March 6 March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining. It is 啓蟄 (Keichitsu) in the Japanese calendar. Events upto 19th century 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 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law 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 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - 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. 1853 - The Giuseppe Verdi opera La Traviata premieres in Venice. 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. 1899 - Bayer registeres aspirin as a trademark. 20th century 1900s-1970s 1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners. 1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany. 1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union. 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. 1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula 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. 1980s-1990s 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 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 upto 19th century 1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, (d. 1564) 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet, (d. 1655) 1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, General (d. 1869) 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, (d. 1861) 1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison father of the American System of Watch Manufacturing in Freeport, Main, U.S.A. 1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian, (d. 1910) 1885 - Ring Lardner, writer, (d. 1933) 1898 - Therese Giehse, actress, (d. 1975) 20th century 1900s-1930s 1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor, (d. 1942) 1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer, (d. 1975) 1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian (d. 1959) 1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981) 1923 - Ed McMahon, television personality 1923 - Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist, (d. 1994) 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director 1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004) 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 1929 - Günter Kunert, writer and lyricist 1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor 1934 - John Noakes, British TV presenter (Blue Peter) 1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete 1936 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut 1940s-1970s 1941 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer 1944 - Mary Wilson (singer), singer, member of the Supremes 1946 - David Gilmour, musican ("Pink Floyd") 1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer 1947 - Dick Fosbury, athlete 1947 - Kiki Dee, singer 1949 - Shaukat Aziz, politician 1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author 1957 - Joseph M. Meli, genealogist, management consultant 1959 - Tom Arnold, actor, comedian 1963 - D.L. Hughley, actor, comedian 1969 - Tari Phillips, basketball player 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player Deaths 1836 - Davy Crockett, frontiersman (b. 1786) 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist, (b. 1832) 1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, princess of Hawaii (b. 1875) 1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American and Confederate politician (b. 1818) 1929 - David Buick, automobile pioneer 1932 - John Philip Sousa, band leader, conductor, composer, (b. 1854) 1933 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, wounded weeks earlier by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies of his injuries, (b. 1873) 1941 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, (b. 1867) 1951 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer, (b. 1893) 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader 1965 - Margaret Dumont, actress, (b. 1889) 1967 - Nelson Eddy, singer, actor 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, (b. 1882) 1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921) 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, writer, (b. 1892) 1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, boxer, actor 1982 - Ayn Rand, author, (b. 1905) 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, artist, (b. 1887) 1993 - Douglas Marland, soap opera writer (b. 1935) 2003 - John Sanford, author Holidays and observances In 2004, the Jewish holiday of Purim begins. 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