06 March History


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  • 1521    -    Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
  • 1820    -    The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress and signed by President James Monroe, providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibits slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
  • 1836    -    After fighting for 13 days, the Alamo falls.
  • 1853    -    Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata premieres in Venice.
  • 1857    -    The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision holds that blacks cannot be citizens.
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  • 1860    -    While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike.
  • 1862    -    The USS Monitor left New York with a crew of 63, seven officers and 56 seamen.
  • 1884    -    Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, present President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
  • 1888    -    Louisa May Alcott dies just hours after the burial of her father.
  • 1899    -    Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman's discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid.
  • 1901    -    A would-be assassin tries to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.
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  • 1914    -    German Prince Wilhelm de Wied is crowned as King of Albania.
  • 1916    -    The Allies recapture Fort Douamont in France during the Battle of Verdun.
  • 1928    -    A Communist attack on Beijing results in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fleeing to Swatow.
  • 1939    -    In Spain, Jose Miaja takes over Madrid government after a military coup and vows to seek "peace with honor."
  • 1943    -    British RAF fliers bomb Essen and the Krupp arms works in the Ruhr, Germany.
  • 1945    -    Cologne, Germany, falls to General Courtney Hodges' First Army.
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  • 1947    -    Winston Churchill opposes the withdrawal of troops from India.
  • 1948    -    During talks in Berlin, the Western powers agree to internationalize the Ruhr region.
  • 1953    -    Upon Josef Stalin's death, Georgi Malenkov is named Soviet premier.
  • 1960    -    The Swiss grant women the right to vote in municipal elections.
  • 1965    -    The United States announces that it will send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
  • 1967    -    President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his plan to establish a draft lottery.
  • 1973    -    President Richard Nixon imposes price controls on oil and gas.
  • 1975    -    Iran and Iraq announce that they have settled the border dispute.
  • 1980    -    Islamic militants in Tehran say that they will turn over the American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.
  • 1981    -    President Reagan announces plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
  • 1987    -    The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. At least 26 are dead.

  • 06 March Birthdays

  • 1475    -    Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, sculptor and architect.
  • 1806    -    Elizabeth Barret Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese).
  • 1831    -    Philip Henry Sheridan, Union Army general.
  • 1885    -    Ring Lardner, writer (You Know Me, Al).
  • 1899    -    Richard Leo Simon, publisher, partner of Max Schuster.
  • 1908    -    Lou Costello, American comedian, partner of Bud Abbott.
  • 1928    -    Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Columbian-born novelist (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera).
  • 1937    -    Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian astronaut, the first woman to orbit the Earth.
  • 1944    -    Dame Kiri Te Kannawa, operatic soprano.