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Thailand: Coronation Day
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Bosnia-and-Herzegovina: Orthodox Easter Monday
Belarus: Orthodox Easter
Netherlands: Liberation Day
Serbia: Orthodox Easter
Macedonia: Orthodox Easter
Romania: Orthodox Easter
Palau: Elderly Day
Guyana: Arrival Day

Events

1215 - Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta
1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
1640 - King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1762 - Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1789 - In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1809 - The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
1821 - Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1835 - In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1862 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
1865 - In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1886 - The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.
1891 - The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1904 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1916 - U.S. marines invade the Dominican Republic.
1920 - authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1921 - Coco Chanel introduces Chanel No. 5
1925 - Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1925 - The government of South Africa declares Afrikaans an official language
1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1940 - World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1945 - World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate
1945 - World War II: Prague uprising against German occupying forces in Czechoslovakia
1945 - World War II: US Army troops liberate the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria
1945 - World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, President of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all German U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
1949 - The Treaty of London establishes the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as the first European institution working for European integration.
1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej crowns himself King Rama IX of Thailand.
1955 - West Germany gains full sovereignty.
1961 - The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
1964 - The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day
1973 - Sunderland A.F.C. win the F.A. Cup Final at Wembley with a 1-0 victory over Leeds United.
1980 - Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1981 - Bobby Sands Dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1987 - Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1992 - Ratification by Alabama brings into effect the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
1994 - The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
2005 - A United Kingdom general election results in the re-election of Tony Blair's Labour Party for a third consecutive term.
2006 - The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
2007 - Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.

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1 JanuaryNew Year's Day (ახალი წელი, Akhali ts'eli)
7 JanuaryOrthodox Christmas
19 JanuaryBaptism Day of our Lord Jesus Christ (ნათლისღება, Nathlisgheba)
3 MarchMother's Day (დედის დღე, Dedis dghe)
8 MarchInternational Women's Day (ქალთა საერთაშორისო დღე, Kalta saertachoriso dghe)
9 AprilDay of National Unity (ეროვნული ერთიანობის დღე, Erovnouli ertianobis dghe)
6 MayOrthodox Easter Monday (აღდგომა, Aghdgoma)
9 MayVictory Day (ფაშიზმზე გამარჯვების დღე, Phachizmze gamardjvebis dghe)
12 MaySaint Andrea the First Day (წმინდა მოციქულის ანდრია პირველწოდებულის საქართველოში შემოსვლის დღე, Ts'minda motsiqhoulis andreys pirvelts'odeboulis sakartvelochi chemosvla dghe)
26 MayIndependence Day (დამოუკიდებლობის დღე, Damouk'ideblobis dghe)
28 AugustAssumption of Mary (მარიამობა, Mariamoba)
14 OctoberDay of Svetitskhoveli Cathedral (in Mtskheta) (სვეტიცხოვლობა, Svetistskhovloba)
23 NovemberSaint George's Day (გიორგობა, Guiorgoba)
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Georgia
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Georgia - FlagGeorgia - Coat of arms
Georgia - Location
Capital: Tbilisi
Official languages: Georgian, Abkhaz (in Abkhazia), Ossetic (in South Ossetia), Russian (in Abkhazia and South Ossetia)
Government: Presidential republic
Currency: Lari (GEL)
Population: 4 630 841
Area: 69 700 km²
Religion: Orthodox Church
Time Zone: UTC +4
Auto Code: GE
Internet TLD: .ge
Calling code: +995
Corporate Income Tax: 15,00%
Personal Income Tax: 20,00%
Value Added Tax: 18,00%
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