Historical Events on May 6

Events 1 - 200 of 201

• 1312 Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna
• 1432 Renaissance masterpiece The Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck is consecrated at St Bravo's Cathedral, Belgium, commissioned by wealthy merchants

• 1598 Albert VII Archduke of Austria and Isabella, daughter of Philip II of Spain granted rule of the Habsburg Netherlands (after they marry)
• 1604 Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina
• 1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit organizes the purchase of Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods, believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape
• 1644 Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
• 1672 Brandenburg monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands

• 1733 First international boxing match: Local fighter Bob Whittaker beats “The Venetian Gondolier”, Tito di Carni at James Figg's academy amphitheatre in Marylebone, London
• 1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
• 1757 Battle of Prague: Frederick II of Prussia's forces defeat Austrian army
• 1787 1st African American Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston

• 1804 Suriname sold to Great Britain (until Feb 1816)

• 1844 Johan Thorbecke argues general right to vote
• 1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
• 1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"

• 1851 New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
• 1851 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts
• 1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)

• 1860 San Francisco Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club forms
• 1861 Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th states to secede from US
• 1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, fought in Virginia begins (Battle of Port Walthall Junction), Union victory (US Civil War)

• 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration

• 1882 Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed and killed during the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin
• 1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
• 1896 Samuel Pierpont Langley flies his unpiloted Number 5 aircraft using a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River, USA. The aircraft travels almost 3/4 of a mile - ten times further than any previous heavier-than-air flying machine.
• 1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
• 1902 Zulu assault at Holkrantz, South Africa
• 1903 Chicago White Sox commit 11 errors against Detroit Tigers but win 10-9 at South Side Park. Chicago
• 1904 American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
• 1906 "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street, San Francisco allows United Railroads to run electric streetcars

• 1909 Indian nationalist Sri Aurobindo acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case in Calcutta, India

• 1913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, northern Albania
• 1914 British House of Lords rejects women's suffrage

• 1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
• 1915 The Allies on Cape Helles launch three attacks to enlarge their beachheads; after terrible losses, they advance about three miles
• 1916 Belgian troops march into Kigali, German East Africa
• 1917 St Louis Browns pitcher Bob Groom no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
• 1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German South West Africa to South Africa
• 1921 Teams from the National Association Football League and the Southern New England Soccer League merge to form the American Soccer League (ASL); collapses 1933

• 1929 AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
• 1929 New York to San Francisco footrace begins
• 1933 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement

• 1935 KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
• 1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)

• 1938 Dutch court sentences writer Maurits Dekker to 50 days imprisonment for "offending a friendly head of state" - Adolf Hitler

• 1942 Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
• 1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
• 1944 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington swaps calls with KOMO
• 1945 General Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
• 1945 World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
• 1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)"
• 1951 Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
• 1953 MLB St. Louis Browns Alva "Bobo" Holloman, in his first start game as starting pitcher, no-hits visiting Philadelphia A's, 6-0

• 1955 West Germany joins NATO
• 1956 Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header
• 1956 WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting

• 1957 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV

• 1959 Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing vessels
• 1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Jakarta
• 1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramon Mercader) freed from prison after serving 19 years 8 months in Mexico

• 1961 Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party
• 1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
• 1962 Antonio Segni elected President of Italy
• 1962 Pathet Lao breaks cease fire and conquer Nam Tha Laos
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
• 1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
• 1964 Joe Orton's play "Entertaining Mr Sloan" premieres in London
• 1965 Bill Lawry (210) & Bob Simpson (201) complete record opening stand of 382 in Australia's 1st innings, drawn 4th Test v West Indies in Bridgetown

• 1966 Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
• 1966 Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
• 1966 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England

• 1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania
• 1967 Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22)
• 1967 Zakir Husain elected 1st Muslim President of India

• 1968 Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets NL record of 225th consecutive errorless game (108 chances consecutively since June 16, 1964)
• 1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
• 1968 Street battle between students & troops in Paris, 1,000 injured

• 1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mt Everest
• 1972 Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order
• 1973 1st WHA championship, New England Whalers beat Win Jets, 4 games to 1

