May 06

Thursday 06, 2004:

The last episode of the popular television sitcom Friends airs.

Monday 06, 2002:

The World Wrestling Federation announces that they have changed their name to World Wrestling Entertainment after losing a court battle with the World Wildlife Fund.

Thursday 06, 1999:

In New York, a parole board votes to release Amy Fisher, in prison for the last 7 years for shooting her lover's wife.

Wednesday 06, 1998:

The body of former CIA director William Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he’d disappeared.

Friday 06, 1994:

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Channel Tunnel – a tunnel under the English Channel linking England and France for the first time since the end of the Great Ice Age.

Friday 06, 1988:

An airplane going from Namsos to Brønnøysund in Norway crashes into the side of the Torghatten mountain, and all the 36 passengers and crew dies.

Wednesday 06, 1981:

A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.

Friday 06, 1966:

Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England.

Thursday 06, 1954:

Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

Sunday 06, 1945:

1945 - World War II: Begun the Prague Offensive (the last major battle of the Eastern Front)

Wednesday 06, 1942:

World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.

Tuesday 06, 1941:

At California's March Field Bob Hope performs his first USO show.

Monday 06, 1940:

John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

Thursday 06, 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.

Monday 06, 1935:

New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Friday 06, 1910:

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

Monday 06, 1889:

The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

Sunday 06, 1877:

Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.

Wednesday 06, 1863:

American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends, with a defeat of the Army of the Potomac under General Joseph Hooker by Confederate troops under Stonewall Jackson.

Monday 06, 1861:

American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.

Wednesday 06, 1835:

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.

Monday 06, 1816:

The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.

Friday 06, 1757:

A Prussian army fought an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.

Wednesday 06, 1682:

Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.

Wednesday 06, 1536:

King Henry VIII orders Bible be placed in every church.

Friday 06, 1527:

Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance.

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