What Happened on 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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Hindenburg Airship Explodes

The Hindenburg disaster took place on May 6, 1937 as the German rigid airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed within one minute while... Read more

"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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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,... Read more

"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),... Read more

Cleveland Indians defeat Baltimore Orioles, 9-6

Burres burns out After striking out the side in the first and taking a lead into the fourth inning, first-time Orioles starter Brian Burres was... Read more

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... Read more

Boston Red Sox defeat Detroit Tigers, 5-0

DETROIT - Their birthdays are 12 days apart. Well, that and 18 years. So, when 23-year-old Clay Buchholz is asked whether there was anything... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more