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Events on May 6

• 1682 Louis XIV of France moves his court from Paris to the Palace of Versailles. Versailles thus becomes the official seat of government of France.
• 1840 The world's first postage stamp, the One Penny Black, which has been issued in Great Britain since May 1, becomes valid.
• 1889 In Paris, the Exposition Universelle is officially opened. The landmark of the World's Fair, which is held at the Champ de Mars, the Jardins du Trocadéro, the Quai d’Orsay and on the Seine, among other locations, is the highly controversial Eiffel Tower. The Galerie des Machines becomes a draw for the public.
• 1929 In response to Bloody May, Carl Severing, the Social Democratic Minister of the Interior of the Weimar Republic, bans the communist paramilitary organizations Red Front Fighters’ League (RFB), Red Youth Front (RJ) and Red Navy nationwide on the grounds that they had provoked the riots.
• 1945 Kurt Schumacher becomes the first chairman of a local SPD in Hanover after the end of the National Socialist regime in Germany, although the formation of parties is still prohibited in the British-occupied zone.
• 1954 Roger Bannister, a British medical student, becomes the first person to run the English mile (1609.35 meters) in under four minutes (3:59.4 min) in Oxford.
• 1971 On the factory premises in Ottobrunn, MBB presents the first prototype of a magnetic levitation train for passenger transport. The new mode of transport, Transrapid, begins to take shape.
• 1974 After a meeting of the SPD leadership at the Kurt-Schumacher Academy in Bad Münstereifel, Willy Brandt officially announces his resignation as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany to his cabinet because of the affair involving the GDR agent Günter Guillaume.
• 1990 In the first free local elections in the German Democratic Republic, the CDU emerges as the strongest force ahead of the SPD and the PDS, but it nevertheless has to accept a loss of votes compared with the People's Chamber election on March 18.
• 2010 The Topography of Terror Documentation Center in Berlin, near Potsdamer Platz, is officially opened by Federal President Horst Köhler.
• 2017 An attempt organized by the company Nike to run the marathon distance in under 2:00 hours falls just short. Eliud Kipchoge needs 26 seconds longer than intended.
• 2023 Charles III is crowned King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Born on May 6

• 1856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and psychoanalyst
• 1871 Christian Morgenstern, German poet and writer
• 1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter and printmaker
• 1921 Erich Fried, Austrian lyric poet, translator and essayist
• 1932 Johannes Gross, German publicist and journalist
• 1950 Jeffery Deaver, American writer
• 1960 Anne Parillaud, French film actress
• 1971 Till Brönner, German composer and musician
• 1980 Wolke Hegenbarth, German actress
• 2002 Cole Palmer, English footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „6. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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