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May 6

3 sourced moments from May 6 in history: The airship Hindenburg bursts into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey (1937); Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile when many thought it impossible (1954); and The Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France opens (1994).

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3 things happened on May 6

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1994 Technology · Engineering

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France opens

Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand inaugurated a rail tunnel beneath the sea, joining Britain to the Continent for the first time since the Ice Age.

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1954 Sports · Athletics

Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile when many thought it impossible

A 25-year-old medical student ran the mile in under four minutes in 1954 - and then watched his 'impossible' barrier fall again within weeks.

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1937 Technology · Transportation

The airship Hindenburg bursts into flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey

A German hydrogen Zeppelin caught fire over its New Jersey mooring mast, and the age of passenger airships died with it.

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