HISTORY At A Glance

TODAY is Thursday, May 5, the 125th day of 2022. There are 240 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

1950 Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King

Rama IX of Thailand.

1955 West Germany gains full sovereignty.

1961 The Mercury program: MercuryRedstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. 1980 Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.

1987 Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America.

1994 The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the NagornoKarabakh conflict.

2010 Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.

2014 11 people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.

2014 22 people die after two boats carrying illegal immigrants collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.