This day in history
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► Today is Thursday, May 5, the 125th day of 2011. There are 240 days left in the year.
► Today’s birthdays: Actress Pat Carroll is 84. Former AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney is 77. Saxophonist Ace Cannon is 77. Country singer Roni Stoneman is 73. Actor Michael Murphy is 73. Actor Lance Henriksen is 71. Comedian-actor Michael Palin is 68. Actor John Rhys-Davies is 67. Actor Roger Rees is 67. Rock correspondent Kurt Loder is 66. Rock musician Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) is 63. Actor Richard E. Grant is 54. Rock singer Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen) is 52. NBC News anchor Brian Williams is 52. Rock musician Shawn Drover (Megadeth) is 45. TV personality Kyan Douglas is 41. Actress Tina Yothers is 38. Actor Vincent Kartheiser is 32. Singer Craig David is 30. Actress Danielle Fishel is 30. Actor Henry Cavill is 28. Soul singer Adele is 23. Rock singer Skye Sweetnam is 23. R&B singer Chris Brown is 22.
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► In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
► In 1862, Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla.
► In 1891, New York’s Carnegie Hall (then named “Music Hall’’) had its official opening night.
► In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.)
► In 1936, the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, fell to Italian invaders.
► In 1941, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa after the Italians were driven out.
► In 1942, Japanese forces landed on the Philippine island of Corregidor.
► In 1955, West Germany became a fully sovereign state.
► In 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Freedom 7. President John F. Kennedy signed a bill raising the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour.
► In 1981, Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.
► In 2001, Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit Syria.
► In 2010, three people, trapped in an Athens bank torched by rioters, died during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped Greek government’s harsh austerity measures.
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