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Historical events & facts — May 6
What happened on May 6?
On May 6, 1954, British athlete Roger Bannister became the first human being to run a mile in under four minutes, completing the distance in 3:59.4 in Oxford. The feat, which many considered physiologically impossible, was regarded as the greatest athletic achievement of the twentieth century. Curiously, within the next 46 days, another athlete also broke the four-minute barrier, showing it was a psychological rather than physical limit.
On May 6, 1994, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurated the Channel Tunnel — connecting Folkestone (UK) with Coquelles (France) through 50 km of tunnel under the sea. The engineering work, the largest in Europe in the twentieth century, took seven years to build and physically connected Great Britain to the European continent by land for the first time in 8,000 years.
On May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg (LZ 129) caught fire and was destroyed in 37 seconds while attempting to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 passengers and crew and one ground crew member. The disaster, broadcast live on radio, marked the end of the era of zeppelins as a means of transport. The causes of the fire remain debated.
Notable birthdays — May 6
Famous people born on May 6
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the voting rights of all men and their unimpeded admission to the National Guard.
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health.
Fidél Pálffy
Count Fidél Pálffy ab Erdőd was a Hungarian nobleman who emerged as a leading supporter of Nazism in Hungary.
Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson was a Swedish writer, poet and former sailor. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members of the academy.
Patricia Helen Kennedy
Patricia Helen Lawford was an American socialite. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy, as well as a sister-in-law of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Patricia wanted to be a film producer, a profession not readily open to young women in her time. She married English actor Peter Lawford in 1954, but they divorced in 1966.
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