📜 This Day in History

May 5

• 1646First English Civil War: Charles I surrendered himself to Scottish Covenanter leader David Leslie near Newark, England.
• 1891Carnegie Hall in New York City, built by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, officially opened with a concert conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
• 1945World War II: American and German troops fought side-by-side at the Battle for Castle Itter, defending a prison against Waffen-SS forces.
• 1961Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second person to travel into outer space.
• 1992The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.
• 2023The World Health Organization declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency.

Born on this day

• 1813Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (died 1855)
• 1818Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (died 1883)
• 1846Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
• 1988Adele, English singer-songwriter