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The following events took place on May 5. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 56 events. Showing 31 - 56.

• 1940

  World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces 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 British troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from German 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 German 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 is crowned 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.
• 1965

  The Warlocks, later known as The Grateful Dead, make their first public appearance in Menlo Park, California.
• 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 wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, an as-yet unbeaten record.
• 1977

  The first of The Nixon Interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon are broadcast.
• 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.
• 1985

  Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen: Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg, Germany, and the site of the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, where he makes a speech.
• 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.
• 2006

  The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
• 2010

  Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
• 2014

  11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
• 2014

  22 people die after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.

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