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