May 6th, 2004

Born on May 6th, 2004

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 8,000 days old!

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What happened on May 6th?

May 6th, 1942

World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor.

May 6th, 1930

Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst Castle Garden.

May 6th, 1998

Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer.

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, 2010

Exacerbated by high-frequency traders using strategies that have since been banned, major U.S. stock indices dropped nearly 9 percent and quickly rebounded.

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 in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.

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

Same year
Born in 2004

22

Rosita Reijnhout

Dutch cyclist

*April 8th, 2004, Wolphaartsdijk

22

Nienke Veenhoven

Dutch cyclist

*March 20th, 2004, Oostzaan

22

You Young

South Korean figure skater

*May 27th, 2004, Seoul

22

Kuo Kuan-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*February 3rd, 2004, Kaohsiung

22

Grace VanderWaal

American singer-songwriter

*January 15th, 2004, Lenexa

22

Victor Wembanyama

French basketball player

*January 4th, 2004, Le Chesnay

22

Krisia Todorova

Bulgarian singer

*June 1st, 2004, Varna

21

Letizia Roscher

German figure skater

*October 7th, 2004, Chemnitz

21

Liam Kapeikis

American figure skater

*June 28th, 2004, Wenatchee

22

Savika Refa Zahira

Indonesian figure skater

*April 4th, 2004, Jakarta

21

Stephen Gogolev

Canadian figure skater

*December 22nd, 2004, Toronto

22

Charli D'Amelio

American social media personality

*May 1st, 2004, Norwalk

22

Millie Bobby Brown

British actress and model

*February 19th, 2004, Marbella

21

Edward Appleby

British figure skater

*December 21st, 2004, Colchester

22

Peyton Elizabeth Lee

American actress

*May 22nd, 2004, New York City

21

Noah Schnapp

American actor (born 2004)

*October 3rd, 2004, New York City

22

Amira Willighagen

Dutch-South African singer

*March 27th, 2004, Nijmegen

21

Alejandro Garnacho

Argentine association football player

*July 1st, 2004, Córdoba

22

Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Norwegian princess

*January 21st, 2004, Rikshospitalet

22

Jonny Edgar

British racing driver (born 2004)

*February 13th, 2004, Whitehaven

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Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on May 6th.

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Leap year

Yes: 2004 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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