2013-05-05

The World Health Organization declared the end of COVID-19 as a global health emergency.

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.

Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all 114 people aboard.

American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.

The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, 202 years after it was first proposed.

Riots broke out in Washington, D.C., after a rookie police officer shot a Salvadoran man in the chest.

After a 66-day hunger strike, Irish republican Bobby Sands died of starvation in HM Prison Maze.

The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy in London following a six-day siege after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it.

Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second person to travel into outer space.

The Netherlands Carillon was inaugurated in Arlington, Virginia, on the 15th anniversary of Dutch Liberation Day.