May 6th, 1954

Born on May 6th, 1954

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What happened on May 6th, 1954?

May 6th, 1954

Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

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May 6th, 1954

At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

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What else happened on May 6th?

May 6th, 2013

Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.

May 6th, 2008

British barrister Mark Saunders was shot dead by police after a five-hour siege at his home in Chelsea, London.

May 6th, 1991

Time magazine published the article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" by Richard Behar criticizing the Church of Scientology, leading to years of legal conflict.

May 6th, 1988

Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board.

May 6th, 1941

American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.

May 6th, 1937

The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.

May 6th, 1915

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Aurora, anchored in McMurdo Sound, broke loose during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean for her 18-man crew.

May 6th, 1882

U.S. president Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law (cartoon pictured), implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained for 61 years.

May 6th, 1801

French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy.

May 6th, 1782

Construction began on the Grand Palace (pictured) in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.

May 6th, 1757

English poet Christopher Smart was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.

May 6th, 1536

Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco against a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro.

May 6th, 1910

George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 6th

Born on May 6th, 1954

69

Marie-Aude Murail

French writer

*May 6th, 1954, Le Havre

69

Dora Bakoyannis

Greek politician 1954-

*May 6th, 1954, Athens

69

Marcel Konrad

Swiss author

*May 6th, 1954, Lucerne

69

Ain Lutsepp

Estonian actor and politician

*May 6th, 1954, Tallinn

69

Tom Abernethy

American professional basketball player

*May 6th, 1954, South Bend

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 6th?

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

78

Victoria Bond

American composer

*May 6th, 1945, Los Angeles

74

Kjell Bækkelund

Norwegian musician (1930-2004)

*May 6th, 1930, Oslo †May 13th, 2004, Oslo

34

Chukwuma Akabueze

Footballer

*May 6th, 1989, Ilorin

71

Christian Clavier

French actor and screenwriter

*May 6th, 1952, Paris

62

George Clooney

American actor and filmmaker (born 1961)

*May 6th, 1961, Lexington

58

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

43

Wolke Hegenbarth

Actress

*May 6th, 1980, Meerbusch

63

Anne Parillaud

French actress

*May 6th, 1960, 12th arrondissement of Paris

83

Sigmund Freud

Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)

*May 6th, 1856, Příbor †September 23rd, 1939, London

63

Martina Jäschke

East German diver

*May 6th, 1960, Merseburg

61

Mario Kummer

East German racing cyclist and team manager

*May 6th, 1962, Suhl

67

Barbara Krug

East German sprinter

*May 6th, 1956, Leipzig

70

Ernst Daniël Smid

Dutch singer, musical actor and television presenter

*May 6th, 1953, Enschede

19

Rayhan Fadillah

Badminton player

*May 6th, 2004, Tanah Bumbu Regency

55

Lætitia Sadier

French singer

*May 6th, 1968, Vincennes

40

Daniel Alves

Former Brazilian Football Federation player

*May 6th, 1983, Juazeiro

68

Donald A. Thomas

American astronaut

*May 6th, 1955, Cleveland

36

Andreas Hindelang

German footballer

*May 6th, 1987, Oberstdorf

64

Victor Grignard

French chemist (1871-1935)

*May 6th, 1871, Cherbourg †December 13th, 1935, 7th arrondissement of Lyon

Same year
Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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