May 5: on this day in history...
2 May 2017
May 5: on this day in history...
In the Solar System:
1979 - Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
In the Western Hemisphere:
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz.
1494 - On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica.
In Mexico:
The Mexican army achieved an unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
In the United States, May 5 is sometimes mistaken for Mexico's Independence Day, which is celebrated on September 16.
In America:
2006 - The first mass illegal alien demonstrations invade the streets of American cities.
1987 - The U.S. congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened.
1961 - The first American in space. Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space.
1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada test Site.
1942 - US begins rationing sugar during WW II.
1925 - John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
1892 - The U.S. Congress extended the Geary Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 more years.
1877 - American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1866 - Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
1864 - Atlanta Campaign: 5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge.
1864 - Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern).
1864 - Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA.
Related
May Day: Democrat Hypocrisy Hits Zenith, Limits to Growth, May 2, 2017.
Illegal Alien Day - The Left used May Day to push its open-borders agenda this year, Canada Free Press, May 2, 2017.
May Day demonstrations marred by clashes & mass arrests, RT, May 3, 2017.