May 5

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[edit] Events

• 1945 - World War II:Prague uprising against the Germans.
• 1945 - World War II:Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.

[edit] Births

• 1818 - Karl Marx, Marxist (d. 1883)

[edit] Deaths

• 311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor
• 1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
• 1981 - Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoner (b. 1954)
• 1983 - Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)