On May 5, 2009, Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu.
Today is Sunday, May 5, the 126th day of 2024. There are 240 days left in the year.On May 5, 2009, Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu.In 1494, during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica.In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution.
In 1981, Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food. In 2016, former Los Angeles trash collector Lonnie Franklin Jr. was convicted of 10 counts of murder in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings that targeted poor, young Black women over two decades.
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