May 6 is the 126nd day of the year (127rd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

6 May 1899 An agreement was reached on the Baghdad Railway concession among the representatives of the German-owned Deusche Bank, the French-owned Ottoman Bank, the German-owned Anatolian Railway Company and the French-owned Izmir-Kasaba Company. The share of the French in the Baghdad Railway was 40.
6 May 1942 Law No. 4219 on the transfer of Erzurum-Karabıyık khans to the Ministry of National Defense has entered into force.

Events

1536 - King of England VIII. Henry ordered that English Bibles be kept in all churches in the country.
1877 – Crazy Horse, chief of the Sioux Indians (Crazy Horse), surrendered to US troops in Nebraska.
1889 - The Eiffel Tower was opened to visitors.
1889 – The International Paris Fair, attended by the Ottoman Empire, started.
1927 – Istanbul Radio started its first broadcast in the basement of the Great Post Office building in Sirkeci.
1930 – In the 7,2 magnitude earthquake that occurred in Hakkari, 2514 people died.
1936 – Ankara State Conservatory, Turkey's first conservatory, was established in Ankara.
1937 - The Hindenburg, the world's largest airship, caught fire and crashed shortly after takeoff. After the accident in which 36 people died, this transportation method was abandoned.
1940 - John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (Grapes of Wrath) won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel.
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan were executed in Ankara Central Closed Prison.
1976 – An earthquake in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy killed 989 people.
1983 – in West Germany Star The journals of Adolf Hitler found by the magazine turned out to be fake.
1988 – A passenger plane crashes in Norway: 36 people die.
1994 – The Channel Tunnel was opened under the English Channel, connecting England and France by sea.
1996 - The body of former CIA Director William Colby is found in a river in southern Maryland.
1996 – Mehmet Ağar, Minister of Justice of the Highway Government, published a circular on prisons. The regulation, known as the "May Circular", was met with a reaction in prisons. Political prisoners and convicts started a hunger strike on 20 May. 12 people died. The agreement was reached on 27 July.
2001 – Pope Pope II visiting a mosque during a trip to Syria. Jan Pol became the first Pope to set foot in a mosque.
2002 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin is elected Prime Minister of France.
2002 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was killed in an assassination attempt.
2004 – One of the 4 most watched television series in the world. Friends finished. The last episode was watched by 2 million people in the USA.
2019 – YSK (Supreme Election Board) evaluated the extraordinary objection of the AK Party and decided to cancel the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality elections. Ekrem İmamoğluHis license was revoked. June 23, 2019 has been determined as the election date to be renewed.

Births

1501 – II. Marcellus was the Pope for a very short period of 5 days, between April 1 and May 1555, 20 (d. 1555)
1574 – X. Innocentius, 236th Pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1655)
1635 – Johann Joachim Becher, German physicist, alchemist, and scholar (d. 1682)
1668 Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747)
1756 – Everard Home, English surgeon (d. 1832)
1758 – André Masséna, one of the leading French generals of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (d. 1817)
1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
1856 – Robert Peary, American explorer and first person to set foot in the North Pole (d. 1920)
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian activist (d. 1931)
1868 Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (d. 1927)
1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (d. 1935)
1872 – Ahmet Cemal Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician (d. 1922)
1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (d. 1926)
1902 – Max Ophüls, German-French film director and writer (d. 1957)
1908 – Necil Kazım Akses, Turkish symphonic music composer (d. 1999)
1912 – Ellen Preis, Austrian fencer (d. 2007)
1915 – Orson Welles, American director and Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay (d. 1985)
1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American scientist (d. 2007)
1932 – Konrad Ragossnig, Austrian classical guitarist, educator, and lute player (d. 2018)
1932 – Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English politician, writer, artist and businessman (d. 2020)
1934 – Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician
1935 – Efkan Efekan, Turkish film actor (d. 2005)
1937 – Rubin Carter, American boxer (d. 2014)
1938 – Larry Gogan, Irish radio host and DJ (d. 2020)
1943 – Andreas Baader, one of the leading leaders of the Red Army Faction in Germany (d. 1977)
1944 – Carl I. Hagen, Norwegian politician and Deputy Speaker of the Norwegian Parliament
1947 - Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and associate professor in law and philosophy at the University of Chicago
1949 – Sezer Güvenirgil, Turkish actress and singer
1950 – Jeffery Deaver, American mystery-crime writer
1952 – Christian Clavier, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1953 – Alexander Akimov, Soviet engineer (d. 1986)
1953 - Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister
1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish football player, manager
1954 – Dora Bakoyannis, Greece's first female Foreign Minister, former MP and Mayor of Athens
1954 – Jan Vering, German gospel singer, journalist, and playwright (d. 2021)
1955 – Süheyl Batum, Turkish lawyer and politician
1958 – Haluk Ulusoy, Turkish businessman and sports manager
1960 – Roman Downey, English-American actress, producer, and singer
1960 – Anne Parillaud, French actress
1961 – George Clooney, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1961 – Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician
1971 – Doğanay, Turkish singer
1971 – Chris Shiflett, American musician
1972 – Naoko Takahashi, Japanese former athlete
1976 – Iván de la Peña, Spanish national football player
1979 – Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower
1980 – Dimitris Diamandidis, Greek basketball player
1980 – Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian football player
1983 – Dani Alves, Brazilian national football player
1983 – Doron Perkins, American professional basketball player
1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
1984 – Juan Pablo Carrizo, Argentine national football player
1985 – Chris Paul, American professional basketball player
1986 – Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player
1987 – Dries Mertens, Belgian football player
1987 – Meek Mill, American rapper
1988 – Ryan Anderson, American basketball player
1988 – Dakota Kai, professional female wrestler from New Zealand
1992 – Byun Baek-hyun, South Korean singer and member of Exo music group
1992 – Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian professional basketball player
1992 – Nilay Aydoğan, Turkish basketball player (d. 2023)
1993 – Kim Dasom, South Korean singer, member of the group Sistar, and actor
1993 – Gustavo Gómez, Paraguayan football player
1994 – Mateo Kovacic, Croatian national football player
2019 – Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, son of Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, World War II. Elizabeth's granddaughter

