May 6

Categories: Days

May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). There are 239 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

1527 - Spanish and German 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.
1757 - Battle of Prague - A Prussian army fought an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
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 Union.
1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends, with a defeat of the Army of the Potomac under General Joseph Hooker by Confederate troops under Stonewall Jackson.
1877 - Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1910 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
1935 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The 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 his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1941 - At California's March Field Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
1942 - World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1945 - World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
1945 - World War II: Begun the Prague Offensive (the last major battle of the Eastern Front)
1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in 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, 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 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 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 2002 Dutch national election campaign 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 World Wrestling Entertainment after losing a court battle with the World Wildlife Fund.
2004 - The last episode of the popular television sitcom Friends airs.