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Events from History on May 06

1312 : Pope Clement V closes Council of Vienna
1476 : Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg & duke Charles the Stout
1476 : arrange marriage of their children
1527 : Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance
1529 : Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans & Bengals
1536 : King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
1598 : Arch duke Albrecht & Isabella become monarch of Southern Netherlands
1626 : Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets
1642 : Ville Marie (Montreal) forms
1644 : Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil
1648 : Battle at Z¢lty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir
1672 : Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
1733 : 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni
1753 : French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
1757 : Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army
1794 : Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
1804 : Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816)
1833 : John Deere makes 1st steel plow
1835 : 1st edition of NY Herald (price 1›)
1840 : 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain)
1844 : Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote
1848 : Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
1851 : Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 : Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
1851 : New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
1851 : SF Chamber of Commerce starts
1853 : 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
1860 : SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club forms
1861 : Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th state to secede from US
1861 : Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
1864 : Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA
1864 : Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured
1864 : General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta Georgia
1882 : Chinese Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
1882 : Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
1889 : Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed
1890 : Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
1891 : Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
1902 : British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
1902 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (BG)
1902 : Zulu assault at Holkrantz South-Africa
1903 : Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
1904 : American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
1906 : "Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St SF
1910 : King George V ascends to British throne
1913 : King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
1914 : British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
1915 : Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
1915 : German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1915 : Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
1916 : Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
1917 : St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
1919 : Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is
1919 : assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa
1921 : American Soccer League forms
1929 : AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
1929 : NY to SF footrace begins
1933 : Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
1934 : triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, & B Walters
1935 : British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee
1935 : KTM-AM in Los Angeles Calif changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
1935 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
1937 : Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
1938 : Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a
1938 : friendly head of state" (Hitler)
1939 : 1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's "Jeanne d'Arc Ouch B-cher"
1940 : Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
1941 : Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
1942 : Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1943 : British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
1944 : KJR-AM in Seattle Wash swaps calls with KOMO
1945 : Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1946 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)"
1948 : "Sally" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
1950 : "Great to Be Alive" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 perfs
1950 : Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1951 : Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
1953 : Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Phila A's, 6-0
1954 : Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
1955 : West Germany joins NATO
1956 : Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header
1956 : WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 : Italian govt of Segni resigns
1957 : Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
1957 : Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
1959 : Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
1960 : English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
1960 : Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960 : Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
1960 : Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ram¢n Mercader), freed in Mexico
1961 : Omer Vanaudenhove chosen chairman of Belgium Liberal Party
1962 : 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
1962 : Antonio Segni elected president of Italy
1962 : Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1963 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
1964 : Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloan," premieres in London
1965 : Lawry & Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies
1966 : Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin
1967 : 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
1967 : Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India
1968 : Battle between students & troops in Paris, 1000 injured
1968 : Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets NL record of 225th consecutive
1968 : Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
1970 : Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
1974 : A's pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in 1st inning of 6-3
1974 : Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
1974 : Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
1974 : Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
1974 : W German chancellor W Brandt resigns
1975 : 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska
1975 : Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
1975 : Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means only
1977 : "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl," released in UK
1978 : South Africa military goes into Angola
1979 : Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
1979 : Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout," premieres in NYC
1979 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 : "Inacent Black" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 14 performances
1981 : Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired & replaced by Rene Lachemann
1981 : US expels Libyan diplomats
1984 : Balt Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for cycle
1985 : 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
1986 : Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
1986 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 : Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
1987 : Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH
1987 : Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
1987 : PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God
1987 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 : Doughnutgate incident: NJ Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee
1988 : Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended
1988 : Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs v Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes
1990 : Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party
1990 : Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in SC
1991 : Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees
1991 : Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9"
1991 : Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
1993 : STS-55 (Columbia) lands
1994 : Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
1994 : Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show
1994 : House passes the assault weapons ban
1994 : Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 : Nelson Mandela & his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa
1995 : ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Mike Aulby
1995 : Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV
1996 : Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years of civil war
1996 : Guatemala's leftist guerrillas sign key accord with govt of Pres
1996 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Hartford CT on WCCC 106.9 FM
1997 : Army Staff Sgt Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape
1997 : Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1997 : Rick Pitino becomes coach of Boston Celtics
2012 : Transit of Venus
2002 : Renowned Peace activist Aubng Suu Kyi released after 19 months of house arrest.

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