Today in History for 5th May 2025

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Historical Events

1814 - British attack Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York
1908 - 34th Kentucky Derby: Arthur Pickens aboard 66-1 chance Stone Street wins in muddy track conditions; 2:15.20 slowest Derby in history
1938 - MLB Philadelphia Phillies Harold Kelleher pitcher faces 16 batters in 6th, as Cubs score 12 runs, both marks are NL records off one hurler in a single inning
1980 - Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends as the SAS and police storm the building
1990 - 35th Eurovision Song Contest: Toto Cutugno for Italy wins singing "Insieme: 1992" in Zagreb

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Famous Birthdays

1680 - Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire (d. 1750)
1873 - Leon Czolgosz, American anarchist and assassin of US President William McKinley, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1901)
1904 - Gordon Richards, British jockey (26 x British flat racing Champion Jockey; 4,870 race wins), born in Donnington Wood, Telford (d. 1986)
1921 - Sonja Oosterman, Dutch pop singer and lyricist (De Marketentsters en De Musketiers), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2008)
1936 - Patrick Gowers, British choral and film score composer (Viri Galilaei; Hamlet; Smiley's People), born in Islington, England (d. 2014)

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Famous Deaths

1678 - Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet, spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70
1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist, dies at 50
1864 - John Marshall Jones, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 43
1996 - Bernard Benjamin Gillis [Kyanski] British jurist (High Court , 1964-80), dies at 89
2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (Tour de France 1938, 48; Giro d'Italia 1936-7, 46), dies of a heart attack at 85

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