King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
6 May 2037
A Wednesday in history
Weekday
Wednesday
Season
Spring (N. Hemisphere)
Century
21st century
Records
305
2023
2013Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.
2008British barrister Mark Saunders was shot dead by police after a five-hour siege at his home in Chelsea, London.
- 2004
The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.
1998Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer.
1991Time 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.
1988Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board.
- 1976
An earthquake struck Northern Italy, killing 990 people and injuring up to 3,000.
- 1975
About 100,000 Armenians gathered during a lull in fighting to mark the 60th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
1954At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
1942World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor.
1941American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.
1937The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
1930Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
1915Imperial 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.
1882Irish 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.
1882U.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.
1801French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy.
1782Construction began on the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.
1757English poet Christopher Smart (pictured) was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement in mental asylums.
1536Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco.
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