Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 6
This is a list of selected May 6 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Christopher Smart
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Đurđevdan in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia; | unreferenced |
| Yuri's Day in Russia | no footnotes |
| 1527 – Spanish and German troops sacked Rome, marking the symbolic end of the Italian Renaissance. | Sack of Rome: multiple issues; Italian Renaissance: refimprove section |
| 1682 – King Louis XIV of France moved the French royal court and the seat of government from Paris to the Château de Versailles in Versailles. | unreferenced sections |
| 1757 – After Prussian troops forced the Austrians to retreat at the Battle of Prague, the former army retreated as well after deciding that it lost too many men to effectively capture Prague. | refimprove |
| 1942 - World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor. | needs more footnotes |
| 1984 – Pope John Paul II canonized 103 of the Korean Martyrs, who were the subjects of religious persecution against Christians in 19th-century Korea. | lead too short |
Eligible
- 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart (pictured) was admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: The outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy captured the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
- 1882 – US President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law, implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained until the Magnuson Act was enacted in 1943.
- 1882 – Irish Under-Secretary Thomas Henry Burke and Irish Chief Secretary Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical group Irish National Invincibles as they walked through Phoenix Park in Dublin.
- 1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
- 1954 – At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English sprinter Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 2013 – Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, US, home of her captor Ariel Castro having been held there with two other women for ten years.
May 6: Saint George's Day in Bulgaria
- 1536 – The army of Inca Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui began a 10-month siege of Cuzco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro.
- 1782 – Construction began on the Grand Palace (pictured) of Bangkok, the official residence of the King of Thailand.
- 1941 – American entertainer Bob Hope performed the first of his many shows for the United Service Organizations.
- 1991 – Time magazine published "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", an article highly critical of the Scientology organization, leading to years of legal conflict that ended when the Church of Scientology's petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case was denied in 2001.
- 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by animal rights and environmental activist Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum, marking the first political murder on Dutch soil since 1672.