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
- 1536 –King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
- 1757 –Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years’ War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1889 –The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1972 –Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
- 1976 –An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1999 –First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held.
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