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May 6
is the 126th day of the year (127th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 239 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1191
- King
Richard I of England
lands in
Cyprus
during the
Third Crusade
.
- 1527
? Spanish and German troops sack
Rome
, in what is seen by some to be the end of the
Renaissance
.
- 1536
- The
Siege of Cuzco
starts, in which
Incan
forces attempt to re-take the
city
from the
Spanish
.
- 1536
-
Henry VIII of England
orders that
English language
Bibles
should be placed in every
church
.
- 1542
- St.
Francis Xavier
reaches Old
Goa
, capital city of what was then known as
Portuguese India
.
- 1659
- English Restoration: A faction of the
army
removes
Richard Cromwell
as Lord Protector and re-instates the
Rump Parliament
.
- 1682
? King
Louis XIV of France
moves into the
Versailles
Palace.
- 1757
-
Battle of Prague
: A
Prussian
army
fights an
Austrian
army
in
Prague
during the
Seven Years' War
.
- 1782
- Building work begins on the Grand Palace, residence of the
Kings
of
Siam
, present-day
Thailand
, in
Bangkok
.
- 1816
- The
American Bible Society
is founded.
- 1835
-
James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
publishes the first issue of the
New York Herald
.
- 1840
? The
Penny Black
postage stamp becomes valid in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
.
- 1844
- The
Glaciarum
, the world's first mechanically frozen
ice
rink, opens.
- 1861
?
Arkansas
secedes from the
Union
.
- 1861
?
Richmond, Virginia
is chosen as the capital city of the
Confederate States of America
.
- 1863
-
American Civil War
: The
Battle of Chancellorsville
ends with the
Confederates
defeating the
Army of the Potomac
.
- 1882
?
United States Congress
passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1889
? The
Eiffel Tower
is opened to the public as the World Exposition in
Paris
begins.
- 1902
- British
ship
Carmorta
sinks in a
cyclone
in
Burma
's
Irrawaddy
Delta, killing all 739 people on board.
- 1910
?
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
dies.
George V
succeeds him as king.
- 1916
- 21
Lebanese
nationalists
are executed in Martyrs' Square,
Beirut
by
Jamal Pasha
.
- 1919
- The Third Anglo-
Afghan
War
begins.
- 1930
? An
earthquake
in present-day
Iran
kills 2,500 people.
- 1935
- In the
US
, the
Works Progress Administration
is created.
- 1937
?
LZ 129 Hindenburg
catches on fire while landing in
New Jersey
, killing 36 people.
- 1940
-
John Steinbeck
is given the
Pulitzer Prize
for his
novel
The Grapes of Wrath
.
- 1945
-
World War II
: In the last part of the war, the
Prague Offensive
begins.
- 1954
?
Roger Bannister
becomes the first person to run a
mile
in less than 4 minutes.
- 1954
?
Alfredo Stroessner
comes to power in
Paraguay
, after leading a military coup against
Federico Chaves
.
- 1966
? In the
UK
,
Ian Brady
and
Myra Hindley
are sentenced to life in prison for the Moors murders.
- 1976
? An
earthquake
in
Friuli
,
Italy
kills 989 people and destroys entire
villages
.
- 1983
? The so-called
Hitler
diaries are found to be a hoax.
- 1991
-
Time
magazine
publishes an article in which
Scientology
is strongly criticized.
- 1994
? The
Euro Tunnel
between the
UK
and
France
, opens. Queen
Elizabeth II
of the
United Kingdom
and
President of France
Francois Mitterrand
jointly open it.
- 1996
?
CIA
director
William Colby
is found dead on a
Maryland
riverbank, eight days after his disappearance.
- 1998
?
Kazakhstan
's President
Nursultan Nazarbayev
moves his seat of
government
from
Almaty
to Akmola, which is renamed
Astana
.
- 1999
? The first elections to the
Scottish Parliament
and the
Welsh Assembly
are held.
- 2001
?
Dennis Tito
, the first space tourist, returns to
Earth
.
- 2001
-
Pope John Paul II
becomes the first
Pope
to set foot in a
Mosque
, in
Damascus
.
- 2002
?
Marc Ravalomanana
becomes
President
of
Madagascar
.
- 2002
? Dutch politician
Pim Fortuyn
is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
- 2002
-
Jacques Chirac
announces that
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
would become
Prime Minister of France
.
