About May 6
May 6, 2025 is the 126th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 287 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 –English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1877 –Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
- 1882 –The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1882 –Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.
- 1910 –George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- 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.
- 1941 –The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
- 1954 –Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1960 –More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
- 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.
- 1984 –103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul
- 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.
- 1999 –First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held.
- 2004 –Aslan Abashidze, leader of Georgia’s autonomous republic of Adjara resigns after public protests and months of stalemate with the central authorities.
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