0506 Today in History
May 6th, 1937 in Lakehurst, NJ, the German dirigible Hindenburg burst into flames and crashes upon arriving for landing. Reporter Herb Morrison is there. It’s a terrific place, ladies and gentlemen, to smoke and it’s claims now. And the framers rising to the ground. Not quite to the mooring mass of the humanities. All the president, the disaster kills 35 people aboard the hydrogen filled 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, who’s pioneering films include Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil, is Born in Kenosha, WI 1942. During World War Two, Americans and Filipinos 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 minutes, 59.4 seconds at a track meet at Oxford Today in history, May 6th. Sandy Cosell, The Associated Press.