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In the Gregorian Calendar, May 6 is the 126th
(hundredth – twentieth sixth) day of the year.

There are 239 days left until the end of 2021!

Quote of the Day…

Fear of death? One must fear life, not death.

— Marlene Dietrich
German-American actress and singer (died May 6, 1992).

Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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May 6 – A Day as Today – Events

589: the Third Council of Toledo begins in Spain, in which the Visigoth king Recaredo converts to Catholicism.
822: in Spain, the Umayyad emir al-Hakam I takes an oath of allegiance in favor of his sons Abderramán and al-Mugira, appointing them heirs in that order.
1191: in Cyprus, the fleet of Richard I of England arrives at the port of Lemesos (today Limassol) and captures the city.
1497: in Spain, by Royal Decree the trade of the American Indies is declared tax-free.
1527: Rome is sacked by the Spanish-German troops of Carlos I, under the command of the Duke of Bourbon.
1542: Saint Francis Xavier arrives in Goa to carry out his evangelizing work, at the request of John III, King of Portugal.
1576: Enrique III promulgates the Edict of Beaulieu, by which the freedom of religion is proclaimed in all France except in Paris or where the court resides.
1622: in Wimpfen (Hesse, Germany), victory of the Hispano-Austrian Army, within the framework of the Thirty Years’ War.
1703: the king of Portugal Pedro II, declares himself opposed to the cause of Felipe de Anjou.
1707: in Spain the body of the royal halberdier guards is created for the service and guard of the royal family.
1709: Luis XIV breaks the negotiations with the allies.
1794: In Haiti Toussaint L’Ouverture leads a revolution.
1816: The Liberator Simón Bolívar is proclaimed “Supreme Chief of the Republic and its Armies.”
1833 – In the United States, John Deere manufactures the first sheet steel.
1835: the first issue of The New York Herald appears in the United States.
1840: the United Kingdom makes the first issue of postage stamps in the world.
1851: John Gorrie patents an ice machine (a mechanical refrigerator).
1872: the first copy of L’Esquella de la Torratxa is published.
1890: Mormons in the United States renounce polygamy.
1890: in Luján, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján begins.
1908: in Spain, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez publishes the novel Sangre y arena.
1914: in London (England), the House of Lords denies the vote to women.
1916: the US Navy manages to establish an oral conversation between a ship and the coast by radiotelephone.
1937: in the Spanish Civil War there is a fight in the center of Barcelona between communists, the POUM (Trotskyists) and anarchists.
1937: in Lakehurst (New Jersey) the Hindenburg airship explodes, killing dozens of people.
1940: John Steinbeck receives the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1941: in the USSR, Stalin is appointed president of the Council of People’s Commissars.
1942: the US troops defending the Corregidor fortress surrender in the Philippines.
1950: in Argentina, the government of Juan Domingo Perón conducts a Census of Illiterates throughout the country.
1951: the First Congress of Academies of the Spanish Language ends in Mexico, which began on April 23, with the creation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.
1960: The first open television channel, Canal7, is inaugurated in Costa Rica.
1960: Princess Margaret of England marries photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones.
1962: in Vatican City, Pope John XXIII canonizes the Peruvian Martín de Porres, becoming the first black saint in America.
1962: At 1,594 meters above sea level, on Johnston Atoll, at 13:30 (local time) the United States detonates its 600 kt Frigate Bird atomic bomb. It is the 233rd bomb out of 1,132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
1965: From Cape Canaveral (Florida), the United States launches the Early Bird, the first communications satellite for commercial purposes.
1968: in Paris the Government declares a state of siege due to the incidents caused by the student revolution of the French May.
1968: In Gibraltar, the government closes the border crossing to all except Spanish and Gibraltarian workers who obtain a pass from the Military Governor of Campo de Gibraltar.
1972: the Spanish electricity supply network incorporates the Vandellós nuclear power plant.
1974: Günter Guillaume, Willy Brandt’s secretary, provokes his resignation when it was discovered that he was acting as a spy for the German Democratic Republic.
1976: a strong earthquake occurs in the Italian region of Friuli.
1979: Jarrai (Continue, in Basque) was a political youth organization. Established in the Basque Country and Navarra, it was founded on May 6, 1979
1984: in Seoul, Pope John Paul II canonizes 103 Korean martyrs.
1984: In El Salvador, José Napoleón Duarte, PDC presidential candidate, defeats Roberto d’Aubuisson, ARENA’s presidential candidate, in the presidential elections held that same day.
1989: in Switzerland, the song Rock Me, by the Yugoslav musical group Riva, is the winner at the XXXIV Eurovision Song Contest.
1994: inauguration of the Eurotunnel by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand.
1994: Baltasar Garzón resigns from his position as head of the socialist government’s anti-drug plan.
1997: creation of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
1998: in Pamplona, the terrorist group ETA assassinates Tomás Caballero (councilor and municipal spokesman for the Unión del Pueblo Navarro).
2001: the terrorist group ETA assassinates the president of the Aragonese PP, Manuel Giménez Abad, when he went to football with his son.
2004: the last episode of the hit comedy series Friends, which ran for ten seasons, is broadcast in the United States.
2007: in France, the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy obtains about 53% in the presidential elections, beating the socialist Ségolène Royal.
2012: in France, the socialist candidate François Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential elections of 2012.
2012: in Spain, the ASEFA Estudiantes basketball team descends for the first time in its history.
2012: an earthquake of 3.5 degrees is recorded in Bolivia, leaving cracks and detachment of tiles and bricks.
2012: Juventus Turin are proclaimed champions of the Italian Soccer League, with a 4-point advantage over AC Milan and with 1 matchday remaining.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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May 6 – A Day as Today – Births

