On May 5, 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France, died in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
On the Fifth of May, 1945, a Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army killed six people near Bly, Oregon.
On May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization declared the end of the global health emergency that was the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The deaths eighty years ago from the balloon bomb were not publicly reported at the time. News of the bombs was suppressed, so that the Japanese would be unaware of any successes, deem the programme a failure, and discontinue it.