As we speak is Monday, Could 5, the one hundred and twenty fifth day of 2025. There are 240 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Could 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. turned America’s first area traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7.
Additionally on this date:
In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
In 1862, Mexican troops repelled French assaults on the town of Puebla de los Ángeles within the Battle of Puebla, also called the Battle of Cinco de Mayo.
In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state legislation that prohibited instructing the idea of evolution. (Scopes was discovered responsible, however his conviction was later put aside.)
In 1945, in the one deadly assault on the U.S. mainland throughout World Warfare II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing a pregnant girl and 5 youngsters.
In 1973, Secretariat received the Kentucky Derby, the primary of his Triple Crown victories, in a time of 1:59.4 — a file that also stands.
In 1981, Irish Republican Military hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at age 27 on the Maze Jail in Northern Eire on his 66th day with out meals.
In 1994, Singapore caned American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence was decreased from six lashes to 4 in response to an enchantment by President Invoice Clinton.
In 2016, Lonnie Franklin Jr. was convicted of 10 counts of homicide within the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings in Los Angeles that focused poor, younger Black ladies over 20 years.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Actor Lance Henriksen is 85.
- Comic-actor Michael Palin is 82.
- Actor Richard E. Grant is 68.
- R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn is 50.
- Actor Vincent Kartheiser is 46.
- Actor Danielle Fishel is 44.
- Actor Henry Cavill is 42.
- Singer-songwriter Adele is 37.
- R&B singer Chris Brown is 36.
- Tennis participant Aryna Sabalenka is 27.
- Olympic determine skating gold medalist Nathan Chen is 26.
- Tennis participant Carlos Alcaraz is 22.