
May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). There are 239 days remaining. ==Events== *1527 - Spain and Germany troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. *1536 - King Henry VIII orders Bible be placed in every church. *1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. *1816 - The American Bible Society is founded in New York City. *1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the ''New York Herald''. *1861 - American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the United States. *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 troops under Thomas J. Jackson. *1877 - Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse (person) of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. *1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris. *1910 - George V of the United Kingdom becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII of the United Kingdom. *1935 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA). *1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The Germany 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 for his novel ''The Grapes of Wrath''. *1941 - At California's March Field Bob Hope performs his first United Service Organizations show. *1942 - World War II: On Corregidor, the last United States forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. *1945 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allies troops (first was on December 11, 1941). *1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to running the mile in four minute mile. *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, and all the 36 passengers and crew dies. *1994 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Chunnel – 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 was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he’d 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 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated during the Dutch general election, 2002 by Volkert van der Graaf. *2002 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes Prime Minister of France. *2002 - The ''World Wrestling Federation'' announces that they have changed their name to WWE after losing a court battle with the WWF. *2004 - The last episode of the popular television sitcom ''Friends'' airs. ==Births== *1501 - Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555) *1574 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655) *1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, revolutionary (d. 1794) *1758 - André Masséna, French soldier (d. 1817) *1769 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824) *1797 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882) *1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939) *1856 - Robert Peary, explorer (d. 1920) *1861 - Rabindranath Tagore, author (d. 1941) *1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918) *1868 - Gaston Leroux, writer (d. 1927) *1871 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) *1871 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914) *1879 - Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952) *1880 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938) *1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1951) *1895 - Rudolph Valentino, actor (d. 1926) *1902 - Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957) *1902 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981) *1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984) *1906 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. June 16, 2005) *1915 - Orson Welles, director (d. 1985) *1915 - Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986) *1920 - Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996) *1920 - Kamisese Mara, first List of Prime Ministers of Fiji and later List of Presidents of Fiji of Fiji (d. 2004) *1921 - Erich Fried, author (d. 1988) *1925 - Hanns Dieter Husch, cabaretist *1931 - Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Famer *1937 - Rubin Carter, boxer *1945 - Bob Seger, Rock and roll singer *1945 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician *1947 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher *1952 - Michael O'Hare, American actor *1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom *1955 - Tom Bergeron, game show host *1960 - John Flansburgh, musician *1961 - George Clooney, actor *1964 - Dana Hill, actress *1970 - George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader *1972 - Martin Brodeur, hockey player *1980 - Kate Lawler, Big Brother (UK TV series) contestant ==Deaths== *680 - Muawiyah I, Umayyad caliph (b. 602) *1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) *1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501) *1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769) *1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817) *1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836) *1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841) *1911 - George Maledon, American judge *1919 - L. Frank Baum, writer (b. 1856) *1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (b. 1862) *1952 - Maria Montessori, educator (b. 1870) *1961 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895) *1987 - William Casey, American Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1913) *1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901) *2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (assassinated) (b. 1948) ==Holidays and observances== * Yom HaShoah in Israel (2005) * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: ** Evodius (d. 69) ** Saint Justus (d. 168) ** Maurelius (d. 542) ** Bonizella Piccolomini Cacciaconti ** Saint Prudence (d. 1492) ** Edward Jones and Anthony Middleton, martyrs of England and Wales. *No Pants Day in 2005 == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.thisdaythatyear.com/may/people6.htm ThisDayThatYear.com on May 6] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/5/6 Today in History: May 6] ---- May 5 – May 7 – April 6 – June 6 – historical anniversaries ml:മേയ് 6 th:6 พฤษภาคม
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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== *1527 - Spain and Germany troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. *1536 - King Henry VIII orders Bible be placed in every church. *1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. *1816 - The American Bible Society is founded in New York City. *1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the ''New York Herald''. *1861 - American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the United States. *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 troops under Thomas J. Jackson. *1877 - Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse (person) of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska. *1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris. *1910 - George V of the United Kingdom becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII of the United Kingdom. *1935 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA). *1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The Germany 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 for his novel ''The Grapes of Wrath''. *1941 - At California's March Field Bob Hope performs his first United Service Organizations show. *1942 - World War II: On Corregidor, the last United States forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. *1945 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allies troops (first was on December 11, 1941). *1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to running the mile in four minute mile. *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, and all the 36 passengers and crew dies. *1994 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Chunnel – 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 was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he’d 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 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated during the Dutch general election, 2002 by Volkert van der Graaf. *2002 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes Prime Minister of France. *2002 - The ''World Wrestling Federation'' announces that they have changed their name to WWE after losing a court battle with the WWF. *2004 - The last episode of the popular television sitcom ''Friends'' airs. ==Births== *1501 - Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555) *1574 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655) *1758 - Maximilien Robespierre, revolutionary (d. 1794) *1758 - André Masséna, French soldier (d. 1817) *1769 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824) *1797 - Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882) *1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939) *1856 - Robert Peary, explorer (d. 1920) *1861 - Rabindranath Tagore, author (d. 1941) *1868 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918) *1868 - Gaston Leroux, writer (d. 1927) *1871 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935) *1871 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914) *1879 - Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952) *1880 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938) *1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1951) *1895 - Rudolph Valentino, actor (d. 1926) *1902 - Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957) *1902 - Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981) *1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984) *1906 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (d. June 16, 2005) *1915 - Orson Welles, director (d. 1985) *1915 - Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986) *1920 - Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996) *1920 - Kamisese Mara, first List of Prime Ministers of Fiji and later List of Presidents of Fiji of Fiji (d. 2004) *1921 - Erich Fried, author (d. 1988) *1925 - Hanns Dieter Husch, cabaretist *1931 - Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Famer *1937 - Rubin Carter, boxer *1945 - Bob Seger, Rock and roll singer *1945 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician *1947 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher *1952 - Michael O'Hare, American actor *1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom *1955 - Tom Bergeron, game show host *1960 - John Flansburgh, musician *1961 - George Clooney, actor *1964 - Dana Hill, actress *1970 - George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader *1972 - Martin Brodeur, hockey player *1980 - Kate Lawler, Big Brother (UK TV series) contestant ==Deaths== *680 - Muawiyah I, Umayyad caliph (b. 602) *1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) *1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501) *1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769) *1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817) *1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836) *1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841) *1911 - George Maledon, American judge *1919 - L. Frank Baum, writer (b. 1856) *1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (b. 1862) *1952 - Maria Montessori, educator (b. 1870) *1961 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895) *1987 - William Casey, American Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1913) *1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901) *2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (assassinated) (b. 1948) ==Holidays and observances== * Yom HaShoah in Israel (2005) * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: ** Evodius (d. 69) ** Saint Justus (d. 168) ** Maurelius (d. 542) ** Bonizella Piccolomini Cacciaconti ** Saint Prudence (d. 1492) ** Edward Jones and Anthony Middleton, martyrs of England and Wales. *No Pants Day in 2005 == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.thisdaythatyear.com/may/people6.htm ThisDayThatYear.com on May 6] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/5/6 Today in History: May 6] ---- May 5 – May 7 – April 6 – June 6 – historical anniversaries ml:മേയ് 6 th:6 พฤษภาคม
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