MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008

Today is Monday, May 5, the 126th day of 2008. There are 240 days left in the year.

1494 _ Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica on his second voyage to the New World

1834 _ Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz

1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

1920 _ U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal

1932 _ Japan and China sign a peace treaty

1944 _ Gandhi freed from prison

1945 _ Denmark liberated from Nazi control

1949 _ Council of Europe established

1961 _ Alan Shepard becomes first American in space (aboard Freedom 7)

2000 _ Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon