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On May 6, 1104: King Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins the siege of Acre, then held by the Fatimids.

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King Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins the siege of Acre, then held by the Fatimids.

Baldwin I was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100 and king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death in 1118. He was the youngest son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida of Lorraine and married a Norman noblewoman, Godehilde of Tosny. He received the County of Verdun in 1096, but he soon joined the crusader army of his brother Godfrey of Bouillon and became one of the most successful commanders of the First Crusade.

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Born on May 6

Prince Archie of Sussex 2019– British prince (born 2019)
Sadie Sandler 2006– American actress (born 2006)
Cole Palmer 2002– English footballer (born 2002)
Angel Reese 2002– American basketball player (born 2002)
Pato O'Ward 1999– Mexican racing driver (born 1999)
Luigi Mangione 1998– American homicide suspect (born 1998)
Maymay Entrata 1997– Filipino actress and singer (born 1997)
Ranz Kyle 1997– Filipino YouTuber and dancer
Duncan Scott 1997– Scottish swimmer (born 1997)
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Mateo Kovačić 1994– Croatian footballer (born 1994)
Gustavo Gómez 1993– Paraguayan footballer (born 1993)
Naomi Scott 1993– English actress and singer (born 1993)
Brendan Gallagher 1992– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Baekhyun 1992– South Korean singer (born 1992)
Jonas Valančiūnas 1992– Lithuanian basketball player (born 1992)
Jose Altuve 1990– Venezuelan baseball player (born 1990)
Péter Gulácsi 1990– Hungarian footballer (born 1990)
Dominika Cibulková 1989– Slovak tennis player

People

Died on May 6

Ted Turner American media mogul (1938–2026)
Bernard Pivot French journalist (1935–2024)
Brian Wenzel Australian actor (1929–2024)
George Pérez American comic book artist and writer (1954–2022)
Kentaro Miura Japanese manga artist (1966–2021)
Patrick Ekeng Cameroonian footballer (1990–2016)
Reg Grundy Australian businessman (1923–2016)
Novera Ahmed Bangladeshi artist (1939 – 2015)
Denise McCluggage American journalist (1927–2015)
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Jim Wright American politician (1922–2015)
Wil Albeda Dutch politician (1925–2014)
William H. Dana NASA research pilot and astronaut (1930–2014)
Jimmy Ellis American boxer (1940–2014)
Billy Harrell American baseball player (1928–2014)
Antony Hopkins English composer, pianist and conductor (1921–2014)
Maria Lassnig Austrian artist (1919–2014)
Farley Mowat Canadian writer and environmentalist (1921–2014)
Giulio Andreotti Prime Minister of Italy (1972-73; 1976-79; 1989-1992)

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Every May 6 on record

  1. 1104 King Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins the siege of Acre, then held by the Fatimids.

    King of Jerusalem from 1100 to 1118

    Baldwin I was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100 and king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death in 1118. He was the youngest son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida of Lorraine and married a Norman noblewoman, Godehilde of Tosny. He received the County of Verdun in 1096, but he soon joined the crusader army of his brother Godfrey of Bouillon and became one of the most successful commanders of the First Crusade.

  2. 1527 Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.

    Habsburg siege and subsequent sack of Papal Rome

    The Sack of Rome, then part of the Papal States, followed the capture of Rome on 6 May 1527 by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, during the War of the League of Cognac. Charles V only intended to threaten military action to make Pope Clement VII come to his terms. However, the Imperial army were largely unpaid and mutinied.

  3. 1536 The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.

    1536–37 attempt by the Incan Empire to retake Cuzco from Spanish conquistadores

    The 10-month siege of Cusco by the Incan army under the command of Sapa Inca Manco Inca Yupanqui started on 6 May 1536 and ended in March 1537. The city was held by a garrison of Spanish conquistadors and Indian auxiliaries led by Hernando Pizarro. The Incans hoped to restore their empire (1438–1533) with this action, but it was ultimately unsuccessful.

  4. 1541 King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.

    King of England from 1509 to 1547

    Henry VIII was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. After the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry passed legislation that severed England and Ireland from the Roman Catholic Church and established the monarch as Supreme Head of the Church of England, initiating the English Reformation. He subsequently married five more times; two marriages were annulled, and two wives were executed.

  5. 1542 Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.

    Navarese Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)

    St. Francis Xavier , venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Navarrese cleric and missionary. He co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan.

  6. 1594 The Dutch city of Coevorden, held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force.
  7. 1659 English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
  8. 1682 Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
  9. 1757 Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
  10. 1757 The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
  11. 1757 English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
  12. 1782 Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
  13. 1801 Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
  14. 1835 James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
  15. 1840 The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
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  1. 1857 The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Indian Independence.
  2. 1861 American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
  3. 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a major defeat of the Union's Army of the Potomac under Joseph Hooker by the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee.
  4. 1877 Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
  5. 1882 Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
  6. 1882 The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
  7. 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
  8. 1901 The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper, is published.
  9. 1906 The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
  10. 1910 George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
  11. 1915 Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
  12. 1915 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY Aurora breaks loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.
  13. 1916 Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
  14. 1916 Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
  15. 1933 The Deutsche Studentenschaft attack Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.

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