May 6

1536 – Incan forces under the command of Sapa Inca Manco Yupanqui, begin a near year long and ultimately failure of a siege in the attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish Conquistadores led by Hernando Pizarro

1541 – King Henry VIII orders English language Bibles be placed in every church.

1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.

1861 – Arkansas secedes from the Union.

1863 – The Battle of Chancellorsville during the Civil War ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.

1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to U.S troops at the Red Cloud Indian Agency at Fort Robinson Nebraska near the modern town of Crawford.

1882 – President Chester Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act into law, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

1915 – Boston Red Sox Pitcher, George ‘Babe’ Ruth,  hits his first major league home run off New York Yankee Pitcher, Jack Warhop at the Polo Grounds field in New York City.

1935 – Under the authority of the newly enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.

1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within 1 minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey killing 36 people.

1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

1941 – Lowry P. Brabham pilots the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt on its maiden flight at Farmingdale, New York.

1942 – Under siege since December of the previous year, U.S. forces finally surrender Corregidor island to the Japanese.

1945 – Axis Sally – American Mildred Elizabeth Gillars – delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.

1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes at Oxford University’s Iffley Road Track.

1998 – Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac computer.

2010 – Using a computer controlled trading program, British financial trader Navinder Singh Sarao causes the Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index to crash nearly 1000 points, in less than 36 minutes, before recovering by the end of the day.

2013 – 1 of 3 women, kidnapped by Ariel Castro between 2002 and 2004, manages to escape with her daughter (born in captivity) and leads Police back to rescue the other 2 women held captive in a house in Cleveland, Ohio.