Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 5

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 * 1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, which pardoned the people of Scotland for any crimes committed during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, was proclaimed in Edinburgh.
 * 1860 – Led by Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi, the volunteer Expedition of the Thousand set sail from Genoa on a campaign to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a crucial event of the unification of Italy.
 * 1904 – Pitching for the Boston Americans, Cy Young threw the first perfect game in modern professional baseball.
 * 1940 – World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers defending Hegra Fortress surrendered to a superior Nazi force after a 25-day siege.
 * 1945 – World War II: American and German troops fought side-by-side at the Battle for Castle Itter, defending a prison against Waffen-SS forces.
 * 1945 – World War II: The citizens of Prague spontaneously rose up against the city's German occupiers.
 * 1960 – The Netherlands Carillon was inaugurated in Arlington, Virginia, on the 15th anniversary of Dutch Liberation Day.
 * 1961 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard (pictured) made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second person to travel into outer space.
 * 1981 – After a 66-day hunger strike, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.
 * 1991 – Riots broke out in Washington, D.C., after a rookie police officer shot a Salvadoran man in the chest.
 * 1992 – The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.
 * 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
 * 2019 – Aeroflot Flight 1492 was struck by lightning after leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport and caught fire during the subsequent emergency landing attempt, killing 41 people on board.
 * Born/died: | Guru Amar Das |b|1479| Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis |d|1808| Hubert Howe Bancroft |b|1832| Henryk Sienkiewicz |b|1846| Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler |b|1883| Dorothy Garrod |b|1892| August Wilhelm von Hofmann |d|1892| Pritilata Waddedar |b|1911| Mavis Batey |b|1921| Adele |b|1988|

May 5: Easter (Eastern Christianity, 2024); Lixia begins in China (2024); Children's Day in Japan; Cinco de Mayo in Mexico and the United States


 * 1646 – First English Civil War: Charles I surrendered himself to Scottish Covenanter leader David Leslie near Newark, England.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness in Spotsylvania County.
 * 1891 – Carnegie Hall (interior pictured) in New York City, built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
 * 1980 – The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy in London following a six-day siege after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it.
 * 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.