- 2004
- The series finale of
Friends
is shown on
NBC
in the
United States
, receiving over 52 million viewers.
- 2007
?
Nicolas Sarkozy
is elected
President of France
.
- 2010
? The
United Kingdom general election, 2010
is held. It ends in a hung
parliament
, where no party has an overall majority. On
May 11
, the Conservatives under
David Cameron
and Liberal Democrats under
Nick Clegg
agree to form a coalition
government
.
- 2010
-
Caroline Lucas
becomes the first
MP
from the
Green Party of England and Wales
.
- 2011
? After the previous day's election the
Scottish National Party
under
Alex Salmond
wins an overall majority in the
Scottish Parliament
, with 69 out of the 129 seats.
- 2012
?
Francois Hollande
is elected
President of France
, as
Nicolas Sarkozy
is voted out of office after one term.
- 2012
? The
parliamentary
election
in
Greece
ends in an inconclusive result, as both main parties lose votes for supporting austerity measures.
- 2013
-
Ariel Castro kidnappings
:
Michelle Knight
,
Amanda Berry
(and her child by Castro), and
Gina DeJesus
are found in
Ariel Castro
's house in
Cleveland, Ohio
, where they had been held captive for around ten years.
- 2023
- The
coronation
of
Charles III
is performed at
Westminster Abbey
.
- 973
-
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
(d.
1024
)
- 1397
-
Sejong the Great
of
Korea
(d.
1450
)
- 1405
?
Skanderbeg
, national hero of
Albania
(d.
1468
)
- 1501
?
Pope Marcellus II
(d.
1555
)
- 1562
?
Pietro Bernini
, Italian
sculptor
(d.
1629
)
- 1574
?
Pope Innocent X
(d.
1655
)
- 1606
?
Lorenzo Lippi
, Italian
poet
and painter (d.
1665
)
- 1680
-
Jean-Baptiste Stuck
, Italian-French
composer
and
cellist
(d.
1755
)
- 1713
-
Charles Batteux
, French
philosopher
(d.
1780
)
- 1714
-
Anton Raaff
, German
tenor
(d.
1797
)
- 1758
?
Maximilien de Robespierre
, French revolutionary (d.
1794
)
- 1758
?
Andre Massena
, French soldier (d.
1817
)
- 1769
?
Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany
(d.
1824
)
- 1769
-
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
, French
mathematician
(d.
1834
)
- 1792
-
Georg Ohm
, German
mathematician
(d.
1872
)
- 1797
?
Joseph Brackett
, American religious leader and composer (d.
1882
)
- 1800
-
Roman Sanguszko
, Polish
aristocrat
and
general
(d.
1881
)
- 1801
-
Jose Joaquin Perez
,
President of Chile
(d.
1889
)
- 1820
?
Robert O'Hara Burke
, explorer of
Australia
(d.
1861
)
- 1851
-
Arisitide Bruant
, French singer and composer (d.
1925
)
- 1853
-
Philander C. Knox
, American politician (d.
1921
)
- 1856
?
Sigmund Freud
, Austrian psychiatrist (d.
1939
)
- 1856
?
Robert Peary
, American
Arctic
explorer (d.
1920
)
- 1861
?
Motilal Nehru
, Indian politician (d.
1931
)
- 1864
-
Eugenio Tosi
,
Archbishop
of
Milan
(d.
1929
)
- 1866
?
Joannes Patursson
,
Faroese
poet
and
politician
(d.
1946
)
- 1868
?
Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia
(d.
1918
),
May 18
in
Gregorian calendar
- 1868
?
Gaston Leroux
, French writer (d.
1927
)
- 1870
-
Walter Rutherford
, Scottish
golfer
(d.
1936
)
- 1871
?
Victor Grignard
, French chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (d.
1935
)
- 1871
?
Christian Morgenstern
, German writer (d.
1914
)
- 1872
-
Willem de Sitter
, Dutch
mathematician
,
physicist
and
astronomer
(d.
1934
)
- 1872
-
Djemal Pasha
,
Ottoman Empire
politician (d.
1922
)
- 1879
?
Bed?ich Hrozny
, Czech orientalist and linguist (d.
1952
)
- 1880
?
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
, German painter (d.
