On this day | May 6th

On this day: May 6th

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1527 Spanish and German troops Sack of Rome (1527); many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.

1536 The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Inca Empire forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.

1541 King Henry VIII of England orders Bible translations into English be placed in every church. In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.

1542 Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.

1594 The Dutch city of Coevorden held by the Spanish, Siege of Coevorden (1593).

1659 Restoration (England): A Wallingford House party of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.

1682 Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.

1757 Battle of Prague (1757): A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.

1757 The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).

1757 English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart to Psychiatric hospital.

1782 Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the Monarchy of Thailand in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

1801 Captain Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald in the 14-gun Action of 6 May 1801 the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.

1835 James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the ''New York Herald''.

1840 The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1857 The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Independence of 1857.

1861 American Civil War: Arkansas in the American Civil War secedes from the Union (American Civil War).

1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.

1877 Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.

1882 Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant) and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park Murders.

1882 The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.

1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris.

1901 The first issue of ''Gorkhapatra,'' the oldest still running state-owned Nepali language newspaper was published.

1906 The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).

1910 George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.

1915 Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.

1915 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY Aurora SY Aurora's drift, beginning a 312-day ordeal.

1916 Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.

1916 Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.

1933 The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.

1935 New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.

1937 Hindenburg disaster: The Nazi Germany zeppelin ''Hindenburg'' catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.

1940 John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel ''The Grapes of Wrath''.

1941 At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first United Service Organizations show.

1941 The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.

1942 World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines Battle of Corregidor to the Japanese.

1945 World War II: Mildred Gillars delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allies of World War II troops.

1945 World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front (World War II), begins.

1949 Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, the first practical electronic digital Von Neumann architecture, runs its first operation.

1954 Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the Middle distance track event # Mile in four-minute mile.

1960 More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised Wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones when Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon marries Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon at Westminster Abbey.

1966 Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to Life imprisonment (England and Wales) for the Moors murders in England.

1972 Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.

1975 During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut for the 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide commemorations in Beirut of the Armenian genocide.

1976 The 6.5 1976 Friuli earthquake affected Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale of X (''Extreme''), leaving 900–978 dead and 1,700–2,400 injured.

1983 The ''Hitler Diaries'' are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.

1984 One hundred and three Korean Martyrs are Canonization by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.

1988 All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Torghatten in Brønnøy.

1994 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

1996 The body of former Central Intelligence Agency director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.

1997 The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.

1998 Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.

1998 Steve Jobs of Apple Inc.. unveils the first iMac.

1999 The first elections to the devolution Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.

2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.

2002 Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassination of Pim Fortuyn following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.

2002 Founding of SpaceX.

2004 The The Last One (Friends) of the television sitcom Friends was aired.

2010 In just 36 minutes, the Dow-Jones average plunged nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 flash crash.

2013 Ariel Castro kidnappings, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

2023 The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as Monarchy of the United Kingdom and List of British royal consorts of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.

2023 Eight people are killed and seven injured in Allen Premium Outlets shooting in Allen, Texas. The perpetrator is killed by a police officer.

973 Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1024)

1464 Sophia Jagiellon, Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Polish princess (d. 1512)

1493 Girolamo Seripando, Italian theologian and cardinal (d. 1563)

1501 Pope Marcellus II, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1555)

1574 Pope Innocent X, pope of the Catholic Church (d. 1655)

1580 Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, French noble (d. 1637)

1635 Johann Joachim Becher, German physician and alchemist (d. 1682)

1668 Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (d. 1747)

1680 Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French cellist and composer (d. 1755)

1713 Charles Batteux, French philosopher and academic (d. 1780)

1714 Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797)

1742 Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist (d. 1809)

1758 André Masséna, French general (d. 1817)

1758 Maximilien Robespierre, French politician (d. 1794)

1769 Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)

1769 Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)

1781 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher and author (d. 1832)

1797 Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)

1800 Roman Sanguszko, Polish general (d. 1881)

1827 Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (d. 1891)

1836 Max Eyth, German engineer and author (d. 1906)

1843 Grove Karl Gilbert, American geologist and academic (d. 1918)

1848 Henry Edward Armstrong, English chemist and academic (d. 1937)

1851 Aristide Bruant, French singer and actor (d. 1925)

1856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst (d. 1939)

1856 Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (d. 1920)

1861 Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1931)

1868 Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (d. 1927)

1869 Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (d. 1932)

1870 Walter Rutherford (golfer), Scottish golfer (d. 1936)

1871 Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1935)

1871 Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet (d. 1914)

1872 Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1934)

1872 Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general (d. 1922)

1879 Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)

1879 Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (d. 1929)

1880 Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator (d. 1959)

1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter (d. 1938)

1883 Alberto Collo, Italian actor (d. 1955)

1895 Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author (d. 1974)