• 1974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
• 1974 Oakland A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3 loss to Baltimore, ending his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games
• 1974 Scotland Yard recovers stolen Johannes Vermeer oil painting "The Guitar Player" at the cemetery of St Bartholomew-the-Great, in London's financial
• 1974 Smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium (4,149)

• 1975 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
• 1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
• 1975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
• 1976 An earthquake strikes Friuli in Northern Italy, causes 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages
• 1977 Parlophone releases live album "The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl" in UK; recorded during 1964 and 1965 tours, sound quality was of sub-par quality, but released to combat bootleg versions
• 1978 South Africa military goes into Angola
• 1979 American Fred Markham (22) sets a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph (50.8 mph) over 200 meter course
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1981 US expels Libyan diplomats

• 1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
• 1985 17th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (51-B): Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB

• 1986 Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
• 1986 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• 1987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice

• 1987 Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
• 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988 Doughnutgate incident: NJ Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended
• 1988 Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs v Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes

• 1991 Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees
• 1991 Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9"
• 1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
• 1992 NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
• 1993 STS-55 (Columbia) lands

• 1994 Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on The Tonight Show

• 1994 US House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban
• 1995 Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
• 1996 Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with government of President Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war
• 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford, Connecticut on WCCC 106.9 FM
• 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 NHL Hartford Whalers become Carolina Hurricanes
• 1997 Rick Pitino becomes coach of Boston Celtics
• 1997 The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history
• 1997 US Army Staff Sgt Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence in military prison for 18 counts of rape, and other offenses (part of the Aberdeen Scandal)

• 2002 "The Good Stuff" single released by Kenny Chesney (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)
• 2002 Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed at close range with an illegally purchased pistol by an animal rights activist upset with Fortuyn's policies

• 2002 The Rolling Stones fly a yellow blimp emblazoned with their logo at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, NYC to announce forthcoming international tour

• 2008 Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.

• 2011 The US Department of Labor states that 244,000 jobs were created in April, with 235,000 added in February and 221,000 in March, but unemployment continues to grow, reaching 9%

• 2012 Greek parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures
• 2013 10 people are killed and 26 people are injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
• 2013 13 people are killed in clashes with Bangladeshi police in Dhaka
• 2013 15 people are killed and 50 are injured after a bomb detonates at a political rally in Pakistan
• 2013 Brazilian neobank Nubank founded in Brazil by David Vélez, Cristina Junqueira and Edward Wible
• 2013 The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales
• 2013 Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list
• 2014 Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, releases a 57 minute video boasting about abducting schoolgirls in Nigeria
• 2017 84 abducted schoolgirls released in exchange for Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria
• 2017 Bus crash in Arusha region, Tanzania kills 35
• 2017 France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory
• 2019 French telecom company Orange and its former CEO with other executives go on trial in France for psychological harassment of their staff that unions claim resulted in 19 suicides and 12 other attempts
• 2019 One million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction according to a major new UN report
• 2019 Pablo Sandoval becomes second MLB player since 1900 to throw a scoreless outing, hit a home run and steal a base in the same game in SF Giants' 12-4 loss in Cincinnati; joins Christy Mathewson 1905
• 2019 Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei announces a moratorium on the death penalty for gay sex and adultery after worldwide condemnation over new Sharia laws
• 2019 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Judd Trump wins his first world crown beating John Higgins of Scotland, 18-9
• 2020 At least 90,000 healthcare workers worldwide infected by COVID-19, more than 260 nurses have died according to International Council of Nurses
• 2020 Former intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi sworn in as new Iraqi Prime Minister, 3rd to be nominated in six months
• 2020 Irish organization repays a 170 year old favor, raising over $2 million (to date) for US Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation badly affected by COVID-19. In 1840s Choctaw Nation sent $170 to aid Irish potato famine.
• 2020 UK becomes the first European country to report over 30,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19
• 2021 Armed police raid on drug traffickers kills 25 in cities deadliest ever, in a favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2022 Explosion at the five-star Hotel Saratoga due to suspected a gas leak in Havana, Cuba kills at least 35 people [1]
• 2023 Canadian province Alberta declares a state of emergency over unprecedented wildfires, more than 100, that have forced the evacuation of 25,000 people [1]

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