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Today in History ~ March 6
Remember the Alamo
Events1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
1646 - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1665 - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa, Palestine
1808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany
1831 - Edgar Allen Poe booted out of West Point milt academy for showing up for inspection in "full Military Attire" -- which consisted of boots, dress gauntlets, and nothing else
1834 - The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
1836 - 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 days of siege, the Mexicans stormed the citadel. Reportedly it took three assaults and close combat to overcome the garrison. [H]
1836 - HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera, "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1857 - Dred Scott Decision: U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling that black slave Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court. [H]
1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1865 - President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball
1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1896 - 1st auto in Detroit -- Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 - "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann [H]
1909 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna
1918 - US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in "Bermuda Triangle"
1921 - Police in Sunbury, Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1922 - GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in NYC
1930 - Bkln's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
1943 - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommel's assault attack
1944 - American bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin.
1945 - 117 SD prisoners executed at Savage Farm
1945 - Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee Nazis
1945 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires
1946 - France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1950 - Silly Putty invented
1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
1953 - Gyorgy Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR
1957 - The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced
1962 - US promise Thailand assistance against "communist" aggression
1965 - "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances
1967 - Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1967 - Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
1967 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
1972 - Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1974 - "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga
1981 - Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
1982 - An Egyptian court sentenced five Moslem fundamentalists to death for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. 17 others were sentenced to prison.
1983 - "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
1983 - Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
1983 - In a case that drew much notoriety, a woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern called Big Dan's; four men were later convicted of the attack.
1985 - Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
1985 - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
1986 - Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London
1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1987 - An earthquake and flood in northeastern Ecuador killed more than 300 people and ruptured a main oil pipeline.
1987 - 189 people died when the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
1988 - 3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1990 - An attempted coup against Afghan President Najibullah failed.
1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, Pres Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
1992 - The long-awaited, much-feared Michelangelo virus struck around the world, but appeared not to be the data disaster some had predicted.
1997 - A gunman stole a million-dollar Picasso portrait ("Tete de Femme") from a London gallery. (The painting was recovered and two suspects arrested a week later.)
1997 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
1997 - China introduced new laws to bolster its campaigns against dissent, ethnic separatism and subversive Western ideals.
1998 - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1998 - Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery
2000 - A federal jury convicted three New York City police officers of covering up the brutal assault on Abner Louima in a police station men's room in 1997.
2001 - Calling it the "most accurate census in history," the Bush administration refused to adjust the 2000 head count.
2001 - Forty-two people, mostly students, were killed in a schoolhouse explosion in southern China; the government blamed a bomber, but parents said the students had been forced to make fireworks by school officials.
2001 - Bill Mazeroski was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Negro League player Hilton Smith.
Birthdays Today
1475 - Michelangelo (de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (Renaissance artist: Sistine Chapel ceiling; sculptor: David; architect: St. Peter's [Rome])
1619 - Cyrano De Bergerac (French soldier, famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon), swordsman, author: The States and Empires of the Sun; subject of famous play whose title bears his name)
1763 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
1791 - Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton) (Robert Browning's wife) (poet: Sonnets from the Portuguese - "How do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.")
1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
1831 - Philip Henry Sheridan, Albany NY, Major General (Union Army)
1835 - Charles Ewing, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, orchestrator/composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Sadko, Mlada, Capriccio Espagnol, The Tsar's Bride, Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
1870 - Oscar Strauss, Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum)
1885 - Ring Lardner (sports reporter, humorist, writer: Alibi Ike, You Know Me Al, Elmer the Great, June Moon)
1905 - Bob Wills (fiddler, composer, bandleader: Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: San Antonio Rose)
1906 - Lou Costello (Cristillo), Paterson NJ, (comedian, actor [Abbott & Costello]: "Who's on First?")
1913 - Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers, Scaramouche)
1914 - Kirill P Kondrashin, Moscow Russia, conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981)
1916 - Rochelle Hudson, Okla City OK, actress (That's My Boy)
1921 - Julius Rudel, Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera)
1923 - Ed McMahon (radio/tv announcer, pitchman: The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Star Search, The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, Budweiser spots, TV's Most Hilarious Bloopers)
1924 - Sarah Caldwell, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
1924 - William H Webster, US, judge/head FBI/CIA
1926 - Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor (FRB
1927 - Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Okla, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)
1927 - Norman Treigle, New Orleans Louisiana, bass-baritone (Mefistofele)
1927 - Wes (John Leslie) Montgomery (jazz guitarist: Windy, Goin' Out of My Head, Wes' Tune, Sunny)
1936 - Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC)
1937 - Cookie Rojas (baseball:Philadelphia Phillies)
1937 - Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
1940 - R.H. (Dick) Sikes (golfer)
1941 - Willie 'Pops' Stargell (baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates 1B: Baseball Writer's Award [1979]; World Series MVP and Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year [1979])
1942 - Ben Murphy (actor: The Winds of War, The Chisholms, Time Walker)
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
1945 - Bob Trumpy (football; broadcaster)
1945 - Rob Reiner Bronx NY, actor/director(Emmy Award-winning Best Supporting Actor/Comedy Series: All In the Family [1973-74, 1977-78], Postcards from the Edge, Sleepless in Seattle; director: When Harry Met Sally, This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men; Carl's son)
1947 - Dick Fosbury (Olympic Gold Medalist and record holder: high jump [7', 4 1/4", 1968]; National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 1st to break 7' indoors; invented the "Fosbury Flop" high jump technique)
1947 - Kiki Dee (Pauline Matthews) (singer: Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Amoureuse, (You Don't Know)How Glad I Am, Star)
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, Newark NJ, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96)
Famous deaths
1616 - Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1674 - Johann Paul Schor, German baroque painter, dies at 58
1836 - James Bowie, killed in battle at the Alamo
1836 - David Crockett, congressman, US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at the Alamo at 49
1836 - William B. Travis, killed in battle at the Alamo
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, US author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
1932 - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
1933 - Anton J Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, assassinated (killer was trying to shoot FDR)
1935 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.
1941 - John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73
1947 - Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55
1967 - Nelson Eddy, US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
1967 - Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (Hary Janos), dies at 84
1973 - Paul Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72
1973 - Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth -- Nobel 1938), dies at 80
1981 - Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent
1982 - Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), dies in NY at 77
1984 - Martin Niemoller, German U-boat capt/anti-Nazi minister, dies at 92
1986 - Georgia O'Keefe, US painter (Flowers), dies at 98
1989 - Harry Andrews, actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68
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