May 6 in History

Historical Events on May 6

1682 Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.

1861 American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.

1882 The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.

1916 Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while attempting to call upon the people to rise up against the French, and later being deposed and exiled to Réunion island.

1935 New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.

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

1942 World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.

1996 The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.

2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.

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Famous Birthdays on May 6

1758 Maximilien Robespierre

1856 Sigmund Freud

1915 Orson Welles

1953 Tony Blair

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Famous Deaths on May 6

1859 Alexander von Humboldt

1862 Henry David Thoreau

1910 Edward VII

2013 Giulio Andreotti

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