What are the important events that happened on May 6? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 6: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 6 is the 126th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 23, 2021 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 450,072 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaicosahexagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac 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 271 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,058 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 6 Historical Events
- 1861 –American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1935 –The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk.
- 1942 –World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
- 1972 –Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
- 1983 –The Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
- 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”.
- 1994 –Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
- 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 5th career start.
- 2010 –The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.
Who were born on May 6?
- 1880 –William J. Simmons, American Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1945)
- 1895 –Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)
- 1906 –André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
- 1913 –Stewart Granger, English film actor (d. 1993)
- 1915 –Orson Welles, American film director and actor (d. 1985)
- 1920 –Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fijian statesman (d. 2004)
- 1938 –Jean Garon, Quebec economist and politician
- 1944 –Anton Furst, American production designer (d. 1991)
- 1948 –Mary MacGregor, American singer
- 1970 –Tristán Ulloa, Spanish actor
Who died on May 6?
- 1502 –James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of Edward V of England and the Duke of York (b. c. 1450)
- 1596 –Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
- 1638 –Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
- 1757 –Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
- 1961 –Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
- 1973 –Ernest MacMillan, Canadian orchestra conductor and composer (b. 1893)
- 1984 –Bonner Pink, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1912)
- 1989 –Earl Blaik, former American football coach (b. 1897)
- 1992 –Jilly Rizzo, restaurateur (b. 1917)
- 1993 –Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
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