Today in Military History:
May 5
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1646 | Charles I surrendered to the Parliamentarians ending the English Civil War. |
| | 1804 | British naval squadron and 2,000 troops captured the French stronghold of Surinam in the West Indies. |
| | 1916 | U.S. Marines land in Dominican Republic -- stay till 1924. |
| | 1936 | Italians take Addis Ababa from the Abyssinians. |
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