973: Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1024).
1405: Skanderbeg, Albanian military man.
1493: Jerónimo Seripando, Italian cardinal.
1501: Marcelo II, Italian pope.
1534: Antonio Pérez, Spanish secretary of Felipe II.
1574: Innocent X, Italian pope.
1584: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, Spanish writer, politician and diplomat.
1635: Johann Joachim Becher, German alchemist.
1713: Charles Batteux, French philosopher.
1714: Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797).
1758: Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary.
1758: André Masséna, French revolutionary.
1769: Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
1775 – Mary Martha Sherwood, British children’s book writer (d. 1851).
1781 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher.
1801: José Joaquín Pérez, Chilean politician, president between 1861 and 1871 (d. 1889).
1809: Donoso Cortés, Spanish political speaker and writer.
1812: Martin Robinson Delany physician and abolitionist, first African-American to become an officer in the US Army (d. 1885)
1813: Bernhard Afinger, German sculptor.
1824: Tokugawa Iesada, Japanese shogun.
1839: Gabriel Mancera, engineer and Mexican politician (d. 1925).
1843: Christian Luerssen, German botanist (d. 1916).
1845: Ángel Guimerá, Spanish poet and playwright.
1846: Henrik Sienkiewicz, Polish writer.
1854: Charlotte Wilson, English anarchist (d. 1944).
1856: Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician, father of psychoanalysis (1939).
1856 – Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920).
1859: Luis María Drago, Argentine jurist, politician and writer.
1868: Gastón Leroux, French writer.
1871: Victor Grignard, French chemist, 1912 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry.
1871: Jorge Aleksándrovich Romanov, Russian aristocrat.
1876: Esteban Baca Calderón, Mexican military and politician (d. 1957).
1880: Ernst Ludvig Kirchner, German expressionist painter.
1882: William of Prussia, Prussian prince (d. 1951).
1882: Manuel López Cañamaque, Spanish musician and composer (d. 1953).
1882: Romano Calò, Italian actor (d. 1952).
1893: José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 1936).
1894: Gustavo Cochet, Argentine painter, printmaker and writer (d. 1979).
1894: Horacio Terra Arocena, Uruguayan architect (d. 1985).
1895: Rodolfo Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926).
1895: Malba Tahan, Brazilian math teacher and writer (d. 1974).
1902: Max Ophüls, German filmmaker (d. 1957).
1904: Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, 1974 Nobel Prize winner for literature (d. 1978).
1905: Manuel Mendizábal, Spanish scientist and politician (f. 1996).
1909: Ángel Juan Quesada, Spanish choir director and composer (d. 1988).
1913: Stewart Granger, British actor (d. 1993).
1915: Orson Welles, American actor and filmmaker (d. 1985).
1916: Robert Henry Dicke, American astronomer (d. 1997).
1918: Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, Emirati politician, president of the United Arab Emirates between 1971 and 2004 (d. 2004).
1918: Henrietta Boggs, American and Costa Rican politician, writer and activist (f. 2020).
1919: Alejandro Finisterre, inventor and Spanish poet (d. 2007).
1920: Vicente Fuentes Díaz, Mexican politician and historian (d. 2010).
