May
5
Independence
Day
Netherlands : May 5 1945
May
5 : World Hand Hygiene Day
As part
of the 5th May campaign this year, the World Health Organisation
are inviting all healthcare facilities to participate in their
Global Survey Project by completing the WHO online Self Assessment
Framework tool. The main objective of the Global Survey Project
is to gather a global picture of progress regarding hand hygiene
and to estimate how much the SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands global
campaign promotes actions taken by healthcare facilities
Events
553 – The
Second Council of Constantinople begins.
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of
England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of
the Magna Carta.
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and
claims it for Spain.
1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first
time since 1614.
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent,
for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle
of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena,
drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank,
but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes
de Onoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the
end of the day.
1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint
Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens
between Brussels and Mechelen.
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the
expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a
French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins
in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the
first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo,
New York.
1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into
Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel
Nelson Miles.
1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of
protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.
1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie
Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with
Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington
Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the
first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London,
England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is
used to gain a conviction for murder.
1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
for alleged robbery and murder.
1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T.
Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1925 – The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an
official language.
1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile
in London
1940 – World War II: Norwegian Campaign – Norwegian squads in
Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to the Nazis after
all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down
their arms.
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;
the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots'
Victory Day.
1944 – German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of
Kleisoura in Greece
1945 – World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands
and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate.
1945 – World War II: The Prague Uprising begins as an attempt
by the Czech resistance to free the city from Nazi occupation.
1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East
begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government
officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe
in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for
European integration.
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard
becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a
sub-orbital flight.
1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo,
Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft
disaster in Italy.
1973 – Secretariat (horse) wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59
2/5, a still standing record.
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms
the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after
66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised
hearings in the United States of America
1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington,
D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and
Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore
for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United
States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent
crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in
favor of it.
2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan
Liberation Army.
2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the
pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity
measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek
debt crisis.
Holidays
and observances Children's
Day (Japan)
Children's Day (South Korea)
Cinco de Mayo (Mexico and the United States)
Christian Feast Day:
Angelus of Jerusalem
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
Hilary of Arles
Jutta of Kulmsee
May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Coronation Day, commemorates the coronation of King Bhumibol
Adulyadej in 1950. (Thailand)
Europe Day (Council of Europe)
Feast of al-Khadr or St. George (Palestinian)
Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)
International Midwives' Day (International)
Liberation Day (Denmark)
Liberation Day (The Netherlands)
Lusophone Culture Day (Community of Portuguese-speaking countries)
Martyrs' Day (Albania)
Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)
Senior Citizens Day (Palau)
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