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2023

The WHO announces that COVID-19 is now sufficiently under control to lift the highest alert level, after more than three years of a pandemic that has claimed “at least 20 million” lives.

2021

Canada becomes the first country to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15.

2018

An e-cigarette explodes in a man’s face in St. Petersburg, Florida, claiming the first fatality.

2016

Fort McMurray wildfire: Alberta declares a state of emergency, and the evacuation of 80,000 people continues.

1971

The band Led Zeppelin performs the song “Stairway to Heaven” for the first time during a concert in Belfast.

1969

The Milwaukee Bucks sign the first overall pick in the NBA draft, center Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

1962

The soundtrack to the movie “West Side Story” reaches No. 1 and remains there for 54 weeks.

1961

Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space after completing a 15-minute suborbital flight.

1956

Elvis Presley’s song “Heartbreak Hotel” reaches number one. It is the singer’s first number-one hit and the best-selling song of 1956.

1922

Construction begins on Yankee Stadium (Bronx).

1921

The perfume Chanel No. 5 is launched by designer Coco Chanel.

1904

Cy Young, pitcher for the Boston Americans, throws the first perfect game in modern baseball history against the Philadelphia Athletics.

1821

Napoleon Bonaparte dies on Saint Helena, where he was in exile.

1494

Christopher Columbus discovers Jamaica during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere. He named the island Santa Gloria.

It happened on… May 5

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