THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 5

May 5 in history

1936 — The fall of Addis Ababa

5 May 1936 — Badoglio’s motorized column enters the capital; Mussolini proclaims empire from a balcony in Rome. In Geneva the exiled emperor warns: “It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”

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