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On this day, May.05……

1821 – Napoleon dies on Saint Helena.

1859 – 1st use of “insanity plea” to prove innocence.

1881 – Louis Pasteur tested inoculations against anthrax upon an ox, several cows and 25 sheep. His experiment proved successful, and was a milestone in the prevention of this fatal disease that affected cattle and sheep.

1930 – Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo between England and Australia, a distance of 11,000 miles.

1933 – 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger.

1936 – A U.S. patent was issued for the first bottle with a screw cap and a pour lip to Edward A.

1944 – Gandhi freed from prison (pic credit-UPI.com)
1945 – The only WW II deaths of civilians on the mainland of the U.S. resulted from a Japanese bomb dropped over Gearhart Mountain, Oregon by an unmanned balloon. It was disturbed and exploded, killing those civilians who discovered it during a picnic.

1955 – Indian parliament accepts Hindu divorce.

VV 1963 – The world’s first human liver transplant was performed in America by Dr. Thomas E. Starlz. His patient, a 48-year-old man, survived for 22 days. He had also performed the world’s first spleen transplant four months earlier in the same year.

1971 – India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 million Bangladeshi refugees.

2015 – Scientists announce the discovery of the oldest & most distant galaxy known to man, EGS-zs8-1.
2021 – Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook upheld by the company’s Oversight Board for a further six months.
Born….

(Photo credit- Sondeep Shankar/Getty Images)

1479 – Guru Amar Das Ji, 3rd Sikh Guru.

1916 – Zail Singh, 7th President of India.

RIP….

1989 – Naval Tata, famous industrialist.

2006 – Naushad Ali, composer and producer.

Titbits….

1865 – 1st U.S. train robbery (North Bend Ohio).

{Compiled by Lt. Gen. (R) Raj Kadyan)