Today in History - History - May 5th

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

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

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

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

1966Willie Mays hit his 512th HR

1992Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection

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

1834Charles Darwin's expedition begins at Rio Santa Cruz

1991Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic

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

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)

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

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

1761Jurist William Blackstone (37) weds Sarah Clitherow

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

1885Author Gerhart Hauptmann (22) weds Marie Thienemann

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

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

1959Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, dies at 80

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