1945
May 6, Axis Sally made her final propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.

1950
May 6, Liz Taylor wed Conrad Hilton Jr. in her first marriage.

1950
May 6, Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer, died. She was best known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution.

1952
May 6, Maria Montessori (b.1870), Italian physician, educationist, died In Holland. She opened her 1st school in San Lorenzo, Italy, in 1907.

1992
May 6, Actress Marlene Dietrich (b.1901), film star and singer, died at her Paris home at age 90. She was buried in Germany on May 16.

1994
May 6, Paula Jones filed a complaint of sexual harassment in US District Court in Little Rock, Ark. against Pres. Bill Clinton. According to Jones, on May 8, 1991 at the Third Annual Governor’s Quality Management Conference in Little Rock, Ark., Gov. Bill Clinton invited Ms. Jones, a state employee working at the registration desk, to a private meeting and exposed his desire for her. Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.

1994
May 6, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally opened the Channel Tunnel between their countries.

2004
May 6, Lea Fastow, wife of former Enron finance Chief Andrew Fastow, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to one year in prison.

2013
May 6, In Cleveland 3 women, Amanda Berry (27), Gina DeJesus (23) and Michelle Knight (32), who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, were found alive in a residential area just south of downtown. 3 brothers, Ariel Castro (52), Pedro (54) and Onil Castro (50) were arrested. On May 8 Ariel Castro was charged with kidnapping and rape of the 3 women. His two brothers were not charged. On July 26 Ariel Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts in a deal to avoid the death penalty.

2013
May 6, US Air Force Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinsky (41), head of Air Force sexual assault prevention, was arrested on charges of groping a woman a day earlier in a suburban Virginia parking lot.

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