May 6 in Pop Culture History May 6 is… National Beverage Day Joseph Brackett Day National Crêpe Suzette Day National Nurses Day National Tourist Appreciation Day No Homework Day (also the last Friday in March) 1840 (Tornado) Natchez, Mississippi 1851 – Linus Yale, Jr. was granted a patent (#8,071) for the invention of his “Self-Detaching …