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Today is May 6.

International No Diet Day is observed today.


Events

1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.

1877 – Chief Crazy Horse



of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.

1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

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

1915 – Babe Ruth



then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.

1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.

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

1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.

1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.

1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.

1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.

1954 – Roger Bannister



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

1965 - In their Clearwater, Florida hotel room, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards worked out the opening guitar riff of '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' following Richard's purchase of a Gibson fuzz-box earlier that day.

1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts.

1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.

2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.

2002 - 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen was voted the UK's favourite single of all time in a poll by the Guinness Hit Singles book. 'Imagine' by John Lennon was voted in at No.2 and 'Hey Jude', The Beatles No.3, 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA was fourth and Madonna's 'Like A Prayer' was in fifth place.

2002 - American songwriter and producer Otis Blackwell died from a heart attack. He wrote the classic songs ‘All Shook Up’, ‘Return To Sender’, ‘Don't Be Cruel’, ‘Great Balls Of Fire’ and ‘Fever.’ Over the years, Blackwell's songs have sold more than 185 million copies.

2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio.



1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, 1856 – Sigmund Freud, 1856 – Robert Peary, 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, 1903 – Toots Shor, 1913 – Stewart Granger, 1915 – Orson Welles, 1929 – Rosemary Cramp (invented cramps), 1931 – Willie Mays, 1937 – Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, 1945 – Bob Seger, 1950 – Robbie McIntosh, 1953 – Tony Blair, 1955 – Tom Bergeron, 1960 – Roma Downey, 1961 – George Clooney, 1983 – Gabourey Sidibe



1862 – Henry David Thoreau, 1882 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, 1902 – Bret Harte, 1919 – L. Frank Baum, 1952 – Maria Montessori, 1983 – Kai Winding, 1987 – William J. Casey, 1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White (My Fair Lady), 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, 2004 – Barney Kessel(member of The Wrecking Crew), 2016 – Reg Grundy (created Wheel Of Fortune)