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Events on May 5

• 1292 After making extensive election promises to the prince-electors, Count Adolf of Nassau is elected King of the Romans in Aachen.
• 1525 Martin Luther, previously sympathetic to the peasants' cause in the Peasants' War, distances himself from the rebellious peasants—who also invoked him—after the Weinsberg massacre in his treatise Against the Murderous and Looting Rabble of the Peasants.
• 1789 For the first time since 1614, the Estates-General, called by Louis XVI due to his precarious financial situation, convenes in Versailles. It consists of representatives of the nobility, the clergy and the Third Estate.
• 1921 On the 5th day of the 5th month, French fashion designer Coco Chanel presents the perfume brand Chanel Nº 5, one of the first synthetically produced perfumes.
• 1945 In German-occupied Prague, an uprising of the population against the occupying power begins. The following day, the Red Army launches the Prague Offensive.
• 1945 During the Second World War, the German partial capitulation for northwest Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands comes into force. This day is observed in the Netherlands as Liberation Day.
• 1955 With the entry into force of the Paris Treaties, the Occupation Statute ceases to have effect and the Federal Republic of Germany receives—subject to reservations—its state sovereignty. The Paris Treaties include, among others, the Germany Treaty and the new Saar Statute.
• 1961 NASA sends Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3 as part of the Mercury program.
• 1966 Borussia Dortmund becomes the first German team to win a European football cup. The team wins 2:1 against FC Liverpool after extra time in Glasgow and thus secures the European Cup Winners' Cup. Reinhard Libuda scores the winning goal.
• 1985 US President Ronald Reagan and Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl honor the victims of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the American and German soldiers killed in Bitburg. This leads to the Bitburg controversy because members of the Waffen-SS are also among the dead.
• 1990 In Bonn, the first round of the Two Plus Four talks begins between the FRG, the GDR and the four victorious powers France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States, which will ultimately lead to German reunification.
• 2012 During the celebrations for the Dutch Liberation Day in Breda, German Federal President Joachim Gauck, as the first foreign head of state, delivers the keynote address.

Born on May 5

• 1864 Nellie Bly, American journalist and world traveler
• 1901 Blind Willie McTell, American blues musician
• 1910 Leo Lionni, Graphic artist, painter and book author
• 1921 Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist
• 1940 Lance Henriksen, American actor
• 1950 Morton Rhue, American author
• 1950 Barbara Salesch, German judge
• 1980 Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
• 1981 Craig David, British musician
• 1990 Joanna Semmelrogge, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „5. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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