Today in History - History - May 5th

1904Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Phila A's (3-0)

1646King Charles I surrenders at Scotland

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

1992Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection

1944Gandhi freed from prison

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

1991Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic

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

1966Willie Mays hit his 512th HR

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

1885Author Gerhart Hauptmann (22) weds Marie Thienemann

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

1761Jurist William Blackstone (37) weds Sarah Clitherow

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

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