1895 Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Minister of Agriculture (Hungary) (d. 1946)

1895 Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (d. 1926)

1896 Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic (d. 1966)

1897 Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (d. 1979)

1898 Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (d. 1945)

1902 Max Ophüls, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1957)

1903 Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (d. 1977)

1904 Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (d. 1984)

1904 Catherine Lacey, English actress (d. 1979)

1904 Harry Martinson, Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1978)

1906 André Weil, French mathematician and academic (d. 1998)

1907 Peter Barnes (Irish republican), Executed Irish Republican (d. 1940)

1907 Weeb Ewbank, American football player and coach (d. 1998)

1911 Guy des Cars, French journalist and author (d. 1993)

1913 Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (d. 1989)

1913 Stewart Granger, English-American actor (d. 1993)

1915 Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1985)

1915 Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author (d. 1986)

1916 Robert H. Dicke, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1997)

1918 Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, emir of Abu Dhabi and first president of the United Arab Emirates (d. 2004)

1920 Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2004)

1923 Harry Watson (ice hockey b. 1923), Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)

1924 Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 2014)

1924 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite, activist, and author (d. 2006)

1924 Denny Wright, English guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1992)

1929 Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2023)

1929 Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 2007)

1931 Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach

1932 Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English lieutenant and politician (d. 2020)

1934 Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician

1937 Rubin Carter, American-Canadian boxer (d. 2014)

1942 Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic

1943 Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)

1943 Milton William Cooper, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 2001)

1943 James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator

1944 Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player

1945 Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American country singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer

1945 Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1947 Alan Dale, New Zealand actor

1947 Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher and author

1950 Jeffery Deaver, American journalist and author

1951 Samuel Doe, Liberian sergeant and politician, 21st President of Liberia (d. 1990)

1952 Chiaki Mukai, Japanese physician and astronaut

1952 Gerrit Zalm, Dutch economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands

1953 Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant worker (d. 1986)

1953 Tony Blair, British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1953 Graeme Souness, Scottish international footballer and manager

1954 Dora Bakoyannis, Greek politician, 120th Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece)

1955 Tom Bergeron, American television host

1955 John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Defence

1959 Charles Hendry, English politician

1960 Keith Dowding, English political scientist, philosopher, and academic

1960 Roma Downey, Irish-American actress and producer

1960 John Flansburgh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1960 Anne Parillaud, French actress

1961 George Clooney, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1961 Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman and philanthropist

1961 Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and diplomat, Vice-President of the European Commission

1962 Tom Brake, English politician

1963 Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina

1965 Leslie Hope, Canadian actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

1968 Lætitia Sadier, French singer and keyboard player

1969 Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer and coach

1971 Chris Shiflett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1972 Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player

1976 Iván de la Peña, Spanish footballer

1977 Mark Eaton (ice hockey), American ice hockey player and coach

1977 Chantelle Newbery, Australian diver

1978 John Abraham (American football), American football player

1978 Tony Estanguet, French slalom canoeist

1978 Fredrick Federley, Swedish journalist and politician

1979 Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower

1979 Jon Montgomery, Canadian skeleton racer and television host

1980 Brooke Bennett, American swimmer

1980 Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek professional basketball player

1980 Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

1982 Jason Witten, American football player

1983 Dani Alves, Brazilian footballer

1983 Gabourey Sidibe, American actress

1983 Trinley Thaye Dorje, Tibetan religious leader, the 17th Karmapa

1985 Chris Paul, American basketball player

1986 Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player

1987 Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer

1987 Meek Mill, American rapper

1987 Gerardo Parra, Venezuelan baseball player and coach

1987 Adrienne Warren, American actress

1988 Ryan Anderson (basketball, born 1988), American basketball player

1988 Dakota Kai, New Zealand professional wrestler

1989 Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player

1989 Cameron Heyward, American football player

1990 José Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player

1990 Péter Gulácsi, Hungarian footballer

1992 Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player

1992 Baekhyun, South Korean musician and actor

1992 Jonas Valančiūnas, Lithuanian basketball player

1993 Gustavo Gómez, Paraguayan footballer

1993 Naomi Scott, English actress

1994 Mateo Kovačić, Croatian international footballer

1997 Duncan Scott (swimmer), Scottish swimmer

2002 Cole Palmer, English footballer

2002 Angel Reese, American basketball player

2019 Prince Archie of Sussex

698 Eadberht of Lindisfarne, bishop of Lindisfarne

850 Emperor Ninmyō, Japanese emperor (b. 808)

932 Qian Liu, Chinese warlord and king (b. 852)

988 Dirk II, Count of Holland, count of Frisia and County of Holland

1002 Ealdwulf (archbishop of York), Archbishop of York, Abbot of Peterborough and Bishop of Worcester

1187 Ruben III, Prince of Armenia (b. 1145)

1236 Roger of Wendover, Benedictine monk and chronicler

1471 Edmund Beaufort (died 1471), English commander (b. 1438)

1471 Thomas Tresham (speaker), Speaker of the House of Commons

1475 Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. 1415)

