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May 5th ...
2011 - The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110....
1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta....
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.....
1949 – The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.....
International Midwives' Day.
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