1901<\/strong> – The first Catholic mass for night workers was held at the Church of St. Andrew in New York City.<\/p>\n 1904<\/strong> – The third perfect game of the\u00a0major leagues was thrown by Cy Young (Boston Red Sox) against the Philadelphia Athletics. It was the first perfect game under modern rules.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – Soviet Communist Party newspaper\u00a0Pravda<\/i>\u00a0began publishing.<\/p>\n 1916<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines invaded the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate with the French Air Service.<\/p>\n 1925<\/strong> – John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton,\u00a0TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Eisenstein’s film “Battleship Potemkin” was shown in Germany for the first time.<\/p>\n 1926<\/strong> – Sinclair Lewis refused a 1925 Pulitzer for “Arrowsmith.”<\/p>\n 1936<\/strong> – Edward Ravenscroft received a patent for the screw-on bottle cap with a pouring lip.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – The Netherlands and Denmark were liberated from Nazi control.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in\u00a0Oregon. A pregnant woman and five children were killed.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – “Damn Yankees” opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became a sovereign state.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Jim Bailey became the first runner to break the four-minute mile in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0He was clocked at 3:58.5.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15-minute suborbital flight.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – Willie Mays broke the\u00a0National League\u00a0record for home runs when he hit his 512th.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds registered his 3,000th\u00a0major league\u00a0hit.<\/p>\n 1984<\/strong> – The Itaipu Dam opened on the Paran\u00e1 River between Brazil and Paraguay.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – In New York, Carnegie Hall marked its 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Dolores Hope received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Ivan Reitman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The final episode of “Boy Meets World” aired on ABC.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The government of\u00a0Sudan\u00a0signs an accord with the\u00a0Sudan Liberation Army.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mass protests\u00a0in Greece erupt in response to\u00a0austerity\u00a0measures imposed by the government as a result of the\u00a0Greek government-debt crisis.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Eleven people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship\u00a0collides\u00a0with a\u00a0Marshall Islands-registered\u00a0container ship\u00a0off the coast of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> \u2013 Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees\u00a0collide\u00a0in the\u00a0Aegean Sea\u00a0off the coast of Greece.<\/p>\n 2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A Russian plane jet burst into flames while attempting an emergency landing at\u00a0Sheremetyevo Airport\u00a0in Moscow killing at least 41 people.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 5 May 1901 – The first Catholic mass for night workers was held at the Church of St. Andrew in New York City. 1904 – The third perfect game of the\u00a0major leagues was thrown by Cy Young (Boston Red Sox) against the Philadelphia Athletics. 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