Thursday, March 6th, 2014 TODAY IN HISTORY: 1323 - Treaty of Paris 1521 - Magellan “discovers” Guam 1808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard 1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy 1831 - Vincenzo Bellinis opera La Sonnambula premieres in Milan 1834 - Toronto incorporated 1836 - Battle of the Alamo: after 13 days of fighting during Texas Revolution between 1,500 and 3,000 Mexicans overwhelmed the Texans at the Alamo. Between 182 and 257 Texians died, including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett. Viva la Raza! 1836 - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach King Georges Sound, Australia 1853 - Giuseppe Verdis Opera La Traviata premieres in Venice 1857 - Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens 1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army 1865 - President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society 1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king 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 (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer 1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) 1944 - USAAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin 1946 - France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation 1950 - Silly Putty invented 1953 - Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR 1957 - Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK 1964 - Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali 1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford 1967 - Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison 1967 - Stalins daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US 1970 - Beatles release Let it Be in UK 1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute 1978 - Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia 1981 - Walter Cronkite sign-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News 1983 - Helmut Kohls CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections 1983 - US Football League begins its 1st season 1984 - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins 1985 - Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight, Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of King & I 1986 - USSRs Vega 1 flies by Halleys Comet at 8,889 km 1998 - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: 1475 – Michelangelo, painter (d.1564) 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon) 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet/author, d.1861 (How Do I Love Thee?) 1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) 1893 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues 1903 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000) 1906 - Lou Costello, Paterson NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) 1923 - Ed McMahon, Detroit Mich, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search), Wes Montgomery, American guitarist 1926 - Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor, US Fed Chairman 1927 - Gabriel García Márquez, Aracataca, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature) 1936 - Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC, 1979-90, 95- ) 1937 - Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6) 1944 - Mary Wilson, Detroit Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go) 1946 - David Jon Gilmour, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall) 1947 - Rob Reiner, Bronx NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me) 1949 - Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na) 1954 – Joey DeMaio, American guitarist (Manowar) 1959 - Tom Arnold, Iowa, American actor (True Lies) 1963 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor, Suzanne Crough (Partridge Family) 1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor 1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X) 1970 – Chris Broderick, American guitarist (Megadeth, Nevermore, Jag Panzer) 1972 - Shaquille ONeal, Newark NJ, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96) 1974 – Beanie Sigel, American rapper 1991 – Tyler the Creator, American rapper
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