How Many Days Until May 5?

This day in history: May 5

1. 1980

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

2. 1981

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

3. 1991

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

4. 1992

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

5. 1994

   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.

6. 2007

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

7. 2020

   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.

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