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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.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome ; some consider this the end of the Renaissance . 147 Swiss Guards , including their commander, died fighting the forces of Charles V during the Sack of Rome in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo .
1536 - King Henry VIII orders translated Bibles be placed in every church.
1542 - Francis Xavier reached Old Goa , the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
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 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 India's Independence .
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi 's Mille set sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies .
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 - Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska .
1882 - The Congress of the U.S.A. pass the Chinese Exclusion Act .
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: The Prague Offensive , the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes .
1962 - St. Martín de Porres becomes canonized by Pope John XXIII .
1966 - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England .
1976 - An earthquake strikes Friuli , causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
1981 - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin 's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
1983 - The Hitler diaries were revealed as a hoax when experts examined the books and concluded that they were fake.
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 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel .
1996 - The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland , eight days after he disappeared.
2002 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes Prime Minister of France .
2002 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by a left-wing extremist.
2004 - US TV series Friends Births 1397 - Sejong the Great of Joseon , ruler of Korea (d. 1450 )
1501 - Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555 )
1574 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655 )
1638 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell , First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696 )
1713 - Charles Batteux , French philosopher (d. 1780 )
1758 - André Masséna , French marshal (d. 1817 )
1758 - Maximilien Robespierre , French Revolutionary (d. 1794 )
1769 - Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824 )
1769 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette , French mathematician (d. 1834 )
1797 - Joseph Brackett , American religious leader and composer (d. 1882 )
1800 - Roman Sanguszko , Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881 )
1856 - Sigmund Freud , Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939 )
1856 - Robert Peary , American explorer (d. 1920 )
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 , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935 )
1871 - Christian Morgenstern , German author (d. 1914 )
1872 - Willem de Sitter , Dutch scientist (d. 1934 )
1879 - Bedrich Hrozny , Czech orientalist (d. 1952 )
1880 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , German painter (d. 1938 )
1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (d. 1951 )
1895 - Rudolph Valentino , Italian actor (d. 1926 )
1895 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza , Brazilian writer (d. 1974 )
1895 - Fidél Pálffy , Hungarian Nazi (d. 1946 )
1899 - Billy Cotton , British entertainer (d. 1969 )
1902 - Harry Golden , American journalist (d. 1981 )
1902 - Max Ophüls , German-born director (d. 1957 )
1903 - Toots Shor , New York restaurateur (d. 1977 )
1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais , Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984 )
1904 - Harry Martinson , Nobel laureate (d. 1978 )
1906 - Enrique Laguerre , Puerto Rican writer (d. 2005 )
1915 - Orson Welles , American director (d. 1985 )
1915 - Theodore White , American writer (d. 1986 )
1916 - Robert H. Dicke , American physicist (d. 1997 )
1920 - Kamisese Mara , 1st Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (d. 2004 )
1920 - Ross Hunter , American film producer (d. 1996 )
1921 - Erich Fried , German author (d. 1988 )
1923 - Vladimir Etush , Russian actor
1924 - Denny Wright , British guitarist (d. 1992 )
1924 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford , American socialite (d. 2006 )
1929 - Paul Lauterbur , Nobel laureate
1931 - Willie Mays , American baseball player
1937 - Rubin Carter , American boxer
1942 - Rin Kaiho , professional Go player
1944 - Anton Furst , American production designer (d. 1991 )
1945 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore , American musician
1945 - Bob Seger , American singer
1947 - Martha Nussbaum , American philosopher
1948 - Mary MacGregor , American singer
1952 - Michael O'Hare , American actor
1952 - Christian Clavier , French actor
1953 - Tony Blair , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1953 - Graeme Souness , Scottish footballer/manager
1955 - Tom Bergeron , American game show host
1960 - Roma Downey , Northern Irish actress
1960 - John Flansburgh , American musician
1961 - George Clooney , American actor
1964 - Dana Hill , American actress (d. 1996 )
1969 - Jim Magilton , Northern Irish footballer
1972 - Martin Brodeur , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 - David Connolly , England-born Irish footballer
1978 - John Abraham , American football player
1978 - Alexander Fedorov , Russian bodybuilder
1980 - Taebin , Korean singer (1TYM )
1980 - Scott Colton , American professional wrestler
1980 - Kate Lawler , English reality TV star
1980 - Ricardo Oliveira , Brazilian footballer
1980 - Kelly van der Veer , Dutch reality TV star
1985 - Chris Paul , American basketball player
1987 - Moon Geun-young , South Korean actress
Deaths 680 - Muawiyah I , caliph (b. 602 )
1502 - James Tyrrell , alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)
1596 - Giaches de Wert , Flemish composer (b. 1535 )
1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital , Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543 )
1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton , English politician
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 )
1859 - Alexander von Humboldt , German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769 )
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 )
1919 - L. Frank Baum , American writer (b. 1856 )
1939 - Konstantin Somov , Russian writer (b. 1869 )
1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck , Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862 )
1951 - Élie Cartan , French mathematician (b. 1869 )
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 )
1967 - Zhou Zuoren , Chinese writer (b. 1885 )
1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko , Russian general (b. 1879 )
1984 - Bonner Pink , Conservative Party politician
1984 - Mary Cain , Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904 )
1987 - William Casey , American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913 )
1989 - Earl Blaik , Former American football coach (b. 1897 )
1990 - Charles Farrell , American actor (b. 1901 )
1992 - Marlene Dietrich , German actress (b. 1901 )
1993 - Ann Todd , English actress (b. 1909 )
1995 - Noel Brotherston , Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956 )
1995 - Hilda Toledano (b. 1907 )
2002 - Pim Fortuyn , Dutch politician (b. 1948 )
2003 - Art Houtteman , baseball player (b. 1927 )
2004 - Philip Kapleau , American Zen teacher (b. 1912 )
2006 - Lillian Asplund , last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906 )
2006 - Lorne Saxberg , Canadian television journalist (b. 1958 )
2006 - Shigeru Kayano , Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926 )
2006 - Grant McLennan , co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens (b. 1958 )
Holidays and observances Feast days in the Roman Catholic Church
St George's Day — Đurđevdan (Serbian), Gergyovden (Bulgarian), Giorgoba (Georgian) the most famous
Serbian slava , the most celebrated namesday in
Bulgaria , and one of the two
Giorgoba holidays in
Georgia
Commemoration of the following
Orthodox Christian saints :
Barbaros the Robber in Thessaly
Barbarus the soldier, with Bacchus, Callimachus and Dionysios
Righteous Job the Long-suffering (OT)
New Martyr Elias Ardunis
New Martyr Demetrios of the Peloponnesus (d. 1803 )
Micah of Radonezh
Sinaites of Serbia
Seraphim the Struggler of Mt. Domvu
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