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
- 1536 –King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
- 1757 –English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- 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 becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1844 –The Glaciarium, the world’s first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
- 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 –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.
- 1935 –The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
- 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.
- 1972 –Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
- 1983 –The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
- 1994 –Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
- 1996 –The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
- 1997 –The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank’s 300-year history.
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