May 5<\/p>\n
553 \u2013 Concerned with the rise of Nestorianism in the Church, the Second Council of Constantinople, called by Emperor Justinian I, convenes.<\/p>\n
1215 \u2013 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England\u00a0 beginning a chain of events leading to the signing of Magna Carta.<\/em><\/p>\n 1260 \u2013 Kublai Khan becomes the 5th Khagan emperor of Mongolia, and then decrees a stately pleasure dome be built in Xanadu.<\/p>\n 1494 \u2013 On his 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay<\/p>\n 1809 \u2013 Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.<\/p>\n 1821 \u2013 Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Mexican troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.<\/p>\n 1865 \u2013 The government of The Confederate States of America is declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.<\/p>\n 1866 \u2013 Memorial Day is first celebrated at Waterloo, New York.<\/p>\n 1877 \u2013 Sitting Bull leads his band of Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux into North- Western Territory\u00a0 -now Saskatchewan- Canada to evade surrender to U.S. forces.<\/p>\n 1893 \u2013 The financial Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the New York Stock Exchange<\/p>\n 1891 \u2013 The Music Hall in New York City (later Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as guest conductor.<\/p>\n 1904 \u2013 Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics<\/em> at the Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston, Cy Young of the Boston Americans<\/em> throws the first perfect game – basically 9 innings with no batter from the opposing team reaching any base-\u00a0 in the modern era of baseball.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 Arthur Pickens riding aboard Stone Street wins the Kentucky Derby in 2 minutes, 15 1\/5 seconds, setting a new, and to date unbeaten, record for the slowest<\/em> <\/strong>winning time<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 A Fu-Go<\/em> balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army during World War II kills 6 people near Bly, Oregon. 1946 \u2013 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 Under terms of The General Treaty<\/em>, France, Britain and the United States return and recognize the sovereignty of West Germany.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 Aboard Mercury Freedom 7,\u00a0<\/em>on a sub-orbital flight, Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 Ron Turcotte aboard Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in 1 minute, 59 2\/5th seconds, setting a new, and to date unbeaten, record for the fastest<\/em><\/strong> winning time<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 The Congressional\u00a0 hearings on the Iran\u2013Contra affair begin being televised.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.<\/p>\n 2013\u2013 5 members of a bridal party are killed after their limousine catches fire on the San Mateo-Hayward bridge in Hayward, California<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 The first death from a vaping product occurs when an electric cigarette explodes, penetrating his head and killing Tallmadge D’Elia, age 38, in his apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 5 553 \u2013 Concerned with the rise of Nestorianism in the Church, the Second Council of Constantinople, called by Emperor Justinian I, convenes. 1215 \u2013 Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England\u00a0 beginning a chain of events leading to the signing of Magna Carta. 1260 \u2013 Kublai Khan becomes the 5th … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92457,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67554\/revisions\/92457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAdmiral Karl D\u00f6nitz, leader of Germany after Hitler’s death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.<\/p>\n