Today is Sunday, May sixth, the 126th day of 2001. There are 239 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May sixth, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible "Hindenburg" burned and crashed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground. On this date: In 1861, Arkansas seceded from the Union. In 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower. In 1891, electrician Irwin H. Hoover began installing the first electrical wiring in the White House. In 1910, Britain's King Edward the Seventh died. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration began operating. In 1941, dictator Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, replacing Vyacheslav M. Molotov. In 1942, during World War Two, some 15-thousand Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese. In 1954, medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in three minutes, 59-point-four seconds. In 1960, Britain's Princess Margaret married Anthony Armstrong-Jones, a commoner, at Westminster Abbey. (They divorced in 1978.) In 1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin was named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Ten years ago: President Bush returned to work after spending two nights at Bethesda Naval Hospital because of an irregular heartbeat; he met at the White House with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Five years ago: The body of former CIA director William E. Colby was found washed up on a riverbank near his southern Maryland vacation home, eight days after he'd disappeared. One year ago: Jack Mazzan, who'd spent 20 years on death row for the murder of a judge's son, was released on bail, three months after the Nevada Supreme Court reversed his conviction. "Fusaichi Pegasus" became the first favorite to win the Kentucky Derby since "Spectacular Bid" in 1979. Today's Birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays is 70. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (Republican, Alabama) is 67. Rock singer Bob Seger is 56. Singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore is 56. Actor Ben Masters is 54. Actor Gregg Henry is 49. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is 48. Game show host Tom Bergeron is 46. Actor George Clooney is 40. Actor Clay O'Brien is 40. Actress Roma Downey is 38. Rock singer-musician Tony Scalzo (Fastball) is 37. Rock musician Mark Bryan (Hootie and the Blowfish) is 34. "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." -- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (1869-1959). (Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)