The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the
pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames upon touching its
mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers
and crew-members, on May 6, 1937. 

Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah; July 1, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio))
is a television and film comedian and theatre actor. He is best known
for playing the cross-dressing corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H. He was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.

    
    
    
    
   

Amanda Blake (Beverly Louise Neill)  
(February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989)

Actress Amanda Blake is best known for the role of the
red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on
the western CBS-TV series Gunsmoke (1955 – 1975)

Along with her fourth husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran
one of the first programs for breeding cheetahs in
captivity.         

In 1968, Blake was inducted into the Hall of Great
Western Performers at the National Cowboy and
Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. She
was the third performer inducted, after Tom Mix
and Gary Cooper, selected in 1958 and 1966,
respectively.

Blake died of liver failure brought on by viral hepatitis
at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, California

       
          

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Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "Fifth of May") a yearly celebration
held on May 5, which commemorates the anniversary of Mexico’s
victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862 led
by General Ignacio Zaragoza (below).

(March 24, 1829 – September 8, 1862)