Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 6
On May 6:
- 1527 - Rome was sacked, marking the symbolic end of the Renaissance.
- 1861 - Arkansas seceded from the Union in the American Civil War.
- 1910 - George V became King of the United Kingdom upon his father's death.
- 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg, upon landing in Lakehurst, New Jersey, caught fire and was destroyed, killing 36.
- 1941 - At California's March Field, Bob Hope performed his first USO show.
- 1954 - Roger Bannister ran the first four minute mile.