What Happened On May 6

What Happened On May 6 Events

1622 May 6 Battle of Wimpfen
The Battle of Wimpfen was a battle in the Bohemian Revolt period of the Thirty Years' War on May 6, 1622 near Wimpfen. The forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Catholic League under Marsha...
1780 May 6 Battle Of Lenud's Ferry
The Battle of Lenud's Ferry was a battle of the American Revolutionary War that was fought on May 6, 1780 in present-day Berkeley County, South Carolina. The Loyalist British Legion, unde...
1833 May 6 Andrew Jackson Sails On USS Cygnet To Fredericksburg, Virginia
The first attempt to do bodily harm to a President was against Jackson. Jackson ordered the dismissal of Robert B. Randolph from the Navy for embezzlement. On May 6, 1833, Jackson sailed ...
1853 May 6 Norwalk Rail Accident
At 08:00 that morning the Boston express left New York with 200 passengers under the charge of a substitute driver for whom this was the third trip on the route. The train comprised two b...
1856 May 6 Robert Peary is Born
On May 6, 1856, Robert E. Peary, who claimed discovery of the North Pole, was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania. During the early years of the twentieth century, the conquest of the North...
1856 May 6 Sigmund Freud is Born
Freud was born on 6 May 1856, to Jewish Galician parents in the Moravian town of Příbor, Austrian Empire, now the Czech Republic. Freud was born with a caul, which the family accepted as ...
1864 May 6 Battle of Calcasieu Pass
The Battle of Calcasieu Pass was a minor skirmish fought on May 6, 1864, in southwestern Louisiana, at the mouth of the Calcasieu River, during the American Civil War. It resulted in a Co...
1864 May 6 Battle Of The Wilderness - James E. Longstreet is Wounded
On May 6, 1864, Confederate General James E. Longstreet was seriously wounded, caught in the fire of his own troops during the second day of fighting at the Battle of the Wilderness, eigh...
1864 May 6
to 1864 May 7
 Union Forces Destroy Railroad at the Battle of Port Walthall Junction
Description:In conjunction with the opening of Grant’s Overland Campaign, Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler’s Army of the James, 33,000 strong, disembarked from transports at Bermuda Hundred on M...
1895 May 6
to 1897 Apr 19
 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President of the Board of the NYC Police Commissioners
Roosevelt became president of the board of New York City Police Commissioners in 1895. During his two years in this post, Roosevelt radically reformed the police department. The police fo...
1898 May 6 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes Lieutenant-Colonel of the Rough Riders
Upon the 1898 Declaration of War launching the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt resigned from the Navy Department. With the aid of U.S. Army Colonel Leonard Wood, Roosevelt found volunteer...
1915 May 6
to 1915 May 8
 Second Battle of Krithia
The Second Battle of Krithia continued the Allies' attempts to advance on the Helles battlefield during the Battle of Gallipoli of World War I. The village of Krithia and neighbouring hil...
1919 May 6
to 1919 Aug 8
 The Third Anglo-Afghan War
The Third Anglo-Afghan War (also referred to as the Third Afghan War) began on 6 May 1919 and ended with an armistice on 8 August 1919. Whilst it was essentially a minor tactical victory ...
1937 May 6 Hindenburg Airship Explodes
"Oh, the humanity!" —Herbert Morrison, WLS radio broadcaster
1992 May 6 "The Keys" - Season 3 Episode 23 of Seinfeld Premiers
"The Keys" is the fortieth episode of the sitcom Seinfeld. The episode was the 23rd and final episode for the third season and the first of a three-episode cliffhanger. It aired on May 6,...
2003 May 6 Anthrax releases We've Come for You All
We've Come for You All is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. It was produced by the band and Scrap 60, and includes the singles "What Doesn't Die," "Safe Home," ...
2003 May 6 Down By Law releases Windwardtidesandwaywardsails
Windwardtidesandwaywardsails is the seventh full length album by Down by Law that was released in 2003. This album marked the first time since 1993's Blue that the same drummer played on ...
