May 6
1882 - President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years (Arthur had opposed an earlier version with a 20-year ban).
1889 - The Eiffel Tower in Paris was completed and dedicated in Paris.
1910 - Britain's Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.
1935 - The Works Progress Administration began operating under an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg blew up and burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.
1941 - Comedian Bob Hope did his first USO show before an audience of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Field in Riverside, California.
1942 - During World War II, some 15,000 American and Filipino troops on Corregidor island surrendered to Japanese forces.
1941 - Dictator Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia.
1994 - The Chunnel between England and France opened to traffic.
1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he’d sexually harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.)
1999 - Scotland elected its first separate parliament in over 300 years.
2004 - President George W. Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, calling it “a stain on our country’s honor”; he rejected calls for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation.
2006 - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, at age 99.
2010 - A computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.
2013 - Kidnap-rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing separately about a decade earlier while in their teens or early 20s, were rescued from a house just south of downtown Cleveland. (Their captor, Ariel Castro, hanged himself in prison in September 2013 at the beginning of a life sentence plus 1,000 years.)
2013 - Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced by a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the previous decade.
2018 - Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group scored major gains in parliamentary elections, as the main Western-backed faction headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri lost a third of its seats.
Birthdays
26 - Sofia Jamora (model)
28 - Tiera Skovbye (actress)
29 - Noah Galvin (actor)
30 - Naomi Scott (actress/singer)
33 - Jose Altuve (baseball player)
35 - Cheree "Dakota Kai" Crowley (professional wrestler)
38 - Chris Paul (basketball player)
40 - Adrianne Palicki (actress)
41 - Tiffany Coyne (TV personality/model)
44 - Stacey Oristano (actress)
58 - Leslie Hope (actress)
62 - Clay O'Brien (actor)
62 - George Clooney (actor)
63 - Julianne Phillips (actress)
71 - Gregg Henry (actor)
75 - Richard Cox (actor)
76 - Alan Dale (actor)
78 - Bob Seger (singer)
92 - Willie Mays (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - May 6
1903 - The Chicago White Sox committed 12 errors against the Detroit Tigers.
1915 - Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox. The game was also his pitching debut.
1946 - The New York Yankees became the first major league baseball team to travel by plane.
1954 - British athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes (3:59.4).
1973 - The New England Whalers beat the Winnipeg Jets in the first WHA championship.
1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners become the 15th pitcher to win 300 career games.
1997 - The NHL's Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes.
1998 - Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs strikes out 20 batters in a game against the Houston Astros, to tie the MLB record held by Roger Clemens.
2016 - Major League Baseball and the player's union announced the Pirates-Marlins series in Puerto Rico would be moved to Marlins Park in Florida due to concerns about the Zika virus.
2019 - Pablo Sandoval becomes the second player in MLB history since 1900 to throw a scoreless outing, hit a home run and steal a base in the same game in the San Francisco Giants' 12-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Christy Mathewson in 1905 was the only other player to ever accomplish the feat.
1882 - President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years (Arthur had opposed an earlier version with a 20-year ban).
1889 - The Eiffel Tower in Paris was completed and dedicated in Paris.
1910 - Britain's Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.
1935 - The Works Progress Administration began operating under an executive order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg blew up and burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.
1941 - Comedian Bob Hope did his first USO show before an audience of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Field in Riverside, California.
1942 - During World War II, some 15,000 American and Filipino troops on Corregidor island surrendered to Japanese forces.
1941 - Dictator Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia.
1994 - The Chunnel between England and France opened to traffic.
1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he’d sexually harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.)
1999 - Scotland elected its first separate parliament in over 300 years.
2004 - President George W. Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers, calling it “a stain on our country’s honor”; he rejected calls for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation.
2006 - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, at age 99.
2010 - A computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.
2013 - Kidnap-rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing separately about a decade earlier while in their teens or early 20s, were rescued from a house just south of downtown Cleveland. (Their captor, Ariel Castro, hanged himself in prison in September 2013 at the beginning of a life sentence plus 1,000 years.)
2013 - Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced by a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the previous decade.
2018 - Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group scored major gains in parliamentary elections, as the main Western-backed faction headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri lost a third of its seats.
Birthdays
26 - Sofia Jamora (model)
28 - Tiera Skovbye (actress)
29 - Noah Galvin (actor)
30 - Naomi Scott (actress/singer)
33 - Jose Altuve (baseball player)
35 - Cheree "Dakota Kai" Crowley (professional wrestler)
38 - Chris Paul (basketball player)
40 - Adrianne Palicki (actress)
41 - Tiffany Coyne (TV personality/model)
44 - Stacey Oristano (actress)
58 - Leslie Hope (actress)
62 - Clay O'Brien (actor)
62 - George Clooney (actor)
63 - Julianne Phillips (actress)
71 - Gregg Henry (actor)
75 - Richard Cox (actor)
76 - Alan Dale (actor)
78 - Bob Seger (singer)
92 - Willie Mays (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - May 6
1903 - The Chicago White Sox committed 12 errors against the Detroit Tigers.
1915 - Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox. The game was also his pitching debut.
1946 - The New York Yankees became the first major league baseball team to travel by plane.
1954 - British athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes (3:59.4).
1973 - The New England Whalers beat the Winnipeg Jets in the first WHA championship.
1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners become the 15th pitcher to win 300 career games.
1997 - The NHL's Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes.
1998 - Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs strikes out 20 batters in a game against the Houston Astros, to tie the MLB record held by Roger Clemens.
2016 - Major League Baseball and the player's union announced the Pirates-Marlins series in Puerto Rico would be moved to Marlins Park in Florida due to concerns about the Zika virus.
2019 - Pablo Sandoval becomes the second player in MLB history since 1900 to throw a scoreless outing, hit a home run and steal a base in the same game in the San Francisco Giants' 12-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Christy Mathewson in 1905 was the only other player to ever accomplish the feat.
