Today is Sunday, May 5, the 126th day of 2024. There are 240 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 5, 2009, Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu.
On this date:
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...