This Day in History

May 6th in History

Oh, the humanity! The Hindenburg explodes, the Chunnel opens, and Paula Jones sues Bill Clinton. It's the birthday of Robespierre, Valentino, Sigmund Freud and Orson Wells; Thoreau, L. Frank Baum, and Marlene Dietrich died. Happy Durdevdan!

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Quote of the Day

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

Orson Welles, actor and director, as Harry Lime in "The Third Man" born May 6, 1915