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Notable anniversaries in history for today: May 6
- 900th: 1124 - Balak Emir of Aleppo, murdered.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Mimi Benzell in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA; operatic soprano (Gilda - Rigoletto).
- 100th: 1924 - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at age 47.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Richard C Shelby; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Alabama (1979-86)/Senator-Democrat-Alabama, 1987-).
- 90th: 1934 - Boston Red Sox score 12 runs in fourth inning including record four consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, and B Walters.
- 80th: 1944 - 70th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Pensive wins in 2:04.2.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky in Russia; cosmonaut.
- 70th: 1954 - Roger Bannister of Great Britain becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes (3:59.04).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dana Hill [Goetz] in Van Nuys, California, USA; actress (Two of Us, Shoot the Moon).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Kim Oden in Irvine, California, USA; American Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-1980s).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Mike Grob in Billings, Montana, USA; Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Manitoba-third).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Mike McGruder; NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Roma Downey in Derry, Ireland; actress (JoAnna - One Life to Live).
- 50th: 1974 - Oakland Athletics' pitcher Paul Lindblad makes an errant throw in first inning of 6-3 loss to Baltimore Orioles; ends his record streak of 385 consecutive errorless games.
- 50th: 1974 - Roberta Parks disappears from Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon (Ted Bundy victim).
- 50th: 1974 - Smallest attendance at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium (4,149).
- 50th: 1974 - Stolen Guitar Player painting by Jan Vermeer found in London, England.
- 50th: 1974 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
- 40th: 1984 - José Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election.
- 40th: 1984 - Baltimore Orioles' player Cal Ripken Junior hits for the cycle.
- 40th: 1984 - The final episode of TV show The Jeffersons airs.
- 30th: 1994 - A rail tunnel under the English Channel is officially opened, connecting Britain and the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age. England's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterand preside over the opening ceremony. The channel tunnel, the world's longest undersea tunnel (23 miles), connects Folkstone, England, with Sangatte, France, cutting travel time between England and France to 35 minutes. Tunnel construction began in June 1988, and cost US$16 billion to complete.
- 30th: 1994 - Fred Sadoff, actor (The Quiet American), dies of AIDS at age 67.
- 30th: 1994 - US House of Representatives passes the assault weapons ban.
- 30th: 1994 - Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
- 30th: 1994 - Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at age 81.
- 30th: 1994 - Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress finally confirmed winners in South Africa elections.
- 25th: 1999 - Elections are held in Scotland and Wales for the new Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales.
- 25th: 1999 - In Southern Iran, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs. At least 26 people killed, 100 injured and 800 houses destroyed.
- 20th: 2004 - Royal Caribbean International's Empress of the Seas cruise ship (1602 passengers), formerly Nordic Empress, arrives at Cape Liberty Cruise Port, in Bayonne, New Jersey, following extensive renovations.
- 20th: 2004 - NBC airs the last episode of Friends.
- 15th: 2009 - German carmaker Porsche agrees to a merger with Volkswagen, which would result in a group uniting ten brands, nine of them currently owned by Volkswagen.
- 15th: 2009 - Mexico City resumes normal life after a five-day business shutdown due to the H1N1 flu virus, which has killed a confirmed 42 in the country.
- 15th: 2009 - Canada's Toronto Stock Exchange S&P/TSX composite index rises to over 10,000 for the first time in six months, closing up 265.71 at 10,146.43.
- 15th: 2009 - Nomos AG auctions a Greek 460 B.C.E. silver tetradrachm for 914,500 Swiss francs (US$809,779), a record for a Greek tetradrachm at public auction.
- 5th: 2019 - Birth of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.
- 5th: 2019 - In its first report since 2005, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that biodiversity loss is "accelerating", with over a million species now threatened with extinction; the decline of the natural living world is "unprecedented" and largely a result of human actions, according to the report.
- 5th: 2019 - The Syrian Army launches a major ground offensive against one of the last rebel strongholds in the country.
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