May 6, almanac of the day

It happened today, the almanac of the day: the historical and political facts, who was born and who left us. What happened on May 6th

1527 – The Landsknechts, German troops in the service of Charles V of Habsburg, sack Rome; some consider this date to be the end of the Renaissance.
1536 – King Henry VIII orders an English-language Bible to be placed in every church in the kingdom.
1542 – The Jesuit Francis Xavier arrives in Goa, then a Portuguese possession, to evangelize the Indians.
1622 – 30 Years’ War: At the Battle of Wimpfen the Catholic forces led by the Count of Tilly defeat the Protestants led by Count Ernst von Mansfeld and Margrave George Frederick of Baden Durlach.
1682 – Louis XIV of France moves his court to Versailles.
1686 – Treaty of Moscow: perpetual peace between Poland/Lithuania (Krzysztof Grzymułtowski (pl)) and Russia (Vasily Golitsyn). Belarus (Minsk) and Little Russia (Kiev) are integrated into the Russian Empire. Formally ends the Russo-Polish War 1654-1667 and confirms the agreements reached in the armistice of Andrussowo in 1667.
1757 – Seven Years’ War: In the Battle of Prague, the Prussian army defeats the Austrian army during the Seven Years’ War.
1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York.
1835 – James Gordon Bennett Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
1840 – England, the first stamp in history comes into use: the Penny Black.
1848 – First Italian War of Independence: In the bloody battle of Santa Lucia, Radetzky’s Austrians defeat Carlo Alberto’s Piedmontese; the toll is 182 dead, of which 110 Piedmontese, and around a thousand injured.
1854 – After the fiasco of the previous year at the Fenice, Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata was revived in Venice at the Teatro di S. Benedetto. It is a resounding success due above all to the new interpreter, the young soprano Maria Spezia who even in her appearance recalled the figure of Violetta, The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils.
1861 – United States of America: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1877 – Realizing that his people were weakened by cold and hunger, Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to U.S. troops in Nebraska.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public during the Paris Universal Exhibition.
1896 – Greece, a special stamp is issued to celebrate the 1st Olympics of the modern era.
1906 – The first edition of the famous Targa Florio car race takes place in Sicily.
1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom following the death of his father, Edward VII.
1937 – The German zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed within a minute while attempting to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing over 30 people.
1940 – John Steinbeck receives the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Fury.
1942 – World War II: At Corregidor, the last U.S. forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
1944 – Mohandas Gandhi is released from prison.
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1947 – Venice, a military court sentences German general Albert Kesselring, commander of the troops in Italy, to death for war crimes. The sentence is converted to life imprisonment by the English general Harding. On 23 October 1952 he was pardoned.
1954 – British athlete Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run the mile in under four minutes.
1962 – Antonio Segni is elected fourth President of the Italian Republic with 443 votes out of 854; he is sworn in on May 11.
1967 – Vatican, Pope Paul VI receives Claudia Cardinale and Antonella Lualdi, who for the first time in the State of the Church wear miniskirts.
1973 – USA, the Senate begins the investigation into the Watergate scandal.
1976 – Friuli earthquake: huge damage and around 1000 deaths, most of which in the central-northern areas
1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously chooses Maya Ying Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, among 1,421 other entries.
1994 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Eurotunnel, a Channel Tunnel connecting England to France for the first time since the Devensian glaciation.
1998 – Società Sportiva Lazio is the first Italian football team to be listed on the Milan Stock Exchange in the FTSE Italia Small Cap index
2002 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin becomes Prime Minister of France.
2004 – USA, The last episode of the sitcom Friends is broadcast on television.
2006 – Lillian Asplund, the last living eyewitness to the Titanic tragedy, dies. At the time of the events she was six years old.
2007 – In France the run-off between Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidential elections sees the conservative candidate victorious.
2008 – Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Medal of Honor.
2012 – François Hollande is elected 24th president of the French Republic.

Parties and anniversaries

International:

International day against diets

Nationals:

Bulgaria – Armed Forces Day
Lebanon and Syria – Martyrs’ Day (honors the memory of the nationalists executed in Damascus and Beirut by Djemal Pacha, local Ottoman governor, in 1916)

Saints of today

Saint John the Evangelist at Porta Latina
Saint Benedict of Rome, virgin
St. Edward of Lindisfarne, bishop
Saint Evodius of Antioch, bishop
Saint François de Montmorency-Laval, bishop
Saint Lucius of Cyrene, bishop
Saints Mariano and Giacomo, martyrs
Saint Peter Nolasco, religious
Saint Protogenes of Harran, bishop
Saint Sennara, Welsh widow
Saint Venerius, bishop
Blessed Anna Rosa Gattorno, founder of the Daughters of Saint Anna
Blessed Bartolomeo Pucci-Franceschi, Franciscan priest
Blessed Maria Caterina di Santa Rosa Troiani, founder of the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Blessed Edward Jones and Anthony Middleton, martyrs
Blessed Henry Kaczorowski and Casimir Gostynski, priests and martyrs
Blessed Jutta of Sangerhausen (Judith), widow
Blessed Pietro de Tornamira and Guglielmo Tandi, mercedaries
Blessed Peter I of Tarentasia, bishop
Blessed Ponzio de Barellis, mercedary
Đurđevdan, feast in honor of Saint George, celebrated in Serbia and many other Balkan countries as well as in Roma communities (Orthodox Church)

Born today May 6th

Tony Blair (1953)
George Clooney (1961)
Maximilien De Robespierre (1758)
Sigmund Freud (1856)
Nicholas II Romanov (1868)
Rudolph Valentino (1895)
Orson Welles (1915)