2003 May 6 EVE Online Launches
EVE Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is a player-driven persistent-world massively multiplayer online game set in a science fiction space setting. Players pilot customizable ships ...
2004 May 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 5-2
CLEVELAND -- Manny Ramirez, holding court in the Red Sox clubhouse, broke away from a gaggle of reporters when Pedro Martinez arrived before the game wearing a fancy suit, designer shades...
2005 May 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Seattle Mariners, 7-2
There are nights when the Red Sox look like they can go 162-0. They mash the baseball, hitting it to all corners of old Fenway. They throw strikes and make enemy hitters look silly. They ...
2005 May 6 Kingdom of Heaven released
Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic film, directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Marton Csokas, Brendan Glee...
2006 May 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 9-3
It's like stepping into your favorite slippers after dinner. Or changing into your favorite pair of jeans after a hard day at the office. Tim Wakefield likes pitching to Doug Mirabelli...
2006 May 6 "My Testicles" SNL Digital Short
Friends in the early 1990s (Kenan Thompson, Forte, and Parnell) discuss the music video by pop stars Ariel (Andy Samberg) and Efrim (Tom Hanks), where we see the lyrics consist of constan...
2007 May 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 4-3
MINNEAPOLIS -- Curt Schilling looked calm, sitting in the dugout after having been removed after his command unraveled in the seventh inning. The game was left in the hands of Hideki Okaj...
2007 May 6 Cleveland Indians defeat Baltimore Orioles, 9-6
On the same day that Roger Clemens signed with the New York Yankees to bolster a rotation that's been ravaged by injuries, the Orioles sent Brian Burres to the mound as a means of repairi...
2007 May 6 Entourage Season 3 Episode 17 - Return of the King
It's Yom Kippur, and while Ari attempts to gain forgiveness for his sins, he runs into 'Medellin' co-producer Nick Rubenstein at his temple. Nick drops the bomb that the biopic is back in...
2008 May 6 Boston Celtics defeat Cleveland Cavaliers, 76-72
Imagine two heavyweight boxers, nose to nose, sweating profusely, throwing body blow after body blow until only one is barely left standing. Not the type of fight you want to watch over a...
2008 May 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Detroit Tigers, 5-0
DETROIT - It took Tim Wakefield nine pitches to retire the Tigers' first batter, Curtis Granderson, who grounded to the shortstop. It took just 89 more for Wakefield to get through the ne...
2008 May 6 Oakland Athletics defeat Baltimore Orioles, 4-2
OAKLAND, Calif. -- When the Orioles beat the Los Angeles Angels on Friday to start their 10-game road trip, they were three games over .500 and just a game out of first place in the Ameri...
2009 May 6 Baltimore Orioles defeat Minnesota Twins, 4-1
GETTING WET The game's originally-scheduled first pitch was delayed 42 minutes after the rains hit before the game. The Orioles and Twins were able to play 1 1/2 innings before the tar...
2009 May 6 Boston Celtics defeat Orlando Magic, 112-94
The Celtics found a cure for the post-Chicago blues they had been experiencing since eliminating the Bulls in the first round of the playoffs. A healthy dose of Rajon Rondo's aggressio...
2009 May 6 Carolina Hurricanes defeat Boston Bruins, 3-2
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Bruins did not deserve to win Game 3. Seemingly quaking in their skates before a sellout crowd of 18,680 at the RBC Center last night, the Bruins were thoroughly ou...
2009 May 6 Christopher Kelly talking to feds about Rod Blagojevich
Several onetime allies of for- mer Gov. Rod Blagojevich have already lined up as government witnesses against him, and another close friend and confidant could be next. Sources familia...
2009 May 6 Cleveland Indians defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-2
In 1994, the Red Sox selected a pitcher named Carl Pavano in the 13th round of the amateur draft, and over the next 14 years, he brought the organization joy in strange and indirect ways....
2009 May 6 Milwaukee Brewers defeat Cincinnati Reds, 15-3
Cincinnati - The game needed a 46-minute delay before it could start. And it needed even less time than that before it was finished. In what resembled a slow-pitch softball game for...
