Historical Events for 5th May 2023

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1874 - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1915 - German U-20 captures and sinks Britsih schooner Earl of Lathom
1948 - 1st squadron of jet aircraft aboard a carrier
1952 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk for this novel "The Caine Mutiny"
1955 - West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1964 - Separatists riot in Quebec
1987 - France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
2008 - American/Columbia Records releases "Home Before Dark", the twenty-seventh studio album by Neil Diamond; tops charts in US, UK and NZ
2018 - Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product
2022 - WHO study of excess deaths worldwide says 15 million more people have died than normal, far above the official COVID-19 death toll of 6 million

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