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Information about 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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