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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1857 –The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
- 1910 –George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- 1935 –New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
- 1945 –World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
- 1954 –Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1981 –A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
- 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.
- 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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