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. {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Apr – '''May''' – Jun |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |colspan=6| | 1 |- style="text-align:center;" | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |- style="text-align:center;" | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |- style="text-align:center;" | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |- style="text-align:center;" | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |- style="text-align:center;" | 30 | 31 ||colspan="5"| |- style="background:#ccccff" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangementAll days |} ==Events== *1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. *1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles. *1835 - James Gordon Bennett publishes the first issue of the ''New York Herald''. *1861 - American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union. *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). *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. *1994 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President Franois 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. *1999 - In New York, a parole board votes to release Amy Fisher who had been in prison for 7 years for shooting her lover's wife. *2002 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes Prime Minister of France. *2004 - President Bush apologizes for the humiliation suffered by Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. troops. * 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 - Andr Massna, French soldier (d. 1817) *1856 - Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis (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 - Christian Morgenstern, author (d. 1914) *1879 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952) *1880 - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, painter (d. 1938) *1882 - Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951) *1895 - Rudolph Valentino, actor (d. 1926) *1902 - Max Ophls, director (d. 1957) *1902 - Harry Golden, U.S. journalist (d. 1981) *1904 - Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method (d. 1984) *1915 - Orson Welles, director (d. 1985) * 1915 - Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986) *1920 - Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996) * 1920 - Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2004) *1921 - Erich Fried, author (d. 1988) *1925 - Hanns Dieter Hsch, cabaretist *1931 - Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Famer *1937 - Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, boxer *1945 - Bob Seger, rock music singer *1945 - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician *1947 - Martha Nussbaum, philosopher *1953 - Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom *1961 - George Clooney, actor *1970 - George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader ==Deaths== *680 - Muawiyah I, Umayyad caliph (b. 602) *1502 - James Tyrrell, executed; alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (b. c. 1450) *1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501) *1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769) *1862 - Henry David Thoreau, author and philosopher (b. 1817) *1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1839) *1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841) *1911 - George Maledon, hangman of 60 men *1919 - L. Frank Baum, writer (b. 1856) *1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, poet, playwright, essayist (b. 1862) *1952 - Maria Montessori, educator (b. 1870) *1987 - William Casey, head of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1913) *1992 - Marlene Dietrich, actress (b. 1901) *2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, murdered by Volkert van der G. (b. 1948) ==Holidays and observances== ---- May 5 – May 7 – April 6 – June 6 – listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} af:05-06 ar:6 مايو bg:6 май ca:6 de maig cs:6. květen cy:6 Mai da:6. maj de:6. Mai et:6. mai el:6 Μαΐου es:6 de mayo eo:6-a de majo eu:Maiatzaren 6 fr:6 mai fy:6 maaie ko:5월 6일 hr:6. svibnja is:6. ma it:6 maggio he:6 במאי lt:Gegužės 6 lb:6. 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