1938
)
- 1882
?
Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany
, heir of Kaiser
Wilhelm II
(d.
1951
)
- 1889
-
Lyubov Popova
, Russian artist and designer (d.
1924
)
- 1895
?
Rudolph Valentino
, Italian-American actor (d.
1926
)
- 1899
-
Billy Cotton
, English
bandleader
(d.
1969
)
- 1902
?
Max Ophuls
, director (d.
1957
)
- 1902
?
Harry Golden
, American journalist (d.
1981
)
- 1904
?
Moshe Feldenkrais
, founder of the
Feldenkrais method
(d.
1984
)
- 1904
?
Harry Martinson
, Swedish writer (d.
1978
)
- 1906
?
Andre Weil
, French
mathematician
(d.
1998
)
- 1913
?
Stewart Granger
, British actor (d.
1993
)
- 1915
?
Orson Welles
, American director (d.
1985
)
- 1915
?
Theodore H. White
, writer (d.
1986
)
- 1916
-
Robert H. Dicke
, American
physicist
(d.
1997
)
- 1917
?
Jilly Rizzo
, American restaurateur and entertainer (d.
1992
)
- 1919
-
Alejandro Finisterre
, Spanish inventor of
table football
(d.
2007
)
- 1919
-
Andre Guelfi
, French racing driver (d.
2016
)
- 1920
?
Ross Hunter
, producer (d.
1996
)
- 1920
?
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
, first
Prime Minister
and later
President
of
Fiji
(d.
2004
)
- 1921
?
Erich Fried
, Austrian writer (d.
1988
)
- 1922
-
Vladimir Etush
, Russian actor (d.
2019
)
- 1923
?
Galyani Vadhana
, Thai princess (d.
2008
)
- 1923
-
Harry Watson
, Canadian
ice hockey
player and
coach
(d.
2002
)
- 1924
-
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
, sister of
John F. Kennedy
(d.
2006
)
- 1924
-
Nestor Basterretxea
, Basque artist (d.
2014
)
- 1925
?
Hanns Dieter Husch
, German cabaretist (d.
2005
)
- 1926
-
Gilles Gregoire
, Canadian politician (d.
2006
)
- 1929
?
Paul Lauterbur
, American
chemist
(d.
2007
)
- 1930
-
Philippe Beaussant
, French
musicologist
and writer (d.
2016
)
- 1931
?
Willie Mays
, American
Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1932
-
Ahmet Haxhiu
, Albanian political activist (d.
1994
)
- 1932
-
Fritz Lichtenhahn
, Swiss actor (d.
2017
)
- 1934
-
Richard Shelby
, American politician
- 1937
?
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
, American boxer (d.
2014
)
- 1938
-
Jean Garon
, Canadian
politician
,
lawyer
and academic (d.
2014
)
- 1940
-
Angela Carter
, English writer (d.
1992
)
- 1941
-
Ivica Osim
, Bosnian
footballer
- 1943
?
Andreas Baader
, member of the
Red Army Faction
(d.
1977
)
- 1944
?
Masanori Murakami
, Japanese
baseball
player
- 1945
?
Bob Seger
,
rock music
singer
- 1945
?
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
, musician
- 1946
-
Susan Brown
, English
actress
- 1947
?
Alan Dale
,
New Zealand
actor
- 1947
?
Martha Nussbaum
, American
philosopher
- 1951
?
Samuel K. Doe
,
Liberian
military officer and politician (d.
1990
)
- 1952
-
Gerrit Salm
, Dutch politician
- 1953
?
Tony Blair
, former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1953
?
Graeme Souness
, Scottish
footballer
and manager
- 1953
-
Alexander Akimov
, Ukrainian
Chernobyl
worker (d.
1986
)
- 1954
-
Tom Abernethy
, American
basketball
player
- 1955
?
Tom Bergeron
, American game show host
- 1955
?
John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness
, British politician
- 1958
-
Lorita Flores
, Spanish
singer
and
actress
- 1958
-
Jan Leyers
, Belgian
singer-songwriter
and
television
personality
- 1958
-
Randall Stout
, American
architect
(d.
2014
)
- 1959
-
Charles Hendry
, English politician
- 1959
-
Hiroyuki Sakashita
, Japanese
footballer
- 1960
?
John Flansburgh
, musician
- 1961
?