1922: Otmar Suitner, Austrian conductor and musician (d. 2010).
1923: Josep Seguer, Spanish footballer (d. 2014).
1924: Néstor Basterretxea, Spanish sculptor and painter (d. 2014).
1925: John Bayard Britton, American doctor assassinated by an anti-abortionist (d. 1994).
1926: Helios Sarthou, Uruguayan politician (d. 2012).
1928: Robert Poujade, French politician.
1929: Paul C. Lauterbur, American chemist, 2003 Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine (d. 2007).
1930: Vladimir Abazarov, Soviet geologist (d. 2003).
1931: Willie Mays, American baseball player.
1934: Luis Ángel Rojo, Spanish economist, governor of the Bank of Spain (f. 2011).
1937: Rubin Hurricane Carter, American boxer.
1937: Néstor Isella, Argentine soccer player (d. 2015).
1941: Guillermo Galeote Jiménez, Spanish politician.
1943: Andreas Baader, German leader of the RAF.
1944: Anton Furst, British film producer.
1944: Fernando Méndez-Leite, Spanish filmmaker.
1945: Xosé Lluis García Arias, Spanish philologist and writer.
1945: Bob Seger, American singer.
1947: Alan Dale, New Zealand actor.
1947: Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher.
1950: Samuel Kanyon Doe, Liberian politician and military man.
1952: Christian Clavier, French actor.
1952: Fernando López-Amor, Spanish politician.
1953: Tony Blair, British Prime Minister.
1953: Omar Pérez Santiago, Chilean writer.
1953: Graeme Souness, British footballer and coach.
1955: Pedro Piqueras, Spanish journalist.
1958: Lolita Flores, Spanish singer and actress.
1960: Mauricio Electorat, Chilean writer.
1961: George Clooney, American actor and filmmaker.
1965: Leslie Hope, Canadian actress.
1967: Vladimir Llakaj, Albanian sculptor.
1968: Lætitia Sadier, French singer.
1970: Tristán Ulloa, Spanish actor and filmmaker.
1970: Manuel Baldizón, Guatemalan politician.
1971: Chris Shiflett, American guitarist.
1972: Martin Brodeur, Canadian hockey player.
1976: Iván de la Peña, Spanish footballer.
1977: André Sa, Brazilian tennis player.
1980: Carlos Arano, Argentine soccer player.
1980: Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player.
1980: Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian soccer player.
1981: Mark O’Connell, American drummer.
1981: Guglielmo Stendardo, Italian footballer.
1983: Dani Alves, Brazilian soccer player
1983: Adrianne Palicki, American actress.
1983: Gabourey Sidibe, American actress.
1984: Juan Pablo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper.
1984: Fawzi Bashir, Omani footballer.
1985: Chris Paul, American basketball player.
1987: Gerardo Parra, Venezuelan baseball player.
1987: Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer.
1988: Alexis Ajinça, French basketball player.
1988: Ramon Motta, Brazilian soccer player.
1989: Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player.
1989: Cameron Heyward, American football player.
1990: José Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player.
1992: Baekhyun, South Korean singer, actor and model.
1993: Dasom, South Korean singer, dancer and actress.
2019: Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, British aristocrat.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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May 6 – A Day as Today – Deaths

