^B{^#!16!6 May^N! Feast day of St Edbert, Saints Marian and James, St Evodius of Antioch, St Petronax, and St John Before the Latin Gate.
^B{1527^B} The Sack of Rome, when imperialist troops under Charles, Duke of Bourbon (who was killed), mutinied, pillaging the city and killing some 4,000 of the inhabitants. Valuable art treasures were looted. ^B{Law was not restored until Feb 1528. ^B{1576^B} The Fifth War of Religion in France ended; the Huguenots were granted freedom of worship in all places except Paris. ^B{1626^B} Dutch settler Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan from native Americans for goods worth about $25. ^B{1840^B} The Penny Black, the first postage stamp, was issued in Britain. 1882^B} Fenians murdered Irish chief secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and T H Burke, Irish under-secretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin. ^B{1910^B} George V became king of the United Kingdom on the death of Edward VII. ^B{1937^B} The German zeppelin ^I{Hindenburg^I} caught fire in New Jersey, US, killing 36 passengers.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Pope Marcellus II, ^B{1501^B}; Pope Innocent X, ^B{1574^B}; Thomas William Coke, Earl of Leicester, ^B{1754^B}; AndrΘ Massena, French soldier, ^B{1756^B}; Maximilien Franτois Robespierre, French revolutionary leader, ^B{1758^B}; Franτois Guillaume Andrieux 1759^B}; Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst, ^B{1856^B}; Robert Edwin Peary, US Arctic explorer, ^B{1856^B}; Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and philosopher, ^B{1861^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Juan Luis Vives, Spanish philosopher, ^B{1540^B}; Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian, ^B{1540^B}; Robert Cotton, English antiquary, ^B{1631^B}; Cornelius Jansen, Dutch theologian, ^B{1638^B}; Alexander von Humboldt, German explorer, ^B{1859^B}; Henry David Thoreau, US poet, ^B{1862^B}; Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright, ^B{1949^B}; Marlene Dietrich, German-born singer and actress, ^B{1992^B}.
