About May 6
May 6, 2024 is the 127th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 268 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 6
- 1527 –Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
- 1757 –Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years’ War.
- 1801 –Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
- 1816 –The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1882 –Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
- 1935 –New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
- 1935 –The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
- 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.
- 1960 –More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
- 1962 –St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
- 1966 –Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.
- 1989 –Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the “coaster wars”.
- 1996 –The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
- 1998 –Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his 5th career start.
- 2002 –Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
- 2010 –The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.
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