International Midwives Day
Day of Vesak
Netherlands National Day
Celebrated in Mexico as Cinco de Mayo, a national holiday in remembrance of the Battle of Puebla in 1862, in which Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza, outnumbered three to one, defeated the invading French forces of Napoleon III.
1260 - Kublai Khan became ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 - On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sighted Jamaica
1893 - The Wall Street Crash of 1893 began as stock prices fell dramatically. By the end of the year, 600 banks closed and several big railroads were in receivership. Another 15,000 businesses went bankrupt amid 20 percent unemployment. It was the worst economic crisis in U.S. history up to that time.
1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej was crowned King Rama IX of Thailand in the Royal Palace in Bangkok
1955 - Indian parliament accepted Hindu divorce bill.
1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He piloted the spacecraft Freedom 7 during a 15-minute 28-second suborbital flight that reached an altitude of 116 miles (186 kilometers) above the earth. Shepard’s success occurred 23 days after the Russians had launched the first-ever human in space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin,
Birth Days
Birthday - Communism founder Karl Marx (1818-1883) was born in Treves, Germany. He co-authored Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto, advocating the abolition of all private property and a system in which workers own all the means of production, land, factories and machinery.
1864 - Nellie Bly - Nellie Bly was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, a reporter known for a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg. She launched a new kind of investigative journalism.She was an industrialist, inventor, and charity worker also.
5 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management
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