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A depiction of the Battle of the Wilderness
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| St George's Day (Palestinians); | multiple CN tags (10) |
| Liberation Day in Denmark, Ethiopia, and the Netherlands; | refimprove |
| ; Children's Day in Japan and South Korea | refimprove section, more citations needed |
| 1260 – Kublai Khan claimed the title of Khagan of the Mongol Empire after the death of his older brother Möngke in the previous year. | unreferenced section |
| 1789 – The Estates General convened in Versailles to discuss a financial crisis in France, triggering a series of events that led to the French Revolution. | refimprove section |
| 1862 – Mexican troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halted a French invasion at the Battle of Puebla. | refimprove |
| 1912 – The Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was first published in Saint Petersburg, Russia. | unreferenced section, Outdated |
| 1945 – The Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps were liberated by the United States Army. | Mauthausen: expansion |
| 1949 – Ten European countries signed the Treaty of London, creating the Council of Europe, today one of the oldest international organisations working for European integration. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – The Supreme Council of Crimea declared Crimea to be independent from Ukraine. | multiple issues |
| 1994 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War | saved for February 20, the start of the war |
| 2005 – The United Kingdom general election was held, leading to a record third consecutive term for Tony Blair as a Labour Prime Minister. | unreferenced section |
| 2010 – A series of demonstrations in Athens and general strikes across Greece began in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the debt crisis. | update |
| Søren Kierkegaard |b|1813 | too many quotes |
| Lusophone Culture Day; | Vast swathes uncited |
| * 1809 – Mary Dixon Kies became the first woman to receive a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. | Article says this is disputed |
| * 1936 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italian troops captured the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa unopposed. | Tagged for tone issues |
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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.
- 2020 – Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National Telecommunications Commission after Congress failed to renew its franchise granted in 1995.
- 2007 – [[Kenya Airways Flight 507|Kenya Airways Template:Nowrap]] crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.
- 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| John Thomas North |d|1896| Pritilata Waddedar |b|1911| Mavis Batey |b|1921| Chris Birchall |b|1984| Adele |b|1988| Nathan Chen |b|1999|
May 5: Lixia begins in China (2026); Children's Day in Japan; Cinco de Mayo in Mexico and the United States Template:Main page image/OTD
- 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.