Today in History - History - May 5th

1494On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica

1991Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic

1992Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection

1945World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.

1925Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)

1930Bradman scores 185* Aust v Leicestershire, 317 mins, 16 fours

199934th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw wins

1891Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in NY, Tchaikovsky as guest conductor

1834Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz

1978Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits

1988Adele [Adele Laurie Blue Adkins], Tottenham, London, English singer (Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You)

1818Karl Marx, Trier, Prussia, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), (d. 1883)

1942Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man), (d. 1998)

1747Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)

1921Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Mount Vernon, New York, American physicist, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work with lasers

1943Michael Palin, Sheffield England, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)

1963Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (26) weds teacher Sajida Talfah (26)

1964Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella (41) weds long-time friend Roxie Joynes

2007"Scream" actress Neve Campbell (33) weds actor John Light (32) in Malibu

2000Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie (24) weds actor Billy Bob Thornton (44) at The Little Church of The West Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

1940Actress Mary Martin (26) weds producer Richard Halliday (35)

1761Jurist William Blackstone (37) weds Sarah Clitherow

1821French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815), dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena

1959Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, dies at 80