May 5 in history: • 1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, which pardoned the people of Scotland for any crimes committed during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, was proclaimed in Edinburgh. → go there • 1936 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italian troops (pictured) captured the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa unopposed. → go there • 1961 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Alan Shepard made a sub-orbital spaceflight on board Freedom 7, becoming the second person to travel into outer space. → go there • 2020 – Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National Telecommunications Commission after Congress failed to renew its franchise granted in 1995. → go there Born 1479: Guru Amar Das Wiki link Died 1582: Charlotte of Bourbon Wiki link Born 1883: Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler Wiki link Born 1984: Chris Birchall Wiki link Pictured: Italian troops in Addis Ababa.