2009 May 6 Red Sox crushed 9 - 2 by Cleveland Indians in twenty-eighth game of season
The Red Sox returned to Fenway Park on Wednesday night, riding some momentum after pulling out a two-game sweep of the Yankees in the Bronx. As it turned out though, there was no positive...
2009 May 6 Rod Blagojevich's defense team given over one million pages of evidence against him
The defense team for disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was given at least 1 million pages of documents set to be used as evidence, lawyers say. Lawyers in the case said al...
2009 May 6 St. Louis Cardinals defeat Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2
The advantage of having 13 pitchers on his roster, many of them rested, enabled Cardinals manager Tony La Russa to pull off something Wednesday night that even he rarely does. La Russa em...
2009 May 6 Tampa Bay Rays defeat New York Yankees, 4-3
Mark Teixeira was almost a hero. Unfortunately, almost doesn't count in the Bronx. The Yankees' $180 million man woke up the lifeless Yankees with a game-tying, three-run double in the...
2009 May 6
9:05AM-9:15AM
 Agility in Deployment - Rails in the Cloud - RailsConf
The ability to release early and often becomes more important as your product scales. With Engine Yard Flex, we’ll demonstrate creating ‘One Button’ deployments that scale. We’ll demonstr...
2009 May 6
9:15AM-10:15AM
 Chris Wanstrath - RailsConf Keynote
Keynote by Chris Wanstrath, GitHub. CNET => Err the Blog => GitHub Chris Wanstrath lives in San Francisco and freaking loves Ruby. He writes for Err the Blog, works at Err Free, kee...
2009 May 6
10:45AM-11:35AM
 ActiveORM: ORM Agnosticism in Rails 3.0 - RailsConf
Lori will be speaking about the implementation of ORM agnosticism in Rails called ActiveORM and how it effects developers, plugin developers, and people working on the rails framework.
2009 May 6
10:45AM-11:35AM
 Confessions of a PackRat - RailsConf
When the Facebook game PackRat was released in early 2008, it quickly took off, and now serves over 12 million page views a day. This session will highlite some of the lessons learned whi...
2009 May 6
10:45AM-11:35AM
 Rails Metal, Rack, and Sinatra - RailsConf
Rails 2.3 introduces a hot new feature: Rails Metal. Metal allows you to build Rack endpoints for selected URLs in your app. Optimize your high-frequency, low-complexity actions with Rail...
2009 May 6
10:45AM-11:35AM
 Twitter on Rails - RailsConf
Twitter’s content and APIs make it one of the best targets around for creating mashups. It’s now easier than ever to do so using TwitterAuth, a Rails gem/plugin that utilizes Twitter as a...
2009 May 6
10:45AM-11:35AM
 Using metric_fu to Make Your Rails Code Better - RailsConf
You’ve got yourself a Rails project and a bunch of developers. Some of those devs are awesome and others are… not so awesome. How can you make sure that your beautiful code doesn’t degrad...
2009 May 6
11:45AM-12:35PM
 Are You Taking Things Too Far? - RailsConf
Sometimes as developers it can be a little too easy to lose sight of the big picture sometimes, we can get carried away with following the conventional wisdom without thinking about why t...
2009 May 6
11:45AM-12:35PM
 Giving Rails the Big 'F': Surviving Facebook Integration Unscarred - RailsConf
“If you want a vision of the [Facebook], imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”—George Orwell Sooner or later, someone will ask you to write a Facebook app. Scrabulous....
2009 May 6
11:45AM-12:35PM
 JRuby on Google App Engine - RailsConf
Google has just released an early look at Google App Engine for Java! Now JRuby developers can use the Rails or Merb frameworks to deploy applications to Google’s highly scalable infrastr...
2009 May 6
11:45AM-12:35PM
 Rails3: Step Off of the Golden Path - RailsConf
Back in December 2008, the Rails and Merb core teams surprised everybody by deciding to merge their teams and focus their energy on a common release: Rails 3.0. On one hand, Rails is famo...