Who gives a F**k about Cinco de Mayo?
Let's see .... did anything else worth mentioning happen on May 5th?
United States 2009 United States Famous Feminist Dies 5th May, 2009 : Feminist icon Marilyn French died of heart failure at the age of seventy-nine in New York. The writer of "The Women's Room" had been working on a new novel and a memoir before her death.
United States 2007 United States Paris Hilton Sentenced to Jail 5th May, 2007 : Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was sentenced to forty-five days in jail after violating her probation by driving without a license. The twenty-six year old celebrity was speeding with her headlights off on a suspended license after a previous drunken driving charge when she was caught by the police.
1992 U.S.A. Bill Clinton 5th May 1992 : Governor Bill Clinton continues to increase his run for the democratic nomination with 80% of delegates number needed to secure the democratic presidential nomination. Meanwhile Ross Perot running as an independent is edging closer in the polls to President Bush and Bill Clinton.
1961 U.S.A. Alan B. Shepard Jr 5th May 1961 : Alan B. Shepard Jr became the first American in space today after soaring 115 miles above the earth in a spacecraft named Freedom 7.
1925 United States John Thomas Scopes 5th May 1925 : John Thomas Scopes a teacher from Dayton, Tennessee is arrested for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was charged on May 25th and the case ended with a guilty verdict, and a fine of $100.
1891 U.S.A. Carnegie Hall 5th May 1891 : Carnegie Hall originally called Music Hall has it's official opening in New York City with a concert conducted by maestro Walter Damrosch and composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
1945 U.S.A. Japanese Bomb Kills in US 5th May 1945 : A Japanese balloon bomb explodes at Mitchell Recreation Area on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children. This is the only recorded instants of deaths caused by Japanese Bombs on the American mainland in World War II.
Oh wait ..... here's some Mexican history worth mentioning on May 5th ...............
At least 23 people killed in Mexican border city as victims hanged, decapitated
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/04/at-least-23-people-killed-in-mexican-border-city-as-victims-hanged-decapitated/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews
