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On This Day 6th May - Hedgehog - 05-06-2009 1937: The Hindenburg airship, the largest ever built, explodes at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people. 1954: British athlete Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, in Oxford. 1992: The Channel Tunnel - an immense engineering achievement - opens, linking London and Paris by rail.