Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for May 6th: https://ko-fi.com/post/May-6-F1F11EMSJU
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| May 6th was Sigmund Freud's birthday. |
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Freud Day
Artist Birthday: Rudolph Valentino
Bummer May 6th
May 6, 1937: The airship Hindenburg catches fire and crashes while attempting to dock at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey. One person on the ground, 13 passengers, and 22 crew members are killed. Many of the survivors suffer severe burns.
The event was captured by several news reel cameras and covered for the radio station WLS (Chicago) by reporter Herbert Morrison. Morrison’s commentary has become as widely remembered as the disaster itself. An urban legend states that Morrison was fired for having a too-human (read: unprofessional) reaction to the tragedy, but this is untrue, although he did leave WLS to take a job at another station about a year after the accident.
May 6, 1965: James Krebs, the former center for the Los Angeles Lakers who retired from the NBA in 1964, dies at the age of 29. While helping a neighbor remove a tree that a storm had knocked over onto the neighbor’s roof, Krebs is fatally struck in the head by one of the tree’s limbs.
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