On This Day: May 5
Updated May 4, 2012, 2:28 PM
On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
On May 5, 1864, Nellie Bly, the American newspaper writer who challenged herself in an around-the-world race, was born. Following her death on Jan. 27, 1922, her obituary appeared in The Times.
| 1818 | Political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia. |
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| 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. |
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| 1891 | Carnegie Hall (then named Music Hall) opened in New York City. |
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| 1892 | Congress extended the Chinese Exclusion Act for 10 years. |
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| 1893 | Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange; by year's end, the country was in the throes of a severe depression. |
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| 1904 | Cy Young of the Boston Americans pitched the first perfect game in modern major league baseball history in a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics. |
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| 1925 | John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
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| 1955 | West Germany became a sovereign state. |
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| 1981 | Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died in prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food. |
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| 1985 | President Ronald Reagan attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany. The visit drew worldwide condemnation because 49 members of the Waffen SS were buried there. |
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| 2002 | French President Jacques Chirac was re-elected in a landslide victory over extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. |
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| 2010 | Preliminary plans for a mosque and cultural center near ground zero in New York were unveiled, setting off a national debate over whether the project was disrespectful to 9/11 victims and whether opposition to it exposed anti-Muslim biases. |
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Soul singer Adele turns 24 years old today.
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
NBC News anchor Brian Williams turns 53 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
| 1927 | Pat Carroll, Actress, turns 85 |
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| 1934 | John Sweeney, Former AFL-CIO president, turns 78 |
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| 1943 | Michael Palin, Actor, comedian (Monty Python), turns 69 |
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| 1944 | Roger Rees, Actor, director, turns 68 |
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| 1944 | John Rhys-Davies, Actor, turns 68 |
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| 1945 | Kurt Loder, Music journalist (MTV), turns 67 |
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| 1958 | John Miller, Assistant FBI director, former journalist, turns 54 |
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| 1970 | Kyan Douglas, TV personality ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"), turns 42 |
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| 1973 | Tina Yothers, Actress ("Family Ties"), turns 39 |
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| 1979 | Vincent Kartheiser, Actor ("Mad Men"), turns 33 |
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| 1981 | Craig David, Rock singer, turns 31 |
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| 1989 | Chris Brown, R&B singer, turns 23 |
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Historic Birthdays
Nellie Bly5/5/1864 - 1/27/1922American journalist and adventurer.Go to obituary »
| 77 | Arthur L. Schawlow 5/5/1921 - 4/28/1999
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1981) |
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| 44 | Leopold II 5/5/1747 - 3/1/1792
Holy Roman emperor (1790-92) |
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| 79 | Frederick Barnard 5/5/1809 - 4/27/1889
American president of Columbia College (1864-1889) |
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| 42 | Soren Kierkegaard 5/5/1813 - 11/11/1855
Danish religious philosopher |
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| 64 | Karl Marx 5/5/1818 - 3/14/1883
German political philosopher and economist; wrote "The Communist Manifesto" |
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| 85 | Hubert Howe Bancroft 5/5/1832 - 3/2/1918
American historian of the American West |
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| 60 | Peter Cooper Hewitt 5/5/1861 - 8/25/1921
American electrical engineer; invented the mercury-vapor lamp |
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| 66 | Christopher Morley 5/5/1890 - 3/28/1957
American novelist and columnist for the Saturday Review (1924-41) |
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| 76 | Dorothy Garrod 5/5/1892 - 12/18/1968
English archaeologist |
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| 82 | Sir Gordon Richards 5/5/1904 - 11/10/1986
English jockey and racehorse trainer |
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| 44 | Tyrone Power 5/5/1914 - 11/15/1958
American motion-picture and stage actor |
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