Today in History Today is Thursday, May 5, the 125th day of 2022. There are 240 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. On this In 1494, during his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica. In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena. In 1925, schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set asi
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