5th May anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1646
  • Great Britain
  • Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
  • 1809
  • United States
  • Mary Kies of Connecticut became the first woman to be issued with a US patent (for a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread)
  • 1949
  • The Council of Europe was founded
  • 1980
  • Great Britain
  • The SAS storms the Iranian embassy in London more
  • 1982
  • Argentina
  • General Belgrano sank
• Death
  • 1760
  • Great Britain
  • "First use of hangman's drop – last nobleman to be executed (Laurence, Earl Ferrers) at Tyburn"
  • 1808
  • France
  • "Death of Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, French physiologist ."
  • 1821
  • France
  • Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
  • 1859
  • Germany
  • "Death of Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician who made many valuable contributions to number theory"
  • 1959
  • Argentina
  • "Death of Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, played a major role in ending the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay. He was the first South American to be awarded a Nobel Prize"