1910<\/strong> – Kind Edward VII of England died. He was succeeded by his second son, George V.<\/p>\n 1915<\/strong> – Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – The German airship\u00a0Hindenburg<\/i>\u00a0crashed and burned in Lakehurst,\u00a0NJ. Thirty-six people (of the 97 onboard) were killed<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Bob Hope gave his first USO show at California’s March Field.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – During World War II, the Japanese seized control of the Philippines. About 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – Axis Sally made her final propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – The New York Yankees became the first major league baseball team to travel by plane.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – British runner Roger Banister broke the four-minute mile.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Senator\u00a0John Fitzgerald Kennedy\u00a0was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles in Courage”.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The Pablo Picasso painting of a Dutch girl was sold for $154,000 in London. It was the highest price paid (at the time) for a painting by a living artist.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Britain’s Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones. They were divorced in 1978.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Eisenhower\u00a0signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The first nuclear warhead was fired from the Polaris submarine.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – A jury of international architects and sculptors unanimously selected Maya Ying Lin’s entry for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The Channel Tunnel officially opened. The tunnel under the English Channel links England and France.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against\u00a0U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Army Staff Sgt. Delmar G. Simpson was sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping six trainees at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Four health-care companies agreed to a settlement of $600 million to hemophiliacs who had contracted AIDS from tainted blood between 1978-1985.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Britain’s Labour Party won the largest number of seats in the first elections for Scotland’s new Parliament and Wales’ new Assembly.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – A parole board in New York voted to release Amy Fisher. She had been in jail for 7 years for shooting her lover’s wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Chandra Levy’s parents reported her missing to police in Washington, DC. Levy’s body was found on May 22, 2002, in Rock Creek Park.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – “Spider-Man” became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its first weekend.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1000 points in what is known as the\u00a02010 Flash Crash.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Three women missing\u00a0for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of\u00a0Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n History of 6 May 1910 – Kind Edward VII of England died. He was succeeded by his second son, George V. 1915 – Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run while playing for the Boston Red Sox. 1937 – The German airship\u00a0Hindenburg\u00a0crashed and burned in Lakehurst,\u00a0NJ. 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