1245: Pedro Nolasco, Spanish friar and saint (b. 1180).
1540: Juan Luis Vives, Spanish humanist writer.
1579: Francisco de Montmorency, French aristocrat.
1638: Cornelio Jansenio, Dutch bishop.
1691: Caterina Tarongí, Majorcan Jewess burned alive by the Spanish Inquisition (b. 1646).
1840: Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian military and politician (b. 1792).
1859: Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist.
1862: Henry David Thoreau, American writer.
1864: Ludolf Christian Treviranus, German botanist (b. 1779).
1873: José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan politician and hero of the Independence, president between 1830-1835, 1839-1843, and 1861-1863 (b. 1790).
1877: Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet.
1881: Jacinto Vera, Uruguayan bishop (b. 1813).
1892: Ernest Guiraud. French composer.
1910: Edward VII, British King.
1913: Alexandros Schinás, Greek anarchist regicide (b. 1870).
1919 – Lyman Frank Baum, American writer (b.1859).
1946: Alcides Arguedas, Bolivian writer, politician and historian (b. 1879).
1949: Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer.
1950: Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes, Nicaraguan politician (b. 1872).
1951: Elie Cartan, French mathematician.
1952: Maria Montessori, Italian educator.
1961: Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright and philosopher.
1963: Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist (b. 1881).
1967: Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer.
1968: Arturo Acevedo, Argentine businessman (b. 1891).
1971: María Jesús Alvarado Rivera, the first Peruvian feminist and social fighter.
1975: József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal.
1976: José Guerra Vicente, Portuguese-Brazilian composer, cellist and teacher (b.1907).
1980: María Luisa Bombal, Chilean writer (b.1910).
1990: Lotte Jacobi, American photographer (b.1896).
1990: Eduardo Nicol, Mexican philosopher (b.1907).
1992: Marlene Dietrich, German actress.
1993: Rommel Fernández, Panamanian soccer player.
1994: Malvina Pastorino, Argentine actress (b. 1916).
1995: María Pía de Sajonia-Coburgo Gotha y Braganza, writer, journalist and Infanta of Portugal (b. 1907).
2000: Juan de Dios Guevara, Peruvian chemist (b.1910).
2000: Balivada Kantha Rao, Telugu writer (b.1927).
2001: Manuel Giménez Abad, Spanish politician (b.1948).
2002: Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician.
2003: Guillermo Gaviria Correa, Colombian politician (b. 1962).
2003: Tito García, Spanish actor (b.1931).
2004: Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (b. 1923).
2006: Lillian Asplund, last survivor with memories of the tragedy of the Titanic (b.1906).
2007: Carey Bell, American blues musician.
2007: Oscar Blottita Blotta, Argentine cartoonist, cartoonist and publicist (b.1918).
2009: Valentin Varénnikov, Russian military man (b.1923).
2012: Laly Cobas, Argentine journalist (b. 1953).
2013: Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician (b.1919).
2014: Manuel Jiménez de Parga, Spanish politician (b.1929).
2016: Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b.1990).
2016: Margot Honecker, German politician (b.1927).
2016: Candye Kane, American singer (b.1961).
2016: Giancarlo Salvi, Italian footballer (b.1945).
2016: Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b.1990).
2016: El Topo, an Ecuadorian criminal and paramilitary (b.1972).
2017: Hugh Thomas, British historian and Hispanicist (b.1931)
2019: Andrés Junquera, Spanish footballer (b.1946).
2020: Alfonso Rangel Guerra, Mexican lawyer, humanist, writer, thinker, academic and professor (b.1928).