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