From the past - May 6

Published Tuesday May 6th, 2008

1527 Spanish & German Imperial troops hired by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna sack Rome, forcing Pope Clement VII to flee disguised as a gardener; this ends the Renaissance

1536 King Henry VIII orders a Bible be placed in every church

1626 Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets

1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow

1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"

1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock

1856 Sigmund Freud, father of psycho-analysis, is born in Freiberg, Moravia

1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris, France; Eiffel Tower completed

1910 Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68; King George V ascends to the throne

1914 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage

1941 Joseph Stalin becomes premier of Russia

1953 Tony Blair, British PM (Labour, 1997-2007) is born

1957 Last broadcast of I Love Lucy on CBS-TV

1960 England's Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)

1968 Battle between students & troops in Paris France, 1,000 injured

1988 Doughnutgate: New Jersey Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to ‘eat another doughnut, you fat pig!' He is suspended.

1994 Chunnel linking England & France officially opens

1994 Nelson Mandela & his ANC finally confirmed winners in South Africa

1997 NHL Hartford Whalers become Carolina Hurricanes

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