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Sunday, May 5, 2013

This will be 125th day of the year and 240 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 25 Iyyar 5773
Chinese calendar — the 26th day of the 3rd month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 5 Birthdays

Karl Marx
1818–83, German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism.

Soren Kierkegaard
philosopher and religious thinker (1813)

Nellie Bly
journalist (1867)

Tyrone Power
actor (1914)

Arthur L Schawlow
physicist (1921)

Tammy Wynette
country singer (1942)

May 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 5 in History

1809

Mary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman to be granted a patent. The patent was for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.

1821

Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena.

1891

Carnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.

1925

John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwinism.

1961

Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

1981

Bobby Sands of the Irish Republican Army died in a prison hospital on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

2004

Pablo Picasso's "Boy with a Pipe" became the most expensive painting ever sold.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.