Once Upon A Time – May 5 – 1955 – West Germany Is Granted Full Sovereignty By Its Three Occupying Powers

1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire

1893 Panic of 1893 causes a large crash on the NY Stock Exchange

1941 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa

1955 West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers

1965 First large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

1980 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building

1981 After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Provisional IRA member and British MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision. Nine more hunger strikers die in the next 3 months.

Historical Events Today Events in 2023

Today in Film & TV

2018 Childish Gambino [Donald Glover] releases the music video to new single “This is America” to wide acclaim

Today in Music

1891 Music Hall (now Carnegie Hall) opens in New York City, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of the New York Music Society Orchestra

Today in Sport

1904 Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in “modern” baseball as the Boston Americans beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0

1969 Milwaukee Bucks sign #1 NBA Draft pick, star UCLA center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

1921 Perfume Chanel No. 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel

1962 “West Side Story” soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album

Famous Weddings

1761 Jurist William Blackstone (37) weds Sarah Clitherow

1797 Napoleon I’s sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi

1885 Author Gerhart Hauptmann (22) weds Marie Thienemann