On This Day
May 5
1260. Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis, became the fifth and last Khagan of the Mongol Empire
1646. King Charles I of England and Scotland surrendered to the Scottish Presbyterian Army at Newark.
1809. The Swiss canton of Aargau denied citizenship to Jews.
1835. In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1891. Guest conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky performed at the opening night of The Music Hall in New York, now known as Carnegie Hall.
1936. Italian troops occupied Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1941. Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on a day since commemorated as Liberation Day.
2005. The United Kingdom general election took place in which Tony Blair's Labour Party was re-elected for a third, consecutive term.
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