May 6: St George's Day in Bulgaria
- 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart (pictured) was admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- 1882 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law, implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained until the Magnuson Act was enacted in 1943.
- 1937 – The German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
- 1991 – Time magazine published "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power", an article highly critical of the Scientology organization, leading to years of legal conflict that ended when the Church of Scientology's petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case was denied in 2001.
- 2013 – Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, US, home of her captor Ariel Castro after having been held there with two other women for ten years.
More anniversaries: May 5 – May 6 – May 7
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