| 52051 | May.06 | Event | 1935 – The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. |
| 52052 | May.06 | Event | 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed. |
| 52053 | May.06 | Event | 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. |
| 52054 | May.06 | Event | 1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show. |
| 52055 | May.06 | Event | 1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. |
| 52056 | May.06 | Event | 1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. |
| 52057 | May.06 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops. |
| 52058 | May.06 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins. |
| 52059 | May.06 | Event | 1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation. |
| 52060 | May.06 | Event | 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. |
| 52061 | May.06 | Event | 1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. |
| 52062 | May.06 | Event | 1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII. |
| 52063 | May.06 | Event | 1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England. |
| 52064 | May.06 | Event | 1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order. |
| 52065 | May.06 | Event | 1975 – During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut to commemorate 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. |
| 52066 | May.06 | Event | 1976 – An earthquake strikes the Friuli region of northeastern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages. |
| 52067 | May.06 | Event | 1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries. |
| 52068 | May.06 | Event | 1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts. |
| 52069 | May.06 | Event | 1984 – One hundred three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul. |
| 52070 | May.06 | Event | 1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is known as the "coaster wars". |
| 52071 | May.06 | Event | 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel. |
| 52072 | May.06 | Event | 1994 – Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files a lawsuit against United States President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991. |
| 52073 | May.06 | Event | 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared. |
| 52074 | May.06 | Event | 1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history. |
| 52075 | May.06 | Event | 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. |
| 52076 | May.06 | Event | 1999 – The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held. |
| 52077 | May.06 | Event | 2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque. |
| 52078 | May.06 | Event | 2002 – After a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated. |
| 52079 | May.06 | Event | 2004 – The series finale of the television sitcom Friends is aired on NBC. The finale attracts 52.46 million viewers, making it the sixth most watched television series finale in U.S. history. |
| 52080 | May.06 | Event | 2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Their captor, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody. |