation and a failure to monitor flight instruments as the primary causes, forcing African aviation authorities to overhaul pilot training protocols and cockpit resource management standards across the continent.
The Boeing 737 lifted off into a thunderstorm at 12:05 AM, then banked hard right instead of left.
The Boeing 737 lifted off into a thunderstorm at 12:05 AM, then banked hard right instead of left. Flight 507's pilots, disoriented in total darkness and heavy rain, didn't realize they were upside down until impact. The wreckage wasn't found for three days—scattered across the Mbanga Pongo swamp, nine kilometers from the runway. All 114 dead included nine crew and passengers from seventeen countries. Cameroon grounded Kenya Airways flights immediately. The black box revealed something chilling: in modern aviation, you can still fly a perfectly functioning aircraft straight into the ground without knowing it.
en Perú, luego de 16 años de ausencia, Oechsle abrió nuevamente sus puertas en la ciudad de Huancayo.
en Perú, luego de 16 años de ausencia, Oechsle abrió nuevamente sus puertas en la ciudad de Huancayo.
PopCap Games lanza el videojuego tower-defense, Plantas contra Zombis.
PopCap Games lanza el videojuego tower-defense, Plantas contra Zombis.
The petrol bombs started flying on May 5th when three bank employees—trapped inside a Marfin Bank branch that protest…
The petrol bombs started flying on May 5th when three bank employees—trapped inside a Marfin Bank branch that protesters firebombed—burned to death. One was four months pregnant. Greece's streets had seen protests before, but not like this: over 100,000 people in Athens alone, pension cuts of 30% driving taxi drivers and teachers into the same crowds as anarchists. The EU and IMF demanded their €110 billion loan come with strings attached. And those strings strangled the middle class first. Democracy invented here, they said. Now we're being sold.
Supremo Tribunal Federal do Brasil decide que casais homossexuais também podem firmar contratos de união estável assi…
Supremo Tribunal Federal do Brasil decide que casais homossexuais também podem firmar contratos de união estável assim como casais heterossexuais.
In einem Referendum im Vereinigten Königreich sprechen sich etwa zwei Drittel der Abstimmenden gegen eine Reform des …
In einem Referendum im Vereinigten Königreich sprechen sich etwa zwei Drittel der Abstimmenden gegen eine Reform des Wahlrechtes zum britischen Unterhaus aus.
1re demi-finale de l'Concours Eurovision des jeunes musiciens.
1re demi-finale de l'Concours Eurovision des jeunes musiciens.
massacre de Gamboru Ngala, pendant l'insurrection de Boko Haram.
massacre de Gamboru Ngala, pendant l'insurrection de Boko Haram.
démission d’Alenka Bratušek, première femme présidente du gouvernement slovène, au pouvoir depuis mars 2013.
démission d’Alenka Bratušek, première femme présidente du gouvernement slovène, au pouvoir depuis mars 2013.
le travailliste Sadiq Khan, fils d'immigrés pakistanais, est élu maire de Londres, et succède au conservateur Boris J…
le travailliste Sadiq Khan, fils d'immigrés pakistanais, est élu maire de Londres, et succède au conservateur Boris Johnson à cette fonction.
حريق هائل في كندا يدفع عشرات الآلاف من السكان إلى النزوح من مدينة فورت ماكموراي.
حريق هائل في كندا يدفع عشرات الآلاف من السكان إلى النزوح من مدينة فورت ماكموراي.
Inaugurada Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, a maior usina 100% brasileira e a 3a maior do mundo.
Inaugurada Usina Hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, a maior usina 100% brasileira e a 3a maior do mundo.
despega la misión InSight de la NASA rumbo al planeta Marte, teniendo como objetivo principal el descubrir la sismolo…
despega la misión InSight de la NASA rumbo al planeta Marte, teniendo como objetivo principal el descubrir la sismología de Marte.
Voo Aeroflot 1492 faz um pouso de emergência seguido de fogo na fuselagem no Aeroporto Internacional Sheremetievo, em…
Voo Aeroflot 1492 faz um pouso de emergência seguido de fogo na fuselagem no Aeroporto Internacional Sheremetievo, em Moscou, matando 41 das 78 pessoas a bordo.
au second tour de l'élection présidentielle de Macédoine du Nord, c'est le candidat Stevo Pendarovski de l'Union soci…
au second tour de l'élection présidentielle de Macédoine du Nord, c'est le candidat Stevo Pendarovski de l'Union sociale-démocrate de Macédoine (la SDMS) qui est élu.
The World Health Organization officially ended the global health emergency status for COVID-19, three years after the…
The World Health Organization officially ended the global health emergency status for COVID-19, three years after the virus first paralyzed international travel and commerce. This decision signaled a transition toward managing the virus as an established, ongoing health threat rather than an acute crisis, allowing nations to dismantle remaining emergency surveillance and funding structures.
au Panama, José Raúl Mulino remporte l’élection présidentielle, qui a lieu simultanément avec les élections législati…
au Panama, José Raúl Mulino remporte l’élection présidentielle, qui a lieu simultanément avec les élections législatives et les élections municipales.
Microsoft cierra los servidores de Skype tras más 21 años en servicio, mudando la información y contactos de los usua…
Microsoft cierra los servidores de Skype tras más 21 años en servicio, mudando la información y contactos de los usuarios de esta plataforma a Microsoft Teams.