March 6 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam. 1808 - At Harvard University, the first college orchestra was founded. 1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. 1834 - The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto. 1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers. 1854 - At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Popes Stone from the lapidarium. 1857 - The U.S. Supreme Courts Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens. 1886 - The Nightingale was first published. It was the first magazine for nurses. 1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser. 1900 - In West Virginia, an explosion trapped 50 coal miners underground. 1901 - An assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen. 1907 - British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the U.S. had failed to collect debts. 1928 - A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow. 1939 - In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek peace with honor. 1941 - Les Hite and his orchestra recorded The World is Waiting for the Sunrise. 1944 - During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs. 1946 - Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 1947 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of John L. Lewis. 1947 - Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India. 1947 - The first air-conditioned naval ship, The Newport News, was launched from Newport News, VA. 1957 - The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. 1960 - Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections. 1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam. 1964 - Tom O’Hara set a new world indoor record when he ran the mile in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds. 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery. 1970 - Charles Manson released his album Lies to finance his defense against murder charges. 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas. 1975 - Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border dispute. 1980 - Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over American hostages to the Revolutionary Council. 1981 - Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. He had been on the job 19 years. 1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs. 1982 - National Basketball Association history was made when San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the record for most points by two teams in a game. The record was beaten on December 13, 1983 by the Pistons and the Nuggets when they played to a final score of 186-184 1983 - The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition. 1985 - Yul Brynner played his his 4,500th performance in the musical The King and I. 1987 - The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. 188 people died. 1990 - In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed. 1990 - The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property. 1991 - In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army. 1992 - The last episode of The Cosby Show aired. The show had been on since September of 1984. 1992 - The computer virus Michelangelo went into effect. 1997 - A gunman stole Tete de Femme, a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a week later. 1997 - Britains Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site. 1998 - A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself. Music History 1825 - Beethovens Opus 127: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major was performed for the first time. 1853 - Giuseppe Verdis La Traviata opera debuted in Venice. 1959 - The Drifters recorded There Goes My Baby. 1962 - Frank Sinatra recorded his final session for Capitol Records in Hollywood. 1970 - Charles Manson released his album Lies to finance his defense against murder charges. 1973 - John Lennons visa extension was canceled by the New York Office of the Immigration Department. It had been granted only five days before. 1976 - Fleetwood Macs Rhiannon was released. 1976 - EMI Records re-released all 22 British Beatles singles. In addition Yesterday was released for the first time on 45 in the U.K. 1977 - An Evening With Diana Ross aired on NBC-TV. 1989 - Smokey Robinsons autobiography Inside My Life was released. 1998 - Madonna did a rare live interview at MuchMusics Toronto headquarters. 1999 - George Jones was severely injured in a car accident. 2000 - Foxy Brown crashed her car into a fence in Brooklyn, NY. She was admitted for medical attention and released the next morning. Brown was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle by police. Birthdays Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 Cyrano De Bergerac 1619 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 Furry Lewis 1893 Bob Wills 1905 Lou Costello 1906 Ed McMahon 1923 Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman Wes Montgomery 1927 Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927 Gabriel Garcia-Marquez 1928 - Author (Love in the Time of Cholera) Lorin Maazel 1930 Marion Barry 1936 Sylvia Robinson 1936 Doug Dillard 1937 Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva 1937 Joanna Miles 1940 Willie Stargell 1941 Ben Murphy 1942 Mary Wilson 1944 - Singer (Supremes) Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 1944 Rob Reiner 1945 Hugh Grundy 1945 - Musician (The Zombies) Kiki Dee 1947 Dick Fosbury 1947 David Gimour 1947 - Musician (Pink Floyd) Tom Arnold 1959 - Actor Skip Ewing 1964 D.L. Hughley 1964 - Comedian, Actor (The Hughleys) Connie Britton 1968 - Actress Moira Kelly 1968 - Actress (Caroline in the City) Amy Pietz 1969 Shaquille ONeal 1972 - Basketball player Chris Tomson 1984 - Musician (Vampire Weekend) Today in Disaster History 1970 - In St. Moritz, Switzerland, a Bavaria Flug flight crashed short of the runway killing all 11 people onboard. 1987 - After leaving Belgian port of Zeebrugge, 188 people died when the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized. 366 people survived the incident. 2001 - In Fang Lin, Jiangxi, China, an explosion at an elementary school killed 41 people, most of them children. The story released by the state was that a deranged man set of explosives in the school. 2003 - In Tamanrasset, Algeria, 102 people died when an Algerian Boeing 737 crashed after takeoff. Today in Sports History 1973 - Larry Hisle (Minnesota Twins) became baseballs first designated hitter. The spring-training exhibition game was against the Pittsburgh Pirates. 1982 - National Basketball Association history was made when San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the record for most points by two teams in a game. The record was beaten on December 13, 1983 by the Pistons and the Nuggets when they played to a final score of 186-184 1983 - The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition. 1997 - Mike Gartner (Phoenix Coyotes) scored his 30th goal of the season. He set a record for scoring 30 goals in a season for the 17th time in his career.
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