May 6th, 1956

Born on May 6th, 1956

Age in days, weeks and months
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What 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, 1954

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

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.

May 6th, 1906

The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).

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

Born on May 6th, 1956

67

Barbara Krug

East German sprinter

*May 6th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Roland Wieser

East German athlete

*May 6th, 1956, Zschopau

67

Cindy Lovell

American educator and writer

*May 6th, 1956, Altoona

67

Lakis Lazopoulos

Greek actor, script writer, producer, tv presenter, columnist, writer, song writer and executant

*May 6th, 1956, Larissa

67

Sujata Bhatt

Indian poet

*May 6th, 1956, Ahmedabad

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

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

71

Christian Clavier

French actor and screenwriter

*May 6th, 1952, Paris

63

Anne Parillaud

French actress

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

63

Martina Jäschke

East German diver

*May 6th, 1960, Merseburg

69

Marie-Aude Murail

French writer

*May 6th, 1954, Le Havre

83

Sigmund Freud

Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)

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

61

Mario Kummer

East German racing cyclist and team manager

*May 6th, 1962, Suhl

66

Gabriele Fograscher

German politician

*May 6th, 1957, Nördlingen

64

George Tintor

Canadian rower

*May 6th, 1957, Toronto †May 30th, 2021

19

Rayhan Fadillah

Badminton player

*May 6th, 2004, Tanah Bumbu Regency

55

Lætitia Sadier

French singer

*May 6th, 1968, Vincennes

65

Lolita Flores

Spanish actress and singer

*May 6th, 1958, Madrid

40

Daniel Alves

Former Brazilian Football Federation player

*May 6th, 1983, Juazeiro

66

Fred Roggin

American sportscaster

*May 6th, 1957, Detroit

Same year
Born in 1956

68

Peter Hook

English musician

*February 13th, 1956, Salford

67

Charles M. Huber

German actor and politician

*December 3rd, 1956, Munich

68

Sheila McCarthy

Canadian actress

*January 1st, 1956, Toronto

67

Stephan Barratt-Due

Norwegian musician

*June 1st, 1956, Oslo

67

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

*July 9th, 1956, Concord

67

Theresa May

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019

*October 1st, 1956, Eastbourne

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

60

Carrie Fisher

American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)

*October 21st, 1956, Burbank †December 27th, 2016, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

23

Ian Curtis

British musician (1956–1980)

*July 15th, 1956, Stretford †May 18th, 1980, Macclesfield

67

Valgerd Svarstad Haugland

Norwegian politician

*August 23rd, 1956, Kvam Municipality

67

Ulrike Meyfarth

German former high jumper

*May 4th, 1956, Frankfurt

67

Martyn Ware

English musician

*May 19th, 1956, Sheffield

68

Gunnar Brands

German classical archaeologist

*March 30th, 1956, Duisburg

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

68

Michel Houellebecq

French writer

*February 26th, 1956, Saint-Pierre

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

62

Minken Fosheim

Norwegian actress (1956-2018)

*March 20th, 1956, Oslo †June 7th, 2018, Oslo

68

Imelda Staunton

English actress (born 1956)

*January 9th, 1956, London

67

Andreas Bornschein

German association football player

*November 29th, 1956, Leipzig

67

Han Jian

Chinese badminton player

*July 6th, 1956, Liaoning

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Born on May 6th, 1956
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Leap year

Yes: 1956 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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