George Clooney
, American actor,
movie director
and screenwriter
- 1961
-
Tom Hunter
, Scottish businessman
- 1961
-
Gina Riley
, Australian
actress
,
singer
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1963
-
Alessandra Ferri
, Italian ballerina
- 1964
?
Dana Hill
, American actress (d.
1996
)
- 1965
-
Leslie Hope
, Canadian actress
- 1968
-
Worku Bikila
,
Ethiopian
long-distance runner
- 1968
-
Shin Hae-chul
, South Korean
music
performer and
radio
DJ
- 1968
-
Laetitia Sadier
, French
singer
and
keyboardist
- 1969
-
Vlad Filat
, former
Prime minister
of
Moldova
- 1970
?
George Rivas
,
Texas 7
ringleader
- 1971
?
Chris Shiflett
, American
guitarist
(
Foo Fighters
)
- 1972
?
Martin Brodeur
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1972
-
Naoko Takahashi
, Japanese runner
- 1977
?
Christophe Brandt
, Belgian cyclist
- 1977
-
Nozomi Hiroyama
, Japanese
footballer
- 1978
?
Aleksandr Fyodorov
, Russian bodybuilder
- 1980
?
Dimitris Diamantidis
, Greek
basketball
player
- 1980
-
Wolke Hegenbarth
, German actress
- 1980
?
Kate Lawler
, British
Big Brother
contestant
- 1982
-
Duri Camichel
, Swiss
ice hockey
player (d.
2015
)
- 1983
?
Daniel Alves
, Brazilian footballer
- 1983
?
Adrianne Palicki
, American actress
- 1983
?
Gabourey Sidibe
, American
actress
- 1983
?
Raquel Zimmermann
, Brazilian model
- 1984
-
Anton Babchuk
, Ukrainian-Russian
ice hockey
player
- 1985
?
Tanerau Latimer
, New Zealand
rugby
player
- 1986
-
Goran Dragic
,
Slovenian
basketball
player
- 1987
-
Moon Geun-young
, South Korean actress
- 1987
-
Dries Mertens
, Belgian footballer
- 1987
-
Meek Mill
, American
rapper
- 1989
-
Dominika Cibulkova
,
Slovakian
tennis
player
- 1990
-
Masato Kudo
, Japanese
footballer
- 1990
?
Caitlin Yankowskas
, American figure skater
- 1991
-
Harriet Lee
, British Paralympic swimmer
- 1992
-
Brendan Gallagher
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1992
-
Takashi Usami
, Japanese
footballer
- 1993
-
Naomi Scott
, British actress, singer and musician
- 1995
-
Marko Pjaca
, Croatian
footballer
- 1996
-
Dominic Scott Kay
, American child actor
- 2002
-
Emily Alyn Lind
, American child actress
- 2019
-
Archie Mountbatten-Windsor
, son of the
Duke
and
Duchess of Sussex
- 1471
-
Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset
, English
commander
(b.
1438
)
- 1475
?
Dieric Bouts
,
Flemish
painter (b.
1415
)
- 1502
-
James Tyrrell
, English
knight
(b.
1450
)
- 1596
-
Giaches de Wert
,
Flemish
composer (b.
1535
)
- 1638
?
Cornelius Jansen
, French
bishop
and religious reformer (b.
1585
)
- 1692
?
Nathaniel Lee
, English
playwright
(b.
1653
)
- 1757
-
Battle of Prague
:
- 1757
-
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
, English politician (b.
1683
)
- 1840
?
Francisco de Paula Santander
,
Colombian
President and independence leader (b.
1792
)
- 1859
?
Alexander von Humboldt
, German naturalist and explorer (b.
1769
)
- 1862
?
Henry David Thoreau
, American writer and philosopher (b.
1817
)
- 1872
?
George Robert Gray
, British
zoologist
(b.
1808
)
- 1873
-
Jose Antonio Baez
,
President
of
Venezuela
(b.
1790
)
- 1877
?
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
, Finnish poet (b.
1804
)
- 1902
-
Bret Harte
, American writer (b.
1836
)
- 1910
? King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
(b.
1841
)
- 1913
?
Alexandros Schinas
, Greek anarchist (b.
1870
)
- 1919
?
L. Frank Baum
, American writer (b.
