The way it was: Today in history - May 5
Throwback Thursday: A look back at events in history on May 5, including Secretariat winning the Kentucky Derby, Adolf Eichmann on trial and the first American in space.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Ciano, attend the big naval maneuvers held in honor of Hitler in Naples Bay, under the shadow of Vesuvius, Italy on May 5, 1938.
From left to right are: Joachim von Ribbentrop, Benito Mussolini, Count Ciano, Adolf Hitler, and extreme right, Rudolf Hess, Hitlerís representative in German State Affairs.
Liberation of Mauthausen
Emaciated prisoners sit outside the hospital barrack in Nazi Germany's Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II. The camp was liberated by the U.S. Army's 11th Armored division along with Gusen concentration camp on May 5, 1945.
This undated photo taken by Swiss prisoner Kurt Zalud, was later used as evidence in the Dachau war crimes trial. About six million jews died at the hands of Nazi Germany in the Holocaust.
Scopes trial
Druggist F.E. Robinson, left, and Rhea County School Superintendant Walter White remember the Scopes evolution trial they helped start in 1925 at Robinson's Drug Store in Dayton, Tennessee.
White swore out the warrant against John T. Scopes, a high school biology teacher, in a test case challenging Tennessee's law against teaching the theory of evolution in public schools. Robinson signed Scopes' bond. The note on the table reads: "At this table the Scopes Evolution Case was started May 5, 1925."
Telephone on reservation
Gay Head Indians of Martha's Vineyard wear their finery to greet the first dial telephones in the ancient settlement, May 5, 1955.
Here, Theola Hammett of the telephone company demonstrates a new method that makes communication easier on the reservation. Watching are Wampanoag Indians Napoleon Madison, center, and Donald Malanson.
Atomic explosion
This group of civil defense volunteers withstood the shock of the atomic explosion at Survival City, Nevada on May 5, 1955, from a distance of 3500 yards, less than two miles, protected only by a trench.
Included in the group of 19 were six women. They scrambled out of the trench about 10 seconds after the blast to watch the fireball and atomic cloud form.
First American in space
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., 37, peers into his Freedom 7 space capsule after it is recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and taken aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain, May 5, 1961.
The Freedom 7 (MR-7) spacecraft was launched by a Redstone vehicle at 9:34 a.m. EST. Shepard's flight, return from space, the splashdown at sea and recovery were seen on television by millions of viewers around the world. Shepard, 37, became the first American astronaut to journey into space after a 15' 22'' suborbital flight as part of Project Mercury.
Adolf Eichmann
Nazi leader and war criminal Adolf Eichmann takes an oath on May 5, 1961 during his trial in front of an Israeli Court in Jerusalem. He was sentenced to death and executed in Jerusalem on May 30, 1962.
Jimmy Hoffa in jail
Teamsters Union president James R. Hoffa leans on the window sill as he watches the scene outside his cell in Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 5, 1967.
Hoffa was being held in the Hamilton County jail awaiting a hearing on his fourth motion for a new trial on jury-tampering charges.
Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby
Secretariat, with jockey Ron Turcotte, passes the twin spires of Churchill Downs during the running of the 99th Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky on May 5, 1973. Secretariat won the 99th running of the derby, setting a record time that still stands. The horse went on to win on to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Loch Ness
This is frame 726 from an underwater camera, seen May 5, 1976, which was placed forty feet below the surface of Loch Ness purportedly showing evidence of the famous Loch Ness monster, according to scientist Charles W. Wyckoff of Needham, Mass.
"High Anxiety"
Actor-comedian Mel Brooks expresses his fear of heights during filming of his new movie "High Anxiety" in San Francisco, May 5, 1977.
Brooks directed, produced, co-wrote and acted in the movie.
Mobutu arrives in Rome
President Joseph Mobutu of Zaire after his arrival at Rome Airport in Italy on May 5, 1980.
