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May 6
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May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (127th in
leap years). There are 239 days remaining.
Events
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1527 -
Spain Spanish and
Germany German troops sack
Rome; some consider this the end of the
Renaissance.
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1536 -
King Henry VIII orders Bibles be placed in every church.
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1682 -
Louis XIV of France moves his court to
Versailles.
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1757 -
Battle of Prague - A
Prussian army fought an
Austrian army in
Prague during the
Seven Years' War.
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1816 - The
American Bible Society is founded in
New York City.
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1835 -
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the ''
New York Herald''.
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1840 - The
Penny Black postage stamp is valid for use in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
*
1857 - The
British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose
Sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the
War of Independence of 1857 War of India's Independence.
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1861 -
American Civil War:
Arkansas secedes from the
United States Union.
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1863 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of Chancellorsville ends, with a defeat of the
Army of the Potomac under General
Joseph Hooker by
Confederate States of America Confederate troops under
Thomas J. Jackson Stonewall Jackson.
*
1877 - Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief
Crazy Horse (person) Crazy Horse of the
Oglala Sioux surrenders to
United States troops in
Nebraska.
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1889 - The
Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the
Exposition Universelle (1889) Universal Exposition in
Paris.
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1910 -
George V of the United Kingdom George V becomes King of the
United Kingdom upon the death of his father,
Edward VII of the United Kingdom Edward VII.
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1935 -
New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the
Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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1937 -
Hindenburg disaster: The
Germany German zeppelin ''Hindenburg'' catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at
Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
*
1940 -
John Steinbeck is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Pulitzer Prize for his novel ''
The Grapes of Wrath''.
*
1941 - At
California's March Field
Bob Hope performs his first
United Service Organizations USO show.
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1942 -
World War II: On
Corregidor, the last
United States American forces in the
Philippines surrender to the
Japanese.
*
1945 - World War II:
Axis Sally delivers her last
propaganda broadcast to
Allies Allied troops (first was on
December 11,
1941).
*1945 - World War II: The
Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
*
1954 -
Roger Bannister becomes the first person to
running run the
mile in
four minute mile under four minutes.
*
1966 -
Myra Hindley and
Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the
Moors Murders in
England.
*
1981 - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects
Maya Ying Lin's design for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
*
1988 - An airplane going from
Namsos to
Brønnøysund in
Norway crashes into the side of the
Torghatten mountain, killing all 36 passengers and crew.
*
1994 -
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President
François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the
Channel Tunnel – a
tunnel under the
English Channel linking
England and
France for the first time since the end of the
Great Ice Age.
*
1998 - The body of former CIA director
William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern
Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
*
1999 - In
New York, a parole board votes to release
Amy Fisher, in prison for the last 7 years for shooting her lover's wife.
*
2002 -
Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes Prime Minister of
France.
Births
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1397 -
Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d.
1450)
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1501 -
Pope Marcellus II (d.
1555)
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1574 -
Pope Innocent X (d.
1655)
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1638 -
Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d.
1696)
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1713 -
Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d.
1780)
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1758 -
André Masséna, French marshal (d.
1817)
*1758 -
Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary (d.
1794)
*
1769 -
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1824)
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1797 -
Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d.
1882)
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1856 -
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d.
1939)
*1856 -
Robert Peary, American explorer (d.
1920)
*
1861 -
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author (d.
1941)
*1861 -
Motilal Nehru, Indian freedom fighter (d.
1931)
*
1868 -
Gaston Leroux, French writer (d.
1927)
*1868 -
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d.
1918)
*
1871 -
Victor Grignard, French chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1935)
*1871 -
Christian Morgenstern, German author (d.
1914)
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1879 -
Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist and linguist (d.
1952)
*
1880 -
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d.
1938)
*
1882 -
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d.
1951)
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1895 -
Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d.
1926)
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1902 -
Harry Golden, American journalist (d.
1981)
*1902 -
Max Ophüls, German-born director (d.
1957)
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1904 -
Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d.
1984)
*1904 -
Harry Martinson, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1978)
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1906 -
Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d.
2005)
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1915 -
Orson Welles, American director (d.
1985)
*1915 -
Theodore H. White, American writer (d.
1986)
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1916 -
Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (d.
1997)
*
1920 -
Kamisese Mara Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first
Prime Minister of Fiji and
President of Fiji (d.
2004)
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1921 -
Erich Fried, German author (d.
1988)
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1929 -
Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1931 -
Willie Mays, baseball player
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1937 -
Rubin Carter Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, American boxer
*
1942 -
Rin Kaiho, professional
Go (board game) Go Go players player.
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1945 -
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American musician
*1945 -
Bob Seger, American singer
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1947 -
Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
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1948 -
Mary MacGregor, American singer
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1952 -
Michael O'Hare, American actor
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1953 -
Tony Blair,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1955 -
Tom Bergeron, American game show host
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1960 -
Roma Downey, Northern Irish actress
*1960 -
John Flansburgh, American musician (
They Might Be Giants)
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1961 -
George Clooney, American actor
*
1964 -
Dana Hill, American actress (d.
1996)
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1969 -
Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
*
1970 -
Melania Trump,
Slovenian
model and wife of
United States American real estate tycoon
Donald Trump
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1972 -
Martin Brodeur, Canadian hockey player
*
1980 -
Taebin, Korean R&B singer/rapper (
1TYM)
Deaths
*
680 -
Muawiyah I, caliph (b.
602)
*
1502 -
James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)
*
1555 -
Pope Marcellus II (b.
1501)
*
1596 -
Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b.
1535)
*
1620 -
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b.
1543)
*
1631 -
Robert Bruce Cotton, English poltician
*
1638 -
Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b.
1585)
*
1708 -
François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b.
1623)
*
1757 -
Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (b.
1705)
*1757 -
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b.
1683)
*1757 -
Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b.
1684)
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1859 -
Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b.
1769)
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1862 -
Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b.
1817)
*
1877 -
Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b.
1804)
*
1902 -
Bret Harte, American author (b.
1836)
*
1910 - King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b.
1841)
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1919 -
L. Frank Baum, American writer (b.
1856)
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1939 -
Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b.
1869)
*
1949 -
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1862)
*
1952 -
Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b.
1870)
*
1961 -
Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b.
1895)
*
1963 -
Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist (b.
1881)
*
1987 -
William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b.
[[1913)
*
1992 -
Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b.
1901)
*
1995 -
Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b.
1956)
*1995 -
Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Braganca (b.
1907)
*
2002 -
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b.
1948)
*
2004 -
Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher (b.
1912)
Holidays and observances
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Feast day of
Saint Justus in the
Roman Catholic Church
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St. George - Ä?urÄ‘evdan, the most famous
Serbian
slava.
External links
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BBC: On This Day
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''The New York Times'': On This Day
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May 5 –
May 7 –
April 6 –
June 6 –
historical anniversaries listing of all days
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