May 6
1527 - Unpaid troops loyal to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V attacked Rome, forcing Pope Clement VII to flee to safety; some scholars mark the ensuing sack of the city as the end of the Renaissance in Italy.
1840 - A tornado that touched down in eastern Louisiana and crossed the Mississippi River into Natchez, Mississippi killed 317 people -- most of them on boats in the river.
1856 - Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in Freiberg, Moravia (present-day Pribor, Czech Republic).
1861 - Arkansas seceded from the Union.
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 Universal Exposition opened in Paris, marking the completion and dedication of the Eiffel Tower.
1910 - Britain's King Edward VII died; he was succeeded by George V.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg blew up and burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 of the 97 people on board.
1941 - Dictator Josef Stalin became the premier of Russia.
1941 - Comedian Bob Hope performed his first USO show before an audience of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Field in Riverside, California.
1942 - Some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese during World War II.
1960 - Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)
1994 - The Chunnel, a tunnel linking linking England and France underneath the English Channel, was opened to traffic.
1999 - Scotland elected its first separate parliament in over 300 years.
2001 - Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002 - "Spider-Man" became the first movie to earn more than $100 million in its opening weekend.
2004 - The final episode of "Friends" aired on NBC.
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.
2007 - Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France.
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 a half an hour.
2011 - Al-Qaida vowed to keep fighting the United States and avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, which it acknowledged for the first time in an internet statement.
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 his life sentence plus 1,000 years.)
2016 - In his first remarks about Donald Trump’s status as the GOP’s presumptive nominee, President Barack Obama urged the media to undertake tougher scrutiny of presidential candidates, saying from the White House, “This is not entertainment; this is not a reality show.”
2016 - For the second month in a row, the aerospace upstart SpaceX landed a rocket on an ocean platform just off the Florida coast, this time following the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite.
2020 - President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force; he said the force would shift its focus toward rebooting the economy and developing a vaccine.
Birthdays
24 - Sofia Jamora (model)
26 - Tiera Skovbye (actress)
27 - Noah Gavin (actor)
28 - Naomi Scott (actress/singer)
31 - Jose Altuve (baseball player)
33 - Cheree "Dakota Kai" Crowley (professional wrestler)
34 - Meek Mill (rapper)
36 - Chris Paul (basketball player)
38 - Adrianne Palicki (actress)
39 - Jason Witten (football player)
39 - Tiffany Coyne (model/TV personality)
42 - Stacey Oristano (actress)
55 - Geneva Carr (actress)
56 - Leslie Hope (actress)
60 - Clay O'Brien (actor)
60 - George Clooney (actor)
61 - Julianne Phillips (actress)
61 - Roma Downey (actress)
66 - Tom Bergeron (TV host)
68 - Tony Blair (former British prime minister)
69 - Gregg Henry (actor)
73 - Richard Cox (actor)
74 - Ben Masters (actor)
74 - Alan Dale (actor)
76 - Bob Seger (singer)
90 - Willie Mays (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - May 6
1915 - Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit the first of his 714 career home runs in a 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees.
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 defeated the Winnipeg Jets to win the first World Hockey Association (WHA) championship.
1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners becomes just the 15th pitcher in major league history to win 300 games.
1997 - The NHL's Hartford Whalers officially became the Carolina Hurricanes.
1998 - Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie Roger Clemens' major league record for most strikeouts in a game. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in what was just his fifth career start.
2015 - The NFL released a 243-page report on "Deflategate" that stopped short of calling New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady a cheater, but did call some of his claims "implausible" and left little doubt that he'd had a role in having footballs deflated before the Patriots' AFC title game against the Indianapolis Colts and probably in previous games as well.
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 major league player since 1900 to throw a scoreless inning, hit a home run and steal a base in the same game in the San Francisco Giants 12-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds; he joins Christy Mathewson (1905) as the only other player to accomplish the feat.
