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 +==Events==
 +*[[1527]] &ndash; [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[Germany|German]] troops sack [[Rome]]; some consider this the end of the [[Renaissance]]. 147 [[Swiss Guards]], including their commander, die fighting the forces of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles V]] during the [[Sack of Rome]] in order to allow [[Pope]] [[Clement VII]] to escape into [[Castel Sant'Angelo]].
 +*[[1889]] - [[Exposition Universelle (1889)|Exposition Universelle]], world fair opens in Paris
 +*[[1933]] - [[Institut für Sexualwissenschaft]] (Institute for Sexual Research) destroyed by the Nazis
 +*[[1966]] - Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the [[Moors Murders]] in [[England]].
 +* [[2002 ]] - [[Netherlands|Dutch]] politician [[Pim Fortuyn]] is shot and killed by a left-wing extremist.
-== Art and culture ==+==Births==
-*[[1889]] - [[Exposition Universelle (1889)]], world fair opens in Paris+*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Charles Batteux]], French philosopher (d. 1780)
 +*[[1758]] &ndash; [[Maximilien Robespierre]], French Revolutionary (d. 1794)
 +*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Sigmund Freud]], Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
 +*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Gaston Leroux]], French writer (d. 1927)
 +*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Christian Morgenstern]], German author (d. 1914)
 +*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]], German painter (d. 1938)
 +*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Rudolph Valentino]], Italian actor (d. 1926)
 +*[[1902]] &ndash; [[Max Ophüls]], German-born director (d. 1957)
 +*[[1905]] &ndash; [[Carlo Mollino]], Italian architect and designer (d. 1973)
 +*[[1915]] &ndash; [[Orson Welles]], American director (d. 1985)
 +*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Raymond Fernandez|Martha Beck]], American convicted murderer (d. 1951)
 +*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Andreas Baader]], member of the Red Army Fraction (d. 1977)
 +*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Bob Seger]], American singer/songwriter
 +*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Martha Nussbaum]], American philosopher
 +*[[1961]] &ndash; [[George Clooney]], American actor
 +*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Leslie Hope]], Canadian actress
-== Births ==+==Deaths==
-== Deaths ==+*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Alexander von Humboldt]], German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
-== Notes==+*[[1862]] &ndash; [[Henry David Thoreau]], American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
-[[Sigmund Freud]] (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, who became interested in hypnotism and how it could be used to help the ...+*[[1910]] &ndash; King [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1841)
- +*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Maurice Maeterlinck]], Belgian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1862)
-[[Orson Welles]] (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) is commonly considered one of Hollywood's greatest directors, as well as a fine actor and screenwriter. ...+*[[1969]] - [[Don Drummond]], Jamaican musician (The Skatalites) (b. [[1932]])
- +*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Marlene Dietrich]], German actress (b. 1901)
-[[Marlene Dietrich]] (December 27, 1901 - May 6, 1992) was a German actress and singer. Born in Berlin, Dietrich played the violin before ...+*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Pim Fortuyn]], Dutch politician (b. 1948)
- +*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Curtis Harrington]], American film director (b. 1926)
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-[[Carlo Mollino]] (1905 - 1973)Carlo Mollino (May 6, 1905 - August 27, 1973) was an Italian architect and designer. Born in Turin, Italy, Carlo Mollino was the son of Eugenio Mollino, ...+
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-When the Nazis took power, one of their first actions, on May 6, 1933, was to destroy the [[Institut für Sexualwissenschaft]] (Institute for Sexual Research)and ...+
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-[[Gaston Leroux]] (May 6, 1868, Paris - April 15, 1927, Nice) was a French journalist and novelist. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing ...+
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-[[Max Ophüls]] (May 6, 1902 - March 25, 1957) was a German born film director. Max Ophüls was born as Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. ...+
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-[[Andreas Baader]] (May 6, 1944 - October 18, 1977) was the first leader of the German terrorist organization Red Army Faction, commonly known as the ...+
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-Blog - jahsonic.comA chance meeting between these two desperately lonely individuals reveals a common bond; their encounter takes place on May 6, 1938, the date of Hitler's ...+
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-May 6: Birth of [[Francois de Robespierre]], a leader of the French revolution,+

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