Today is Sunday, May 5th, the 126th day of 2024. There are 240 days left this year.
Today's history highlights:
On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard the Mercury capsule Freedom 7, becoming America's first space traveler.
In 1494, Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte (age 51) died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was indicted in Tennessee for violating a state law prohibiting teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later vacated.)
In 1942, wartime sugar rationing began in the United States.
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In 1973, Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, his first victory in the Triple Crown, with a time of 1 minute, 59.4 seconds, a record that still stands.
In 1981, Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands died after being deprived of food on his 66th day in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.
In 1994, Singapore caned American teenager Michael Fay for criminal damage, one day after his sentence was reduced from six to four lashes following President Bill Clinton's appeal.
In 2009, Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident from swine flu.
In 2014, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld Christian prayers at the beginning of local council meetings.
In 2016, former Los Angeles garbage man Lonnie Franklin Jr. was convicted of 10 murders in the Grim Sleeper, a serial killing spree that targeted poor young black women over a period of more than 20 years.
In 2017, President Donald Trump signed his first major bill, a $1 trillion spending bill to keep the government running through September.
In 2018, Triple Crown contender Justify raced off the slopes of Churchill Downs to win the Kentucky Derby by two and a half lengths, making him the first horse since Apollo in 1882 to win the Derby without running as a 2-year-old. became. -old.
Tyson Foods is operating its massive pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, on a limited basis with heightened safety measures, more than two weeks after the facility was shut down due to the spread of coronavirus among employees in 2020. announced that it would reopen.
Today's birthdays: Actor Michael Murphy 86 years old, actor Lance Henriksen 84 years old, comedian Michael Palin 81 years old, actor John Rhys-Davies 80 years old, rock correspondent Kurt Loder 79 years old, rock musician Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) 76 years old, actor Melinda Claire 69 years old, actor Lisa Eilbacher 67 years old, actor Richard E. Grant 67 years old, former broadcast journalist John Miller 66 years old, rock singer Ian McCulloch (Echo) and the Bunnymen) is 65 years old, broadcast journalist Brian Williams is 65 years old, rock musician Shawn Drover (Megadeth) is 58 years old, talent Ky'ihn Douglas is 54 years old, and actor Tina Yothers. is 51 years old, R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn is 49 years old, actor Santiago Cabrera is 46 years old, actor Vincent Kartheiser is 45 years old, and singer Craig David is 43 years old. Actor Daniel Fishel is 43 years old, actor Henry Cavill is 41 years old, actor Clark Duke is 39 years old, soul singer Adele is 36 years old, rock singer Skye Sweetnam is 36 years old, R&B singer Chris Brown is 35 years old, and figure skater Nathan Chen is 25 years old.