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May 5

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In 1494, during his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus first sighted Jamaica.

In 1818, the political philosopher Karl Marx was born in Prussia.

In 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler when he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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Actress Alice Faye  (1915)

Singer Tammy Wynette  (1942)

Comedian -actor Michael Palin  (1943)

Actress Tina Yothers  (1973)

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"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to 
overlook."
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William James, American psychologist and philosopher 
(1842-1910)