May 5: Cinco de Mayo (dancers pictured) in Mexico and the United States
Cinco de Mayo dancers
- 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople, considered by many Christian churches to have been the fifth Christian Ecumenical Council, began to discuss the topics of Nestorianism and Origenism, among others.
- 1809 – Mary Dixon Kies became one of the first American women to receive a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops captured Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, unopposed.
- 1992 – The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified 202 years after it was proposed.
- 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.
Dorothy Garrod (b. 1892) · Søren Kierkegaard (b. 1813) · Adele (b. 1988)
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