6 May 1755

King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.

Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.

British barrister Mark Saunders was shot dead by police after a five-hour siege at his home in Chelsea, London.

Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer.

Time magazine published the article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" by Richard Behar criticizing the Church of Scientology, leading to years of legal conflict.

Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board.

At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor.

American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.

The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.

Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst Castle Garden.

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Aurora, anchored in McMurdo Sound, broke loose during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean for her 18-man crew.

Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Irish National Invincibles in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

U.S. president Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law (cartoon pictured), implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained for 61 years.

French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy.

Construction began on the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.

English poet Christopher Smart (pictured) was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement in mental asylums.

Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco.

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.

Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

In just 36 minutes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.

Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.

During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.

The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.