May 6: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1682 - Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
2. 1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
3. 1844 - The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
4. 1861 - American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
5. 1877 - Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
6. 1882 - The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
7. 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
8. 1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The Germanzeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
9. 1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
10. 1994 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
11. Famous Birthdays: Maximilien de Robespierre (French lawyer and politician), Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist), Victor Grignard (French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Harry Martinson (Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate), Orson Welles (American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter)

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