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Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National Telecommunications Commission after Congress failed to renew its franchise granted in 1995.
Aeroflot Flight 1492 was struck by lightning after leaving Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport and caught fire during the subsequent emergency landing attempt, killing 41 people on board.
Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.
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The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States.
Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record.
Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
World War II: Norwegian campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.
Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published.
The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded.
Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.
American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.
Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
The Second Council of Constantinople begins.