1856
)
- 1939
-
Konstantin Somov
, Russian writer (b.
1869
)
- 1949
?
Maurice Maeterlinck
, Belgian writer (b.
1862
)
- 1951
?
Hans Andrias Djurhuus
, Faroese poet (b.
1883
)
- 1952
?
Maria Montessori
, Italian educator (b.
1870
)
- 1959
-
Ragnar Nurkse
, Estonian-American
economist
and academic (b.
1897
)
- 1961
?
Lucian Blaga
, Romanian
poet
,
playwright
and
philosopher
(b.
1895
)
- 1967
?
Zhou Zuoren
, Chinese writer (b.
1885
)
- 1970
-
Aleksandr Rodzyanko
, Russian general (b.
1897
)
- 1975
-
Jozsef Mindszenty
, Hungarian
cardinal
(b.
1892
)
- 1985
-
Julie Vega
, Filipino actress and singer (b.
1968
)
- 1987
?
William Casey
, American
CIA
director (b.
1913
)
- 1990
-
Charles Farrell
, American actor (b.
1901
)
- 1992
?
Marlene Dietrich
, German actress (b.
1901
)
- 1992
?
Jilly Rizzo
, American restaurateur and entertainer (b.
1917
)
- 1998
-
Chatichai Choonhavan
,
Prime minister
of
Thailand
(b.
1920
)
- 2002
?
Pim Fortuyn
, Dutch politician (b.
1948
)
- 2002
?
Otis Blackwell
, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b.
1932
)
- 2003
-
Art Houtteman
, American
baseball
player (b.
1927
)
- 2004
-
Virginia Capers
, American actress (b.
1925
)
- 2006
?
Shigeru Kayano
, Japanese
Ainu
activist (b.
1926
)
- 2006
?
Lillian Asplund
,
RMS Titanic
survivor (b.
1906
)
- 2012
-
George Lindsey
, American actor, comedian, and writer (b.
1928
)
- 2013
-
Giulio Andreotti
, former
Prime Minister
of
Italy
(b.
1919
)
- 2014
-
Cornelius Gurlitt
, German art collector (b.
1932
)
- 2014
-
Wil Albeda
, Dutch politician (b.
1925
)
- 2014
-
Farley Mowat
, Canadian
writer
and
environmentalist
(b.
1921
)
- 2014
-
Jimmy Ellis
, American boxer (b.
1940
)
- 2014
-
Bill Dana
, American
pilot
and
astronaut
(b.
1930
)
- 2015
-
Errol Brown
, Jamaican-British singer (b.
1943
)
- 2015
-
Jim Wright
, American
politician
, former
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
(b.
1922
)
- 2015
-
Jerome Cooper
, American
jazz
drummer (b.
1946
)
- 2016
-
Hannes Bauer
, German trombonist (b.
1954
)
- 2016
-
Patrick Ekeng
, Cameroonian
footballer
(b.
1990
)
- 2016
-
David Hall
, American politician,
Governor
of
Oklahoma
(b.
1930
)
- 2016
-
Margot Honecker
, German politician (b.
1927
)
- 2016
-
Valeriy Zuyev
, Ukrainian
footballer
(b.
1952
)
- 2016
-
Nico de Bree
, Dutch
footballer
(b.
1944
)
- 2016
-
Reg Grundy
, Australian television producer (b.
1923
)
- 2016
-
Candye Kane
, American singer-songwriter and pornographic actress (b.
1961
)
- 2016
-
Chris Mitchell
, Scottish
footballer
(b.
1988
)
- 2017
-
Steven Holcomb
, American bobsledder (b.
1980
)
- 2017
-
Val Jellay
, Australian actress (b.
1927
)
- 2017
-
Rais Khan
, Pakistani
sitarist
(b.
1939
)
- 2017
-
Marshall Julum Shakya
, Nepalese politician (b.
1940
)
- 2017
-
Min Bahadur Sherchan
, Nepalese mountaineer (b.
1931
)
- 2018
-
Cirilo Bautista
, Filipino writer (b.
1941
)
- 2018
-
Paolo Ferrari
, Italian actor (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Tarcisio Gitti
, Italian politician (b.
1936
)
- 2018
-
Khaled Mohieddin
, Egyptian army general and politician (b.
1922
)
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1947
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1954
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