Embassy siege
Sim Harris (L) the BBC-TV hostage jumps across the balcony of the Iranian embassy, covered by an army commando, after a bomb exploded and fire broke out on the first floor, May 5, 1980.
Six men stormed the embassy taking 26 people hostage, demanding the release of Arab prisoners from jails in a part of Iran. Shortly after the explosion the six-days siege came to an end and the hostages stumbled out. Three of the gunmen were killed in the shootout, with one other wounded and the other captured.
Bobby Sands death
A picture erected to honor Northern Ireland's Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in a Belfast jail in a protest over British rule, May 5, 1981.
Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army imprisoned in HM Prison Maze who led a hunger strike. Nine other hunger strikers died as well. Their deaths created a surge in recruitment and increased activity by the Provisional IRA.
"M. Butterfly"
Accountant Bernard Boursicot (L), shares the defendant's box with co-defendant and friend Chinese opera singer Shi Pei Pu at the court hall of the French Embassy in Beijing, May 5, 1986.
In 1982, French diplomat Boursicot was arrested for passing intelligence information from his embassy in Beijing to opera singer Shi Pei Pu. Boursicot claimed that he had spied in order to protect Pei Pu from punishment by the Chinese government when it was discovered that Pei Pu was his lover and the mother of his son. But an investigation revealed that Pei Pu was in fact a man.
Shi Pei pu was a male transvestite who somehow managed to perpetrate a 19-year hoax on the unsuspecting Boursicot by faking femininity and pregnancy and providing a baby boy who had been bought from a doctor in the Xinjiang region. French judges sentenced both to 6 years in prison.
The story was the inspiration for the play and film "M. Butterfly."
Bernhard Goetz - "Subway Vigilante"
Bernhard Goetz, 39, who is on trial for attempted murder, reckless endangerment, assault and weapons violations for shooting four youths who allegedly tried to mug him on a New York subway train in December 1984, arrives at New York State Supreme Court, May 5, 1987. All four were seriously wounded.
Goetz was found guilty on only one charge -- carrying an unlicensed firearm. He served eight months of a one-year sentence. One of the men shot, left a paraplegic as well as brain damaged, won a civil judgment on $43 million in 1986 against Goetz.
Oliver North - Iran-Contra scandal
With wife Betsy at his side Oliver North meets reporters in his lawyer's Washington office, May 5, 1989, after the jury found him guilty of illegally destroying documents, accepting an illegal gratuity and aiding and abetting in the obstruction of Congress.
North, a member of the National Security Council, was involved with the diversion of funds from arm sales to Iran to support the Contras in Nicaragua.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf and his wife Brenda wave from a motorcade during a tribute to the men and women of Operation Desert Storm in Tampa, Florida, May 5, 1991.
Norman Schwarzkopf - Desert Storm
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf raises his fist to the crowd during his homecoming salute, May 5, 1991 at Tampa Stadium. With Schwarzkopf is L-R Mickey Mouse, son Christian, wife Brenda, and his daughter Cindy.
Some 28,000 people packed the stadium to honor Schwarzkopf and the troops that served in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm
L.A. riots
Goung Kim, 64, carries her granddaughter Cheu Kim, 2, past a burned out shopping center near her Koreatown home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 5, 1992.
The riots happened as a result of the acquittal of four white L.A. police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King in 1991. More than 50 people were killed and over 2,000 injured. Many businesses were destroyed by the looting.
Michael Jackson on trial
Michael Jackson (C) arrives at court with his mother Katherine Jackson, (3rd-R) his father Joe Jackson (L) and his brother Jermaine Jackson (2nd-L) at the Santa Barbara County Superior Court for Michael Jackson's child molestation trial May 5, 2005 in Santa Maria, California.
Jackson was charged in a 10-count indictment with molesting a 13-year-old boy, plying him with liquor and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion at his Neverland Ranch. He was found not guilty.
Mildred Loving
Mildred Loving and her husband Richard P. Loving. The death of Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling, was announced by her daughter May 5, 2008. She died at her home in rural Milford on May 2. She was 68.