Today in History - History - May 5th

1646King Charles I surrenders at Scotland

1877Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

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

1944Gandhi freed from prison

1992Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection

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

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

1966Willie Mays hit his 512th HR

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

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.

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

1981Craig David, Southhampton England, English singer (7 Days, Insomnia)

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)

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

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

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

1885Author Gerhart Hauptmann (22) weds Marie Thienemann

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

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

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

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

1951Leo Diegel, American golfer, dies of throat and lung cancer at 52

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