Today is Monday, May 5, the 125th day of 2014. There are 240 days left in the year. May 5 2010, Umar Musa Yar'Adua, 13th Head of State of Nigeria (2007-2010), died in office.
In 2009, Former governor of the old Anambra State, Chief C. C. Onoh, died aged 82. Onoh, a lawyer, had run for the governorship of the state in 1983 on the platform of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and defeated the much favoured Nigeria peoples Party (NPP)
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
In 1891, New York's Carnegie Hall (then named "Music Hall") had its official opening night.
In 1914, actor Tyrone Power was born in Cincinnati.
In 1934, the first Three Stooges short for Columbia Pictures, "Woman Haters," was released.
In 1942, wartime sugar rationing began in the United States.
In 1955, West Germany became a fully sovereign state. The baseball musical "Damn Yankees" opened on Broadway.
In 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7.
In 1964, the Granada TV documentary "Seven Up!," which profiled a group of 7-year-old British children, first aired on Britain's ITV network. (The subjects were revisited every seven years in sequels called "7 Plus Seven," ''21 Up," ''28 Up," etc., the latest one to date being "56 Up.")
In 1981, Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in his 66th day without food.
In 1994, Singapore caned American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence was reduced from six lashes to four in response to an appeal by President Bill Clinton, who considered the punishment too harsh.
Ten years ago: Seeking to calm international outrage, President George W. Bush acknowledged mistakes but stopped short of an apology as he condemned the abuse and deaths of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers during appearances on two Arabic-language TV networks.
One year ago: In Afghanistan, seven Americans and one German soldier were killed in three separate attacks. Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, seriously wounded in a 2011 shooting at a Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall, received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston.
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