May 4-1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
May 5:1992 - Wolfenstein 3D is released, the first-ever first-person shooter computer game
1994 - American Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore as punishment for spray-painting two cars.
1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.