Today in History: Monday, May 6, 2013

历史上的今天：2013年5月6日，星期一

May 6th, 1937 In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the German dirigible Hindenberg burns into flames and crashes upon arriving for landing. Reporter Herbert Morrison is there. “It’s a terrific day, ladies and gentlemen. The smoke and the flame now, and the flame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mass. Oh, the humanity and all the passengers...” The disaster kills 35 people aboard the hydrogen-fueled airship and a navy crewman on the ground.

1856. Psychologist Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis is born in what’s now the Czech Republic.

1915. “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know what you’ll think about Mr. Kane, I can’t imagine. You see, I play the part myself.”

Actor and director Orson Welles, whose pioneering films include Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil, is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

1942. During World War II, Americans and Filipino surrender to Japanese forces on the Philippine island of Corregidor in the Pacific.

And 1954. In Britain, Roger Bannister becomes the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than 4 minutes. Bannister finishes the mile in 3’59.4’’ at a track meet at Oxford.

Today in History, May 6th. Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.