06 May History


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  • 1527    -    German troops begin sacking Rome. Libraries are destroyed, the Pope is captured and thousands are killed.
  • 1529    -    Babur defeats the Afgan Chiefs in the Battle of Ghagra, India.
  • 1682    -    King Louis XIV moves his court to Versailles, France.
  • 1856    -    U.S. Army troops from Fort Tejon and Fort Miller prepare to ride out to protect Keyesville, California, from Yokut Indian attack.
  • 1861    -    Arkansas becomes the ninth state to secede from the Union.
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  • 1862    -    Henry David Thoreau dies of tuberculosis at age 44.
  • 1864    -    In the second day of the Battle of Wilderness between Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet is wounded by his own men.
  • 1877    -    Chief Crazy Horse surrenders to U.S. troops in Nebraska.Crazy Horse brought General Custer to his end.
  • 1937    -    The dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
  • 1941    -    Bob Hope gives his first USO show at California's March Field.
  • 1942    -    General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese.
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  • 1944    -    The Red Army besieges and captures Sevastopol in the Crimea.
  • 1945    -    Axis Sally makes her final propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
  • 1954    -    British runner Roger Banister breaks the four minute mile.
  • 1960    -    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
  • 1962    -    The first nuclear warhead is fired from a Polaris submarine.
  • 1994    -    The Channel Tunnel linking England to France is officially opened.
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  • 06 May Birthdays

  • 973    -    Henry II, Holy Roman emperor.
  • 1740    -    John Penn, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  • 1758    -    Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary.
  • 1840    -    Frederick William Stowe, son of the Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • 1856    -    Robert Edward Peary, arctic explorer and the first man to reach the North Pole.
  • 1856    -    Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis.
  • 1868    -    Gaston Leroux, French novelist (The Phantom of the Opera).
  • 1888    -    Russell Stover, candy manufacturer.
  • 1895    -    Rudolph Valentino, actor, film icon.
  • 1902    -    Max Ophuls, film director (La Ronde, Lola Montes).
  • 1915    -    Orson Welles, actor, director, and writer (Citizen Kane).
  • 1931    -    Willie Mays, baseball player.
  • 1942    -    Ariel Dorfman, Chilean writer (Death and the Maiden).