1527 - Unpaid troops loyal to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V attacked Rome, forcing Pope Clement VII to flee to safety; some scholars mark the ensuing sack of the city as the end of the Renaissance in Italy.
1840 - A tornado that touched down in eastern Louisiana and crossed the Mississippi River into Natchez, Mississippi killed 317 people -- most of them on boats in the river.
1856 - Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in Freiberg, Moravia (present-day Pribor, Czech Republic).
1861 - Arkansas seceded from the Union.
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 Universal Exposition opened in Paris, marking the completion and dedication of the Eiffel Tower.
1910 - Britain's King Edward VII died; he was succeeded by George V.
1937 - The German airship Hindenburg blew up and burst into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 of the 97 people on board.
1941 - Dictator Josef Stalin became the premier of Russia.
1941 - Comedian Bob Hope performed his first USO show before an audience of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Field in Riverside, California.
1942 - Some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese during World War II.
1960 - Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)
1994 - The Chunnel, a tunnel linking linking England and France underneath the English Channel, was opened to traffic.
1999 - Scotland elected its first separate parliament in over 300 years.
2001 - Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002 - "Spider-Man" became the first movie to earn more than $100 million in its opening weekend.
2004 - The final episode of "Friends" aired on NBC.
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.
2007 - Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France.
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 a half an hour.
2011 - Al-Qaida vowed to keep fighting the United States and avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, which it acknowledged for the first time in an internet statement.
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 his life sentence plus 1,000 years.)
2016 - In his first remarks about Donald Trump’s status as the GOP’s presumptive nominee, President Barack Obama urged the media to undertake tougher scrutiny of presidential candidates, saying from the White House, “This is not entertainment; this is not a reality show.”
2016 - For the second month in a row, the aerospace upstart SpaceX landed a rocket on an ocean platform just off the Florida coast, this time following the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite.
2020 - President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force; he said the force would shift its focus toward rebooting the economy and developing a vaccine.
Birthdays
24 - Sofia Jamora (model)
26 - Tiera Skovbye (actress)
27 - Noah Gavin (actor)
28 - Naomi Scott (actress/singer)
31 - Jose Altuve (baseball player)
33 - Cheree "Dakota Kai" Crowley (professional wrestler)
34 - Meek Mill (rapper)
36 - Chris Paul (basketball player)
38 - Adrianne Palicki (actress)
39 - Jason Witten (football player)
39 - Tiffany Coyne (model/TV personality)
42 - Stacey Oristano (actress)
55 - Geneva Carr (actress)
56 - Leslie Hope (actress)
60 - Clay O'Brien (actor)
60 - George Clooney (actor)
61 - Julianne Phillips (actress)
61 - Roma Downey (actress)
66 - Tom Bergeron (TV host)
68 - Tony Blair (former British prime minister)
69 - Gregg Henry (actor)
73 - Richard Cox (actor)
74 - Ben Masters (actor)
74 - Alan Dale (actor)
76 - Bob Seger (singer)
90 - Willie Mays (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - May 6
1915 - Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit the first of his 714 career home runs in a 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees.
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 defeated the Winnipeg Jets to win the first World Hockey Association (WHA) championship.
1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners becomes just the 15th pitcher in major league history to win 300 games.
1997 - The NHL's Hartford Whalers officially became the Carolina Hurricanes.
1998 - Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie Roger Clemens' major league record for most strikeouts in a game. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in what was just his fifth career start.
2015 - The NFL released a 243-page report on "Deflategate" that stopped short of calling New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady a cheater, but did call some of his claims "implausible" and left little doubt that he'd had a role in having footballs deflated before the Patriots' AFC title game against the Indianapolis Colts and probably in previous games as well.
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 major league player since 1900 to throw a scoreless inning, hit a home run and steal a base in the same game in the San Francisco Giants 12-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds; he joins Christy Mathewson (1905) as the only other player to accomplish the feat.
