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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Day_(Japan)" title="Children's Day (Japan)">Children's Day</a></b> in Japan; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo" title="Cinco de Mayo">Cinco de Mayo</a></b> in Mexico and the United States (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1646" title="1646">1646</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">First English Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War,_1646" title="First English Civil War, 1646">surrendered himself</a></b> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanters" title="Covenanters">Scottish Covenanter</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Leslie,_1st_Lord_Newark" title="David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark">David Leslie</a> near Newark, England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864" title="1864">1864</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> Lt. Gen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Campaign" title="Overland Campaign">Overland Campaign</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> began with the inconclusive <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Wilderness" title="Battle of the Wilderness">Battle of the Wilderness</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotsylvania_County,_Virginia" title="Spotsylvania County, Virginia">Spotsylvania County</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The citizens of Prague <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_uprising" title="Prague uprising">spontaneously rose up</a></b> against the city's German occupiers.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980" title="1980">1980</a> – The British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Air_Service" title="Special Air Service">Special Air Service</a> recaptured the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_Iran,_London" title="Embassy of Iran, London">Iranian embassy in London</a> after <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege" title="Iranian Embassy siege">a six-day siege</a></b> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Revolutionary_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Arabistan" title="Democratic Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Arabistan">Iranian Arab separatists</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007" title="2007">2007</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Airways_Flight_507" title="Kenya Airways Flight 507">Kenya Airways <span class="nowrap">Flight 507</span></a></b> crashed immediately after takeoff from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douala_International_Airport" title="Douala International Airport">Douala International Airport</a> in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cooper_(painter)" title="Samuel Cooper (painter)">Samuel Cooper</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1672); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_George_Beers" title="William George Beers">William George Beers</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1841); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Gut_Opdyke" title="Irene Gut Opdyke">Irene Gut Opdyke</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1922)</p>
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