1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He would later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.
1726 - Five men who were arrested during the raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1926 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of his diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "European Union.
1980 - In Florida, a Liberian freighter named the Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400_foot section of the bridge collapsed.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agreed to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries. The standoff started on April 2.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
May9, 2006 at 6:30 pm at the Goethe-Institut Washington, 812 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001; admission free, RSVP to 202-289-1200 ext.
May 10, 2006 at 7:00 pm at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 3900 Spring of Freedom Street, NW, Washington, DC 20008; admission free.
May 11, 2006 at 8:00 pm at the Slovak Embassy, 3523 International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008; admission: Optional donation of $5 to Friends of Slovakia at the door; RSVP: information@slovakembassy-us.org.
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