What Happened on my Birthday May 6

Today is May 6, the 126th day . There are 239 days left in the year. Did you ever wonder "What happened on my birthday May 6?" "What famous person was born on my birthday May 6", "What historical event took place on the day I was born, May 6?", " What does my birthday reveal about my personality ?" or "What special celebrations took place during my birth month, May?" This blog offers information about historical happenings, famous birthdays and Numerology

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May 6 Events


Today's Highlight in History: On May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a navy crewman on the ground.

What Happened on my Birthday May 6 in US

1859, Georgia miner John H. Gregory discovered a lode of gold in Colorado.
1861, ArKansas seceded from the Union.
1942, during World War II some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese.
1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin was named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
2004 An estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of "Friends" on NBC.
2008 Barack Obama swept to a convincing victory in the North Carolina Democratic primary while Hillary Rodham Clinton eked out a win in Indiana. A Georgia man who'd killed his live-in girlfriend was executed; William Earl Lynd was the first inmate put to death since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections.

What Happened on my Birthday May 6 in UK and Other History

1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower.
1910, Britain's King Edward VII died; he was succeeded by George V.
1954, medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in three minutes, 59.4 seconds.
1960, Britain's Princess Margaret married Antony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.)
1994, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally opened the Channel Tunnel between their countries.
1999 Reversing decades of overwhelming loyalty to Britain's governing Labour Party, Scottish and Welsh voters elected strong nationalist oppositions to their first separate assemblies of modern times.
2002, right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (pim fohr-TOWN') was shot and killed in Hilversum, Netherlands. (Volkert van der Graaf was later convicted of killing Fortuyn and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.)


Famous Birthdays

1856 Sigmund Freud
1895 Rudolph Valentino
1913 Actor Stewart Grainger
1915 Orson Welles
1931 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays
1945 Rock singer Bob Seger
1953 Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
1955 TV personality Tom Bergeron
1961 Actor George Clooney

What does my birthday reveal about my personality

Numerology was an accepted part of ancient mathematics and revolves around the study of numbers, with each number from 0 to 9 representing a different personality trait based on its association with planets and/or moons in our solar system.

May 6

6 is your primary birth path. You are A Caregiver, you feel a strong sense of responsibility, are idealistic and need to feel useful to be happy

To get your secondary birth path you need to work out your year
Example: if you were born in 1991 that is 1+9+9+1=20 which is 2+0=2
so add month 5 to day 6 to your year calculation. In this example 5+6+2=13 which is 1+3=4
so you are also the most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals, a Pragmatist.

Note 11 is 11 not 1+1=2 and 22 is 22 not 2+2=4 Number 1 = One who has a need for personal attainment or an Achiever. Number 2 = One who clearly sees the full spectrum of viewpoints in any argument or situation, Idealist. Number 3 = Artist, one that emphasizes expression, sociability, and creativity. Number 4 = The most trustworthy, practical, and down-to-earth of individuals, a Pragmatist. Number 5 = An Opportunist, one of those people who is always striving to find answers to the many questions that life poses. Number 6 = A Caregiver, you feel a strong sense of responsibility, are idealistic and need to feel useful to be happy. Number 7 = A Seeker, one with a peaceful and affectionate soul. Number 8 = Affluent, one who is very independent, forceful and competitive. Number 9 = A Philosopher, a person with compassion, generosity, and a very humanitarian attitude. Number 11 = A Visionary, one with spiritual awareness, understanding and knowledge beyond the grasp of others. Number 22 = A Global Thinker, the most powerful of all the Life Path numbers. This individual can achieve enormous success, prestige, and fame if they have the desire and willingness to achieve it.


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