WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2010

Today is Wednesday, May 5, the 125th day of 2010. There are 240 days left in the year.

1891 _ Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor

1900 _ ``The Billboard" began weekly publication

1912 _ Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

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

1925 _ John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee

1947 _ Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)

1955 _ West Germany granted full sovereignty by three occupying powers

1962 _ ``West Side Story" soundtrack album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 54 weeks

1965 _ First large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam

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