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The following events took place on May 6. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 59 events. Showing 31 - 59.

• 1940

  John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
• 1941

  At California’s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
• 1941

  The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
• 1942

  World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
• 1945

  World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
• 1945

  World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
• 1949

  EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
• 1954

  Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
• 1960

  More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
• 1962

  St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
• 1966

  Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
• 1972

  Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
• 1975

  During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut to commemorate 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
• 1976

  An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
• 1981

  A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
• 1983

  The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
• 1984

  One hundred three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
• 1989

  Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is known as the “coaster wars”.
• 1994

  Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
• 1994

  Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against United States President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
• 1996

  The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• 1997

  The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank’s 300-year history.
• 1998

  Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
• 1999

  The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
• 2001

  During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
• 2002

  After a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated.
• 2004

  The series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC. The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the sixth most watched television series finale in U.S. history.
• 2013

  Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Their captor, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody.
• 2014

  Six people are injured in a knife attack at a Chinese train station in Guangzhou.

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