Deaths

680 – Muawiya, Caliph, and founder of the Umayyad Dynasty (b. 602)
1709 – II. Alvise Mocenigo, duke of the Republic of Venice (b. 1628)
1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author (b. 1817)
1862 – Pedro Gual Escandón, Venezuelan lawyer, politician, and diplomat (b. 1783)
1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
1889 – Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, German orchidologist (b. 1823)
1910 – VII. Edward, King of Great Britain (b. 1841)
1932 – Paul Doumer, President of France (b. 1857)
1933 – Li Ching-Yuen, Chinese herbalist, martial artist, and strategist (b. 1677/1736)
1947 – Cafer Sayilir, Turkish politician (b. 1888)
1951 – Henri Carton de Wiart, 23rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1869)
1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
1955 – Hüseyin Saadettin Arel, Turkish composer (b. 1880)
1963 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (b. 1881)
1970 – Feyhaman Duran, Turkish painter and calligrapher (one of İbrahim Çallı generation painters) (b. 1886)
1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Marxist-Leninist militant and student leader (co-founder of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey), (executed) (b. 1947)
1972 – Fulbert Youlou, Congolese politician (b. 1917)
1972 – Hüseyin Inan, Turkish Marxist-Leninist militant and co-founder of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (Executed) (b. 1949)
1972 – Yusuf Aslan, Turkish Marxist-Leninist militant and co-founder of the People's Liberation Army of Turkey (Executed) (b. 1947)
1980 – Lola Cornero, Dutch film actress (b. 1892)
1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (b. 1901)
1993 – Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
1996 – Haluk Eczacıbaşı, Turkish businessperson and retired Eczacıbaşı Holding Board Member (b. 1921)
2002 – Fayina Petryakova, academician, professor of ethnography at the Lviv Academy of Arts (b. 1931)
2006 – Erdal Öz, Turkish writer and publisher (founder of Can Publishing) (b. 1935)
2007 – Nükhet Ruacan, Turkish jazz artist (b. 1951)
2009 – Sima Eyvazova, Azerbaijani diplomat (b. 1933)
2012 – Lubna Agha, Pakistani/American artist (b. 1949)
2012 – Fahd al-Kuso, Yemeni Islamist (b. 1974)
2012 – Yale Summers, American actress (b. 1933)
2013 – Giulio Andreotti, Italian Christian Democrat politician (multiple Prime Minister of Italy from 1972-1992) (b. 1919)
2014 – Jimmy Ellis, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1940)
2015 – Errol Brown, British-Jamaican musician and singer (b. 1943)
2016 – Hannes Bauer, German jazz musician and trombonist (b. 1954)
2016 – Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian national football player (b. 1990)
2016 – Margot Honecker, East German Education Minister 1963-1989 (b. 1927)
2017 – Steven Holcomb, American toboggan (b. 1980)
2017 – Val Jellay, Australian character actor, singer, dancer and writer (b. 1927)
2018 – Jack Chamangwana, Malawian international football player and manager (b. 1957)
2018 – Paolo Ferrari, Italian actor (b. 1929)
2019 – Pekka Airaksinen, Finnish electronic, jazz musician and composer (b. 1945)
2019 – Max Azria, Tunisian-American fashion designer (b. 1949)
2019 – Anur Abu Bakar, Malaysian football player and coach (b. 1971)
2019 – Gjermund Eggen, Norwegian ex-skier (b. 1941)
2019 – John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (b. 1924)
2019 – Celil Oker, Turkish crime novel writer (b. 1952)
2020 – Chrystelle Trump Bond, American dancer, choreographer, art historian, and author (b. 1938)
2020 – Dmitri Bosov, Russian industrialist and businessman (b. 1968)
2020 – Brian Howe, English rock singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1953)
2020 – Nahum Rabinovitch, Canadian-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi (b. 1928)
2020 – Jacques Reymond, Swiss ski coach (b. 1950)

Holidays and special occasions

Turkish-Islamic World – Hıdırellez Festival