1483 Queen Jeonghui, Korean regent (b. 1418)

1502 James Tyrrell, English knight (b. 1450)

1527 Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne (b. 1490)

1540 Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar (b. 1492)

1596 Giaches de Wert, Flemish-Italian composer (b. 1535)

1631 Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English historian and politician, founded the Cotton library (b. 1570)

1638 Cornelius Jansen, Dutch-French bishop and theologian (b. 1585)

1708 François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop (b. 1623)

1757 Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1683)

1757 Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)

1782 Christine Kirch, German astronomer and academic (b. 1696)

1840 Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)

1859 Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)

1862 Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)

1867 Socrates Nelson, American businessman and politician (b. 1814)

1877 Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)

1882 Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant), Irish civil servant (b. 1829)

1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)

1888 Abraham Joseph Ash, American rabbi (b. c. 1813)

1905 Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)

1907 Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)

1910 Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)

1919 L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)

1939 Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)

1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1862)

1951 Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)

1952 Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)

1959 Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)

1959 Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)

1961 Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)

1963 Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)

1963 Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)

1963 Monty Woolley, American raconteur, actor, and director (b. 1888)

1967 Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (b. 1885)

1970 Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1879)

1973 Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1893)

1975 József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)

1980 María Luisa Bombal, Chilean writer (b. 1910)

1983 Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)

1983 Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (b. 1922)

1984 Mary Cain (editor), American journalist and politician (b. 1904)

1984 Bonner Pink, English politician (b. 1912)

1987 William J. Casey, American politician, 13th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913)

1989 Earl Blaik, American football player and coach (b. 1897)

1990 Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1900)

1991 Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (b. 1903)

1992 Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress and singer (b. 1901)

1993 Ann Todd, English actress and producer (b. 1909)

1995 Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1956)

2000 Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and academic (b. 1920)

2002 Murray Adaskin, Canadian violinist, composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1906)

2002 Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1932)

2002 Pim Fortuyn, Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician (b. 1948)

2002 Bjørn Johansen (musician), Norwegian saxophonist (b. 1940)

2003 Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1927)

2004 Virginia Capers, American actress and singer (b. 1925)

2004 Philip Kapleau, American monk and educator (b. 1912)

2004 Barney Kessel, American guitarist and composer (b. 1923)

2006 Grant McLennan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)

2006 Lorne Saxberg, Canadian journalist (b. 1958)

2007 Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian physician and politician (b. 1938)

2007 Curtis Harrington, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2009 Kevin Grubb, American race car driver (b. 1978)

2010 Robin Roberts (baseball), American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1926)

2012 James R. Browning, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (b. 1918)

2012 James Isaac, American director and producer (b. 1960)

2012 Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and author (b. 1924)

2013 Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)

2013 Severo Aparicio Quispe, Peruvian bishop (b. 1923)

2013 Michelangelo Spensieri, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

2014 Wil Albeda, Dutch economist and politician, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (Netherlands) (b. 1925)

2014 William H. Dana, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)

2014 Jimmy Ellis (boxer), American boxer (b. 1940)

2014 Billy Harrell, American baseball player and scout (b. 1928)

2014 Antony Hopkins, English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1921)

2014 Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter and academic (b. 1919)

2014 Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (b. 1921)

2015 Novera Ahmed, Bangladeshi sculptor (b. 1930)

2015 Denise McCluggage, American race car driver and journalist (b. 1927)

2015 Jim Wright, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1922)

2016 Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1990)

2016 Reg Grundy, Australian businessman (b. 1923)

2021 Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (b. 1966)

2022 George Pérez, American comic book artist and writer (b. 1954)

2024 Bernard Pivot, French journalist, interviewer and host (b. 1935)

2024 Brian Wenzel, Australian actor (b. 1929)

Christian feast day:

- Dominic Savio

- Evodius (Roman Catholic Church)

- François de Laval

- Gerard of Lunel

- Lucius of Cyrene

- Petronax of Monte Cassino

- St George's Day related observances (Eastern Orthodox Church):

- Army Day # Bulgaria, also known as ''Gergyovden'' (Bulgaria)

- Đurđevdan (Gorani people, Romani people)

- Public holidays in Georgia (Georgia (country))

- George's Day in Spring (Russian Orthodox Church)

- John the Apostle # Liturgical commemoration

- May 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which Military Spouse Day can fall, while May 12 is the latest; celebrated on Friday before Mother's Day (United States)

International No Diet Day

Public holidays in Gabon (Gabon)

Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria)

Azulejo (Portugal)

Teachers' Day (Jamaica)

The first day of Hıdırellez (Turkey)

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