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On This Day: May 6

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On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

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On May 6, 1915, Orson Welles, the American motion-picture actor, director, producer and writer who combined his talents in the highly regarded movie "Citizen Kane," was born. Following his death on Oct. 10, 1985, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1856	Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was born in Freiberg, Moravia (present-day Pribor, Czech Republic).
1840	A tornado that touched down in eastern Louisiana and crossed the Mississippi River into Natchez, Miss., killed 317 people - most of them on boats in the river.
1861	Arkansas seceded from the Union.
1882	Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese immigrants from the United States for 10 years.
1889	The Paris Exposition opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
1910	Britain's King Edward VII died.
1915	Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit the first of his 714 major league home runs in a 4-3 loss to the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.
1942	Some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese during World War II.
1954	Roger Bannister became the first athlete to run a mile in less than four minutes, finishing in 3:59.4 during a track meet in Oxford, England.
1960	Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)
2001	Pope John Paul II, during a trip to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002	Right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands.
2002	"Spider-Man" became the first movie to make more than $100 million in its opening weekend.
2004	The final first-run episode of "Friends" aired on NBC.
2007	Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy was elected president of France.

Current Birthdays

Actor George Clooney turns 50 years old today.

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Adrianne Palicki, Actress (“Friday Night Lights”)

Actress Adrianne Palicki ("Friday Night Lights") turns 28 years old years old today.

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1931	Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 80
1961	George Clooney, Actor, turns 50
1945	Bob Seger, Rock musician, turns 66
1947	Alan Dale, Actor, turns 64
1953	Tony Blair, Former British prime minister, turns 58
1955	Tom Bergeron, TV host ("Dancing with the Stars"), turns 56
1960	Roma Downey, Actress ("Touched by an Angel"), turns 51
1972	Martin Brodeur, Hockey player, turns 39
1983	Gabourey Sidibe, Actress ("Precious"), turns 28

Historic Birthdays

Orson Welles5/6/1915 - 10/10/1985American movie actor, director, producer and writer.Go to obituary »

36	Maximilien Robespierre 5/6/1758 - 7/28/1794 French Jacobin leader and a principal figure in the French Revolution
89	Abraham Jacobi 5/6/1830 - 7/10/1919 German-born physician and pioneer in the field of pediatric medicine
83	Sigmund Freud 5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis
63	Robert Peary 5/6/1856 - 2/20/1920 American arctic explorer; led the first expedition to the North Pole
79	John McCutcheon 5/6/1870 - 6/10/1949 American newspaper cartoonist and writer
84	William Leahy 5/6/1875 - 7/20/1959 American admiral; chief of staff during World War II
58	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 5/6/1880 - 6/15/1938 German Expressionist painter and printmaker
78	Stanley Morison 5/6/1889 - 10/11/1967 English typographer and scholar
31	Rudolph Valentino 5/6/1895 - 8/23/1926 Italian-born American silent screen actor
75	Lew Christensen 5/6/1909 - 10/9/1984 American dancer, teacher and choreographer
71	Theodore H. White 5/6/1915 - 5/15/1986 American journalist, historian and novelist