5_6 Events in History.

435 Historic Events for May 6

1814 Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer Birth
1814 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer Birth
1814 George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 Death
1825 Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867 Birth
1829 Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England Birth
1830 Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet Birth
1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow Event
1835 1st edition of NY Herald (price 1›) Event
1836 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 Death
1838 Alfred Humphreys Pease, composer Birth

1840 1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain) Event
1841 John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 Death
1843 Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah Birth
1844 Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote Event
1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony Event
1849 Wyatt Eaton, artist Birth
1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock Event
1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine" Event
1851 New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname Event
1851 SF Chamber of Commerce starts Event
1852 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 Death
1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut) Event
1856 Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909) Birth
1856 Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology Birth
1856 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies Death