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 "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now 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.
By May9th and 10th, the tide slowly changed to more sunny days and less rain, except for a brief spell of thunderstorms the evening of the 9th over Llano and Gillespie Counties and from showers and thunderstorms on the 14th to the 15th and part of the 16th.
May2005 had severe weather events on the 8th, 9th, 14th, 15th, 28th, 29th, and in the predawn hours of the 30th.
May 1st to 8th was a cloudy period in the month, as southwest winds aloft carried multiple layers of high clouds over the area, while storm tracks to the north enhanced the usual low clouds over the area.
Word was sent to the 9th, also heavily engaged but holding in the face of slightly less-furious attacks on the left, that the withdrawal of the 38th was a planned one and not a cause for undue alarm.
On 6 May, after an ominous build-up of strength, the Chinese Communist Forces launched a massive offensive against the 2d Infantry Division and two Republic of Korea divisions of the United States X Corps with a force of an estimated 96,000 troops.
The Third Battalion of the 9th Infantry was alerted the evening of the 17th to prepare for commitment in the sector of the 38th.
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