Quick glance of 6 May in the pages of History

May 6: Here are the major events that occurred on 6 May….

• 6 May, 1527: Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome, ending the Renaissance
• 6 May, 1529: Babur Shah, Mughal Emperior, defeated Afghan Nawab Nasrat Shah, king of Bengal, on the banks of the Gand and the Ghaghra river.
• 6 May, 1542: Francis Xavier, the first Roman Catholic missionary to India, reached Old Goa
• 6 May, 1589: Mian Tansen, a prominent figure of North Indian (Hindustani) classical music and famous singer of Akbar’s court, died at Gwalior. Tansen is remembered for his epic Dhrupad compositions, creating several new ragas, as well as for writing two classic books on music Sri Ganesh Stotra and Sangita Sara.

• 6 May, 1680: Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned.
• 6 May, 1775: Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested.
• 6 May, 1840: World’s first adhesive postage stamp, the “Penny Black”, is first used in Great Britain
• 6 May, 1856: Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist was born
• 6 May, 1861: Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, was born
• 6 May, 1889: Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in Paris opens with the recently completed Eiffel Tower serving as the entrance arch
• 6 May, 1906: Tsar Nicolas II of Russia claims right to legislate by decree and restricts the power of the Duma (Russian Parliament)

• 6 May, 1909: Indian nationalist Sri Aurobindo acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case in Calcutta, India
• 6 May, 1910: Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, died suddenly of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace on that day. He ruled Britain for nine years. Power passed immediately to his son George, the Prince of Wales, who will rule as King George V. The 68-year-old monarch’s sudden death threw his country into a state of shock. Edward had apparently caught a cold during a visit the past weekend to the wet grounds of his estate at Sandringham.
• 6 May, 1941: Joseph Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union, replacing his foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov
• 6 May, 1944: Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
• 6 May, 1944: The Channel Tunnel linking the United Kingdom with France is opened. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurated the “Chunnel”. It measures just over 50 km (31 mi) and is the tunnel with the world’s longest undersea portion.

• 6 May, 1948: India rejected the Security Council’s plan for UN supervision over plebiscite in Kashmir.
• 6 May, 1952: Dr. Rajendra Prasad re-elected the President of India “Rashtrapati” after the first Presidential election held under the Indian constitution.
• 6 May, 1952: Maria Montessori, pioneer in modern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techniques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education.
• 6 May, 1967: Dr. Zakir Hussain elected President.
• 6 May, 1971: India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan’s civil war, which ultimately led to the creation of Bangladesh.
• 6 May, 2000: Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000.