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, featured list or picture of the day.
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George V of the United Kingdom
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Hindenburg burning
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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 section |
| 1757 – After Prussian troops forced the Austrians to retreat at the Battle of Prague, the former army retreated as well after deciding that they lost too many men to effectively capture Prague. | refimprove |
| 1910 – George V became King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. | inappropriate tone |
| 1941 – Entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show for the United Service Organizations. | tagged {{POV}} |
| 1954 – At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. | needs more footnotes |
| 1994 – The Channel Tunnel, a 50.5-kilometre (31.4 mi) rail tunnel, officially opened beneath the English Channel, connecting Folkestone, England, and Coquelles, France. | unbalanced section |
Eligible
- 1542 – Christian missionary Francis Xavier reached Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
- 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart was admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- 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 which 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.
May 6: St George's Day in Bulgaria; Đurđevdan in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia; Yuri's Day in Russia
- 1527 – Spanish and German troops sacked Rome, marking the symbolic end of the Italian Renaissance.
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia, led by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson (pictured), scored a Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia.
- 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 the Phoenix Park in Dublin.
- 1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed while trying to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing over 30 people on board.
- 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf for his controversial statements regarding Muslims.