About May 6
May 6, 2023 is the 126th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 280 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.
- 1542 –Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
- 1659 –English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
- 1757 –Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years’ War.
- 1757 –English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- 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.
- 1835 –James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
- 1844 –The Glaciarium, the world’s first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
- 1935 –The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
- 1941 –At California’s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
- 1941 –The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1972 –Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
- 1981 –A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
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