On this Day…
May 6
• In 1856, the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, was born in Freiberg, Moravia, a country near Poland and the Czech Republic. For an analyst he was pretty neurotic himself. He suffered from an Oedipus complex, depressions, and fears of open spaces and railway trains, and lived in terror of dying at the age of 51. He spent half an hour every day analyzing himself, and claimed he could only really work when he felt ill. Throughout it all he had one dogged assistant – his chow dog Jo-fi. She’d walk into his room with every patient, lie down beside the couch, and at precisely the end of the hour, get up and escort them out! • In 1942, “White Christmas” was published as the summer began. Composed by Irving Berlin against a tight deadline for the film “Holiday Inn” it was destined to become the greatest-selling record of all time, with an estimated 140 million copies sold to date. While everyone on the set thought it was a nice sentimental little song, Bing Crosby was more confident. He turned to Berlin and said prophetically, “I don’t think you need to worry about this one, Irving.”
— from Today’s the Day! By Jeremy Beadle In Christian history
• In 1986, the Reverend Donald E. Pelotte was ordained as the first Native American Roman Catholic bishop in Gallup, New Mexico.
— from This Day in Christian History By William D. Blake In the Philippines
• In 1942, Corregidor, the strongest fortress of the United States in the Orient, was surrendered unconditionally to the Japanese army. Following the earlier surrender of Filipino-American forces in Bataan, General Jonathan Wainwright decided to surrender his remaining forces of about 12,000 men on the island. The surrender marked the total collapse of defense against the Japanese invasion.
— www.kahimyang.info In Cebu
• In 1952, “The Cebu Workshop,” a civic organization of women in the local foreign community, was founded.
— from Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos