Today in History - History - May 5th

1834Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz

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

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

1966Willie Mays hit his 512th HR

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

1646King Charles I surrenders at Scotland

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

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

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

1944Gandhi freed from prison

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)

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

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

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

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

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

1761Jurist William Blackstone (37) weds Sarah Clitherow

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

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

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

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

1959Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, dies at 80