TMN Staff<\/p>\n
May 5, there are 5775 hours left in this year.<\/p>\n
1809<\/strong> 1821<\/strong> 1891<\/strong> 1925<\/strong> 1961<\/strong> 1981<\/strong> 2004<\/strong> <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1813<\/strong>– Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher\/religious thinker<\/p>\n 1818<\/strong>– Karl Marx, philosopher, co-author of The Communist Manifesto<\/em><\/p>\n 1914<\/strong>– Tyrone Power, actor, Mark of Zorro (1940)<\/em><\/p>\n 1921<\/strong>– Arthur L. Schawlow, physicist, co-inventor of the laser<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong>– Tammy Wynette, country singer, Stand By Your Man (1968)<\/em><\/p>\n 1988<\/strong>– Adele, Grammy Award winning singer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN Staff May 5, there are 5775 hours left in this year. 1809 Mary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman granted a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26768,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765\/revisions\/26768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMary Kies of South Killingly, Conn., became the first woman granted a patent. The patent was for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.<\/p>\n
\nNapoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena.<\/p>\n
\nCarnegie Hall (then known as Music Hall) opened in New York City. Peter Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.<\/p>\n
\nJohn Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching Darwinism.<\/p>\n
\nAlan Shepard became the first American in space.<\/p>\n
\nBobby Sands of the Irish Republican Army died in a prison hospital on the 66th day of his hunger strike.<\/p>\n
\nPablo Picasso’s “Boy with a Pipe” became the most expensive painting ever sold.<\/p>\n