THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2011

Today is Thursday, May 5, the 125th day of 2011. 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

1904 _ Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia A's (3-0)

1912 _ Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing

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

1925 _ Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)

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

1962 _ ``West Side Story" soundtrack album goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album

1979 _ Voyager 1 passes Jupiter

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