On This Day:
Monday May 5, 2014 This is the 125th day of the year, with 240 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: hermaphrodites Hermaphrodites are animals and plants that have both male and female reproductive organs. Hermaphroditic plants are mainly flowering and are called "bisexual." Hermaphroditic animals are mainly invertebrates, including worms, bryozoans (moss animals), trematodes (flukes), snails, and slugs. It is an extremely rare condition in human beings.
Holidays Feast day of St. Hydroc, St. Hilary of Arles, St. Hilary of Galeata, St. Angelo, St. Jutta, St. Avertinus, and St. Mauruntius.
Japan: Japanese Boys' Festival.
Japan: Children's Day or Kodomo no hi.
Mexico: Cinco de Mayo.
Netherlands: Liberation Day.
South Korea: Children's Day.
Ethiopia: Patriots Victory Day.
Thailand: Coronation Day.
Events 1809 - The first woman was issued a U.S. patent: Mary Kies of South Killingly, Connecticut, for a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
1847 - The American Medical Association was organized, in Philadelphia.
1862 - During the French-Mexican War, the Mexican army defeated the French attempting to capture Puebla, a small town in east-central Mexico.
1891 - Carnegie Hall, then named "Music Hall," had its opening night in New York City.
1893 - Panic hit the New York Stock Exchange and the stock market crashed; by year's end, the country was in a severe depression.
1904 - Cy Young (Denton True Young) pitched baseball's first perfect game.
1921 - Chanel No. 5 perfume was launched.
1925 - John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1955 - West Germany became a sovereign state.
1961 - Alan B. Shepard became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2002 - French President Jacques Chirac was re-elected in a landslide victory.
2004 - Pablo Picasso's painting "Boy with a Pipe" (1905) sold for a record $104.1 million at a Sotheby's auction.
2005 - The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term.
Births 1512 - Gerardus Mercator (Gerhard Kremer), Flemish cartographer.
1813 - Sören Kierkegaard, Danish religious philosopher.
1818 - Karl Marx, German socialist writer, philosopher, founder of communism.
1867 - Nelly Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman), American journalist.
1942 - Tammy Wynette, American singer and songwriter.
1943 - Michael Palin, English comedian and actor, probably best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python.
Deaths 1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor.
1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966.
2008 - Irv Robbins, born in Winnipeg, Canada, founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law, Burt Baskin.
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