Today is Tuesday, May 5, the 125th day of 2015. There are 240 days left in the year.
1834 ― Charles Darwin’s expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz
1891 ― Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
1893 ― Panic of 1893: Great crash on New York Stock Exchange
1900 ― “The Billboard” began weekly publication
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
1932 ― Japan and China sign a peace treaty
1955 ― West Germany granted full sovereignty by three occupying powers
1956 ― World championships of judo are first held, in Tokyo
2000 ― Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon