Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 6
May 6: Lag Ba'omer in Judaism (2007); St George's Day in Bulgaria
- 1682 - King Louis XIV of France took up residence in the Château de Versailles.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia, led by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, scored a decisive Confederate victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville.
- 1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire (pictured) and was destroyed at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.
- 1954 - Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1994 - The Channel Tunnel, a 51 km (31 mile) long rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover, officially opened.