May 5 in Firearms History

2 dates for gun owners on May 5

  • Birthday 1
  • Anniversary 1
  1. Birthday1879 · 147 years ago

    Will Rogers Born

  2. Anniversary1961 · 65 years ago

    Alan Shepard “Freedom 7” 1st American in space

    May 5, 1961

    NASA astronaut Alan Shepard  aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket and Orion Capsule

    A Marine helicopter picked up Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard and his Freedom 7 capsule in the Atlantic Ocean after his first American sub-orbital flight