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Historical Events on May 6

1527

Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
1536

The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
1536

King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.
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.
1682

Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
1757

Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
1757

The end of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740-1757).
1757

English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
1782

Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
1801

Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
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
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.
1861

American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1863

American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.
1877

Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
1882

Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
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.
1902

Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President.
1906

The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23rd by the Julian calendar).
1910

George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
1915

Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
1916

Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
1916

Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while attempting to call upon the people to rise up against the French, and later being deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
1933

The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
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.
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.
1945

World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1949

EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
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 after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
1975

During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut to commemorate 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
1976

The 6.5 Mw Friuli earthquake affected Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 900-978 dead and 1,700-2,400 injured.
1983

The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts.
1984

103 Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
1994

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
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.
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 fifth career start.
1999

The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
2001

During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002

Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
2010

In just 36 minutes DOW Jones plunged nearly a 1000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
2013

Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio.

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