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March 6




March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap
years). There are 298 days remaining.

Events

   * 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope
   * 1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas - Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands
     in exchange for claims in West Africa
   * 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam
   * 1820 - For the second time the Missouri Compromise is signed by
     President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the
     Union as a slave state, but made the rest of the northern part of the
     Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
   * 1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
   * 1836 - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189
     Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken.
   * 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott
     v. Sandford case.
   * 1899 - Bayer registeres aspirin as a trademark.
   * 1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
   * 1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
   * 1946 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which
     recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation
     and the French Union.
   * 1947 - The Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is
     launched from Newport News, Virginia.
   * 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
   * 1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as
     Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
   * 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and Togoland become the
     independent Republic of Ghana.
   * 1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece
   * 1964 - Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by
     completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
   * 1970 - Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an
     album titled Lies to help finance his defense.
   * 1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their
     border dispute.
   * 1981 - After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News Walter Cronkite
     signs off for the last time.
   * 1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of
     competition
   * 1984 - Twelve month long strike in British coal industry begins
   * 1987 - Off the coast of Belgium in the English Channel, the British
     ferry The Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes killing 189.
   * 1992 - The 'Michelangelo' computer virus begins to affect computers.
   * 1997 - Picasso's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery (it was
     recovered a week later).

Births

   * 1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter († 1564)
   * 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet
   * 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet († 1861)
   * 1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian († 1910)
   * 1885 - Ring Lardner, writer (†1933)
   * 1898 - Therese Giehse, actress († 1975)
   * 1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor (†1942)
   * 1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer († 1975)
   * 1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian († 1959)
   * 1923 - Ed McMahon, television personality
   * 1923 - JŸrgen von Manger, cabaretist († 1994)
   * 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
   * 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
   * 1927 or 1928 - Gabriel Garc’a M‡rquez, writer, winner of the Nobel
     Prize in Literature 1982
   * 1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician
   * 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut
   * 1929 - GŸnter Kunert, writer and lyricist
   * 1930 - Lorin Maazel, opera conductor
   * 1936 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC
   * 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
   * 1941 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer
   * 1946 - David Gilmour, musican ("Pink Floyd")
   * 1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
   * 1947 - Dick Fosbury, athlete
   * 1947 - Kiki Dee, singer
   * 1959 - Tom Arnold, actor, comedian
   * 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player

Deaths

   * 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist
   * 1929 - David Buick, automobile pioneer
   * 1932 - John Philip Sousa, band leader, conductor, composer
   * 1933 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, wounded weeks earlier
     by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies of his
     injuries
   * 1941 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor
   * 1951 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer
   * 1965 - Margaret Dumont, actress
   * 1967 - Zolt‡n Kod‡ly, composer
   * 1967 - Nelson Eddy, singer, actor
   * 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, writer
   * 1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, boxer, actor
   * 1982 - Ayn Rand, author
   * 1986 - Georgia O'Keefe, artist

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