On This Day
5 May
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1479 Guru Amar Das, third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism, was born. He became Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at age 73.
- 1883 Surendranath Banerjee, one of the founding fathers of the Indian national movement, became the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a journalist.
- 1905 Anna Chandi, first female judge and then High Court judge in India, was born. She was, in fact, one of the first female judges in the British Empire next to Emily Murphy.
- 1916 Giani Zail Singh, seventh president of India, serving from 1982 to 1987, and the first Sikh to hold the office, was born.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1260 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
- 1809 Mary Kies became the first woman awarded a US patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
- 1818 Karl Marx, German philosopher, was born in Prussia. He argued that history was marked by various stages of class struggle and capitalism which had overcome feudalism would in turn be overcome by socialism and the elimination of private property. He and Friedrich Engels founded Communism. Together they wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Capital.
- 1821 Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France (1799-1815), died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
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