May 6

This day in history:

• 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
• 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1935 – New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
• 1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.

Births:

• 1998 – Luigi Mangione, suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
• 1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
• 1968 – Lætitia Sadier, French singer and keyboard player

Deaths:

• 1993 – Ann Todd, English actress and producer (b. 1909)
• 2012 – Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and author (b. 1924)
• 1951 – Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)

Holidays:

• Martyrs' Day (Gabon)
• National Azulejo Day (Portugal)
• The first day of Hıdırellez (Turkey)

Random Article of the day:

Nirupama Dutt

Iris sanguinea, blood iris, ayame (アヤメ, 菖蒲, 文目), xi sun (溪荪).

#BloomScrolling #IrisSanguinea #ayame #XiSun #BloodIris #FlowersOfMastodon #flowers #florespondence #PurpleFlowers #iris #May6 #JapaneseIris #溪荪

Celebrate nurses
National Nurse Day May 6
Superheros all

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Nurse #Nursing #NationalNursesDay #May6 #Superhero #Life #Medicine #Science #Education #Learning #Care #Dedication #Health #Nurses

May 6, 2025

May 6

This day in history:

• 1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
• 1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
• 2023 – The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.
• 2002 – Founding of SpaceX.

Births:

• 1968 – Lætitia Sadier, French singer and keyboard player
• 1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
• 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)

Deaths:

• 2014 – Wil Albeda, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Social Affairs (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1483 – Queen Jeonghui, Korean regent (b. 1418)

Holidays:

• The first day of Hıdırellez (Turkey)
• International No Diet Day
• National Azulejo Day (Portugal)

Random Article of the day:

Paul Daccobert

Paul Daccobert is a Canadian former soccer player who had stints in the USISL Pro League, and the Canadian Professional Soccer League.

Mistigram: if you’ve experienced medical treatment at any hospital, a #nurse certainly made a big difference in your outcome, so let’s follow AdeptApril’s lead with this #ANSIart screen and give it up for National Nurses Day!

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/adeptapril-may06/

#6May #AdeptApril #ANSIArt #ANSIart #may6 #nurse

Song of the Day May 6 2024

In honor of the birth of Willie Mays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mays

Willie Mays & the Treniers - “Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)”

https://youtu.be/wH8HPvs6SFo?si=rreV29pmctjaRAu3

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May6 #WillieMays #TheTreniers #SayHey #TheSayHeyKid #NewYorkGiants #SanFranciscoGiants #WarVet #Giants #MLB #HallOfFamer #24 #Music #1950s

Song of the Day May 6 2024

In honor of the birth of Willie Mays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mays

Willie Mays & the Treniers - “Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)”

https://youtu.be/wH8HPvs6SFo?si=rreV29pmctjaRAu3

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #May6 #WillieMays #TheTreniers #SayHey #TheSayHeyKid #NewYorkGiants #SanFranciscoGiants #WarVet #Giants #MLB #HallOfFamer #24 #Music #1950s

#OTD in 1996, Venetian gondoliers went on strike. They stopped serenading their customers when told this made them freelance musicians and therefore liable to pay into a state pension fund.

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 6 May:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/05/6-may.html

#ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #OnThisDate #6May #May6