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In 1998, Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.
May 6 in History
1998 — Steve Jobs of Apple Inc
unveils the first iMac.
May 6 spans 61 recorded events across recorded history, from 1104 to 2023. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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Historical Events
61 events
1104 – 2023
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The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
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Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.
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A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.
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with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. This shows how the event shaped policy and public communication in the same period.
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After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.
1104
King Baldwin I of Jerusalem begins the siege of Acre, then held by the Fatimids.
King of Jerusalem from 1100 to 1118
1527
Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
Habsburg siege and subsequent sack of Papal Rome
1536
The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanish.
1536–37 attempt by the Incan Empire to retake Cuzco from Spanish conquistadores
1541
King Henry VIII orders English-language Bibles be placed in every church.
In 1539 the Great Bible would be provided for this purpose.
1542
Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
Navarese Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)
1594
The Dutch city of Coevorden, held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force.
City and municipality in Drenthe, Netherlands
1659
English Restoration: A faction of the British Army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and reinstalls the Rump Parliament.
1660 restoration of the monarchy in the British Isles
1682
Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
King of France from 1643 to 1715
1757
Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
Part of the Third Silesian War
1757
The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
Conflict between states of Burma (Myanmar) from 1752–57
1757
English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
English poet (1722–1771)
1782
Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
Royal residence in Bangkok, Thailand
1801
Captain Thomas Cochrane in the 14-gun HMS Speedy captures the 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo.
British naval officer, politician and mercenary (1775–1860)
1840
The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid for use in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
World's first adhesive postage stamp
1857
The East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British in the lead up to the War of Indian Independence.
British joint-stock company (1600–1858)
1861
American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a major defeat of the Union's Army of the Potomac under Joseph Hooker by the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E.
Lee.
1877
Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
Lakota war leader (c. 1840–1877)
1882
Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Irish civil servant (1829–1882)
1882
The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Bicameral legislature of the United States
1889
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
Tower in Paris, France
1901
The first issue of Gorkhapatra, the oldest still running state-owned Nepali newspaper, is published.
State-run daily newspaper of Nepal
1906
The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
Reorganization of the Imperial Russian government following the 1905 revolution
1910
George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
1915
Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
American baseball player (1895–1948)
1915
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: The SY Aurora breaks loose from its anchorage during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal.
1914–17 British Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton
1916
Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
Historical central public square of Beirut, Lebanon
1916
Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
Country in Southeast Asia
1933
The Deutsche Studentenschaft attack Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
Organization of student unions in Weimar- and Nazi-era Germany
1935
New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
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.
1940
John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
American writer and novelist (1902–1968)
1942
World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
1945
World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
American Nazi propagandist (1900–1988)
1945
World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1945 Red Army invasion of German-occupied Czechoslovakia
1949
EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
1940s–1950s British computer
1954
Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
English athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile (1929–2018)
1960
More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
1960 British royal wedding
1966
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
1963–65 serial child killings in England
1972
Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara after being convicted of attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
Turkish revolutionary (1947–1972)
1975
During a lull in fighting, 100,000 Armenians gather in Beirut for the 60th anniversary commemorations of the Armenian genocide.
1976
The 6.5 Mw Friuli earthquake affects Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 900–978 dead and 1,700–2,400 injured.
Extreme earthquake in Italy
1983
The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.
Forged journals purportedly by Adolf Hitler
1984
One hundred and three Korean Martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II in Seoul.
Christian victims of persecution in 19th-century Korea; some canonized in 1984
1988
All thirty-six passengers and crew are killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashes into Mt.
Torghatten in Brønnøy.
1994
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
1996
The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
U.S. intelligence and covert action agency
1997
The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
Central bank of the United Kingdom
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.
1999
The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
Granting of some competences of central government to local government
2001
During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
Country in West Asia
2002
Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
Dutch politician (1948–2002)
2004
The final episode of the television sitcom Friends is aired.
17th and 18th episodes of the 10th season of Friends
2010
In just 36 minutes, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges nearly 1,000 points in what is known as the 2010 Flash Crash.
American stock market index composed of 30 industry leaders
2013
Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.
2002–2004 kidnappings in Cleveland, Ohio, US
2023
The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.
2023 coronation in the United Kingdom
2023
Eight people are killed and seven injured in a mass shooting in Allen, Texas.
The perpetrator is killed by a police officer.