Today is Friday, May 6, the 127th day of 2016. There are 239 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Willie Mays is 85. Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama, is 82. Rock singer Bob Seger is 71. Former British prime minister Tony Blair is 63. TV personality Tom Bergeron is 61. Actor George Clooney is 55. Actress Gabourey Sidibe is 33.

In 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 people on board and a Navy crewman on the ground.

In 1941, Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.

In 1942, during World War II, some 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to Japanese forces.

In 1954, medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.

In 1981, Yale architecture student Maya Ying Lin was named winner of a competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

In 2001, Pope John Paul II, during a visit to Syria, became the first pope to enter a mosque as he called for brotherhood between Christians and Muslims.

In 2006, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the Titanic, died in Shrewsbury, Mass., at age 99.

Last year, the NFL released a 243-page report on ‘‘Deflategate’’ that stopped short of calling Patriots quarterback Tom Brady a cheater but did call some of his claims ‘‘implausible’’ and left little doubt he’d had a role in having footballs deflated before New England’s AFC title game against Indianapolis.