On This Day for May 5 - Mexican victory in the Battle of Puebla, Karl Marx is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-05 10:04 Updated: 2020-05-05 10:04 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 05

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Karl Marx

FEATURED EVENT

1862

Mexican victory in the Battle of Puebla

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2001: American publisher Clifton Keith Hillegass, the creator of the popular series of literary study guides known as Cliff Notes, died in Nebraska. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about literary classics.]

1988: English pop singer and songwriter Adele —whose soulful emotive voice and traditionally crafted songs made her one of the most broadly popular performers of her generation—was born. [Test your knowledge of pop music.]

1973: American racehorse Secretariat (1970–89) won the Kentucky Derby en route to capturing the U.S. Triple Crown , which also includes the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. [Can you identify these well-known horses?]

1961: Alan Shepard, Jr., made a 15-minute suborbital flight in the Freedom 7 spacecraft, becoming the first U.S. astronaut to travel in space. [Take our famous astronauts and cosmonauts quiz.]

1904: American baseball pitcher Cy Young registered the first perfect game (no player reaching first base) of the modern era, for the Boston Americans (later Red Sox ) against the Philadelphia (later Oakland) Athletics. [See whether Cy Young made our list of the greatest baseball players of all time.]

1813: Danish religious philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, regarded as the founder of existentialist philosophy, was born in Copenhagen. [ Take our quiz about odd facts concerning philosophers.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1988

Adele
British singer-songwriter

1989

Chris Brown
American singer

1818

Karl Marx
German philosopher

1813

Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher

1914

Tyrone Power
American actor