Talk:May 5

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May 5: Lixia begins in China (2024); Children's Day in Japan; Cinco de Mayo in Mexico and the United States A depiction of the Battle of the Wilderness 1646 – First English Civil War: Charles I surrendered himself to Scottish Covenanter leader David Leslie near Newark, England. 1864 – American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia began with the inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness (pictured) in Spotsylvania County. 1945 – World War II: The citizens of Prague spontaneously rose up against the city's German occupiers. 1980 – The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege by Iranian Arab separatists. 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard. Samuel Cooper (d. 1672) William George Beers (b. 1841) Irene Gut Opdyke (b. 1922) More anniversaries: May 4 May 5 May 6

Sports scores

American sports scores seem to be creeping into Wikipedia (there is a baseball one today), and trivia about US TV shows (today, The Love Boat). People from 190 nations use the Internet, and if Wikipedia opens itself to such trite material from the whole world, the WWW won't be big enough to contain it all. And I doubt that such material is consequential enough for any encyclopedia worth the name. -PW

This kind of trivia should always be removed. Fans of any particular sport often think that the whole world revolves around what happens in that sport, when in fact the vast majority of the world neither know nor care about the results. Jim Michael (talk) 17:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for posting up these comments, guys. It means I can take down the entry about the football final, without feeling guilty!

Cuddy2977 (talk) 15:23, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

CD release

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers' CD release is hardly a historical event, plus, it isn't even the correct date, so I am removing it.

In a similar way, fans of any particular band often think that everything that happens to them is of major world importance, when for the vast majority of people it is irrelevant. Jim Michael (talk) 17:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

John Gotti Angelo

Article says John Gotti Agnello was born on May 5, while the John Gotti Agnello page says May 8. Which is correct?

No Pants Day

I'm pretty sure that National No Pants day falls on the first Friday of May (the 4th in 2007)--or so says the article pertaining to this certain holiday. Which is more credible? If it helps, Facebook says that NPD is on a Friday too. Justin 22:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Numerous errors

There are numerous errors on this page.

1) This is not the date of Charles I's surrender; in fact, I cannot seem to find the date of his surrender anywhere in my books. It may be the date of the surrender of the town Newark-on-Trent, but even this is unclear.

2) There is no corroborating date anywhere on the Panic of 93 page that links it with this date.

3) The Scopes entry indicates he was served with an arrest warrant on this date, but he was in fact arrested on May 25th, not the 5th, as confirmed by a book source.

4) On Mahatma Gandhi's page it only indicates he was released before May 6th; again, I had to corroborate that he was in fact released on the 5th from a book.

5) Stroessner's page indicates that the junta he led to power did so on May 4th, not 5th, although another book source in my library states that the 5th is the correct date.

Forgive my frustration, but I'm new here and not yet comfortable with the idea of editing. The last thing I want to do is to step on anyone's toes.

I rely on these pages for much of my blog content, and as such I'm accustomed to finding one or two errors per day here, but this day was especially bad.

I was hoping to wait until the New Year to wade into the whole editing process, since my blog is currently using up 90% of my effort. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael sean morris (talk • contribs) 04:14, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

All of the above have been removed with the exception of #3 which is supported in the linked article Butler Act. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 21:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Nazis? Further errors

The following 'On This Day' item headline needs altering:-

'1940 – World War II: A squad of 250 Norwegian volunteers in Hegra Fortress finally surrendered to a vastly superior Nazi force after a 25-day siege.' The related page makes no mention of Nazis. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hegra_Fortress

Robata (talk) 14:48, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Eid ul-Fitr

what is this doing on this page? Eid ul-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, and in 2010 should be on or around 10 September--The Lesser Merlin (talk) 09:52, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Visible planets, sun, moon alignment

I would like to know the interest in adding the following:

• 2000 – The five visible planets from Earth by the naked eye (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn), as well as the sun and Earth's moon, were all positioned approximately inline with the Earth for the first time since March 4th, 1953 B.C. (since about 4000 years ago); and for the last time in the next 4000 years.

Cheers Besh (talk) 20:12, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

• No objections announced, therefore added. Cheers Besh (talk) 13:20, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

References

Cleanup of births and deaths

In accordance with the guidelines, I'm continuing to weed the Births and Deaths sections by removing entries for celebrities with 0-4 articles in other languages. Where possible, these have been transferred to the relevant Year in Topic articles. As well as making the lists more manageable, this will help with the globalization effort. See further discussion at Talk:May 10. Deb (talk) 11:34, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

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Afrikaans

I’ve moved the entry about Afrikaans from the 5th, to the 8th, of May: as this is when the entry says the language got official South African recognition. Cuddy2977 (talk) 15:44, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Kleisoura

The link's page says April 5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleisoura,_Kastoria

--JFCochin (talk) 13:48, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

First publication of The Manchester Guardian in 1821

My addition of the first publication of The Manchester Guardian (continuously published ever since, although latterly under the title The Guardian) on this day in 1821 was deleted because such an event is apparently insufficiently notable compared to others. However, I see that the first publication of The Times is deemed worthy of mention on January 1. If the issue is that the first publication of a 200-year-old newspaper (and there aren't many publications that old anywhere in the world) is simply not the single most important event of 1821, I notice that two events occurring on 1 January in 1776, 1801, 1901, and 1947 are also all included. JezGrove (talk) 17:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)