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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 23, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,582,560 minutes 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 ‘hectaicosaheptagon’ 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 268 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 4,154 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 6 Historical Events
- 1536 –King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.
- 1941 –The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
- 1954 –Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1962 –St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
- 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.
- 1999 –First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly 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 by an animal rights activist.
- 2010 –The second largest intraday point swing in Dow Jones Industrial Average history occurs.
Who were born on May 6?
- 1769 –Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (d. 1834)
- 1797 –Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
- 1871 –Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- 1880 –Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
- 1906 –André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
- 1913 –Stewart Granger, English film actor (d. 1993)
- 1926 –Gilles Grégoire, Quebec politician, co-founder of the Parti Québécois (d. 2006)
- 1934 –Richard Shelby, American politician
- 1970 –Tristán Ulloa, Spanish actor
- 1980 –Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star
Who died on May 6?
- 1840 –Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian politician (b. 1792)
- 1862 –Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1939 –Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
- 1951 –Élie Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1869)
- 1984 –Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
- 1989 –Earl Blaik, former American football coach (b. 1897)
- 2002 –Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
- 2003 –Art Houtteman, baseball player (b. 1927)
- 2006 –Grant McLennan, Australian singer, songwriter (The Go-Betweens) (b. 1958)
- 2006 –Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
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