Talk:May 5
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May 5: Liberation Day in Denmark, Ethiopia, and the Netherlands; Children's Day in Japan and South Korea; Cinco de Mayo in Mexico.
- 1789 - French Revolution: The Estates-General convened in Versailles to discuss a financial crisis in France.
- 1862 - Mexican troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halted a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
- 1904 - Cy Young (pictured) of the Boston Americans pitched the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- 1949 - The Council of Europe was formed.
- 1950 - Prince Bhumibol Adulyadej was crowned in Bangkok as King Rama IX of Thailand, currently the world's longest-serving head of state.
Recent days: May 4 – May 3 – May 2
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- 1979 - Tamara Struminger, office admin extrodinaire
I don't find anything significant on Google, can someone verify the above as needing an entry? -- sannse 17:52 23 May 2003 (UTC)
American sports scores seem to be creeping into Wikipedia (there is a baseball one today), and trivia about US TV shows (today, The Love Boat). People from 190 nations use the Internet, and if Wikipedia opens itself to such trite material from the whole world, the WWW won't be big enough to contain it all. And I doubt that such material is consequential enough for any encyclopedia worth the name. -PW
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers' CD release is hardly a historical event, plus, it isn't even the correct date, so I am removing it.
Article says John Gotti Agnello was born on May 5, while the John Gotti Agnello page says May 8. Which is correct?
