A bit of May 6th history…
1527 - End of Renaissance: Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome
1541 - King Henry VIII orders a bible in English placed in every church
1626 - Dutch colonist Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 60 guilders worth of goods
1837 - US blacksmith, John Deere, creates the 1st steel plough
1937 - Hindenburg explodes at Lakehurst, NJ killing 35 out of 97 passengers (pictured)
1994 - Nelson Mandela and the ANC confirmed as winners in S Africa’s first post-apartheid election
2013 - US Senate passes bill enabling taxing of online sales
May 06, 2021 at 05:01AM