1941 – The world’s first programmable, fully automatic computer is presented, The Z3 was designed by German inventor, Konrad Zuse. The original machine was destroyed in an air raid. A replica can be seen at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0512z3-first-programmable-computer/#:~:text=1941%3A%20German%20engineer%20Konrad%20Zuse,first%20fully%20functional%2C%20programmable%20computer.
1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre.
1215 – English barons serve ultimatum on King John which eventually leads to the creation and signing of the Magna Carta
1264 – The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins
1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was founded in Lima, Peru
1588 – French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city
1640 – Uprising against Spanish king Philip IV
1641 – Prince Willem II (14) marries English princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9)
1689 – King William’s War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France.
1777 – The first ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-New York Gazette)
1780 – Charleston, South Carolina fell to British forces.
1789 – Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers
1847 – William Clayton invented the odometer.
1862 – Federal troops occupies Baton Rouge LA
1870 – Manitoba entered the Confederation as a Canadian province.
1871 – Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville KY
1881 – Tunisia, in North Africa became a French protectorate.
1885 – In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.
1898 – Louisiana adopts new constitution with “”grandfather clause”” designed to eliminate black voters
1902 – United Mine Workers leader John Mitchell leads his 147,000 anthracite coal workers out of the pits to begin a 5-month strike that cripples the United States
1926 – The airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
1926 – In Britain, a general strike by trade unions ended. The strike began on May 3, 1926.
1932 – The body of the kidnapped son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, NJ
1933 – Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers
1937 – Britain’s King George VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1938 – Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1940 – French mariners occupy St Maarten
1940 – The Nazi conquest of France began with the German army crossing Muese River.
1941 – The world’s first programmable, fully automatic computer is presented, The Z3 was designed by German inventor, Konrad Zuse. The original machine was destroyed in an air raid. A replica can be seen at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0512z3-first-programmable-computer/#:~:text=1941%3A%20German%20engineer%20Konrad%20Zuse,first%20fully%20functional%2C%20programmable%20computer.
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov In the eastern Ukraine, the Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the Soviets will capture the city of Kharkov from the German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.
1943 – The Axis forces in North Africa surrendered during World War II.
1949 – The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.
1950 – The American Bowling Congress abolished its white males-only membership restriction after 34 years.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
1965 – West Germany and Israel exchanged letters establishing diplomatic relations.
1970 – Harry A Blackmun is confirmed by the U S Senate as a Supreme Court justice
1970 – Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed
1975 – U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.
1978 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.
1978 – In Zare, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba. The government of Zare asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order
1981 – Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.
1982 – A Spanish priest attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II, Juan María Fernández y Krohn opposed the reforms initiated by the Second Vatican Council and believed that the Pope was a Communist agent. John Paul II escaped with minor injuries.
1982 – South Africa unveiled a plan that would give voting rights to citizens of Asian and mixed-race descent, but not to black people.
1984 – South African prisoner Nelson Mandela saw his wife for the first time in 22 years.
1990 – Nora Dunn & Sinead O’Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew “Dice” Clay’s hosting
1994 – The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ends, With the signing of the Bishkek Protocol a week earlier, Armenian and Azerbaijani diplomats had formalized the ceasefire that went into effect on May 12. The conflict itself remains unsolved.
1997 – Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1998 – Violent clashes follow the killing of four protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia
1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismissed Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and named Interior Minister Sergei Stepashin as his successor.
2002 – Former U.S. President Carter arrived in Cuba for a visit with Fidel Castro. It was the first time a U.S. head of state, in or out of office, had gone to the island since Castro’s 1959 revolution.
2003 – In Texas, fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers went into hiding over a dispute with Republican’s over a congressional redistricting plan.
2003 – The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, 26 killed
2006 – A major rebellion occurs in São Paulo as members of criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital attack police officers and stations, eventually escalating to several prisons in Brazil leaving around 130 dead
2007 – Riots in Karachi, Pakistan are started by the arrival at Karachi’s airport of independently minded Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and go on to kill 48 people
2012 – The discovery of a missing Mayan calendar piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
2013 – Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints
2018 – Insurgent group attacks the town of Muse, Myanmar, killing at least 19 people, Ta’ang National Liberation Army claim responsibility
2019 – Cuba announced more rationing of products such as rice and beans due to US trade embargo and hoarding
2019 – Gunman kill five people and a priest in a Catholic church in Dablo, Burkina Faso, before setting fire to and looting nearby buildings
2020 – Militants storm a hospital and a funeral in Kabul, Afghanistan, shooting an estimated 40 people dead including new mothers and their babies
2021 – US Republicans vote to demote their No.3 Liz Cheney from party leadership after she publicly rebuked Donald Trump for lies about the election
2022 – First images published of the supermassive blackhole Sagittarius A* that lies at the heart of the Milky Way captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
