WillDekkard
03-06-2010, 03:59 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 6th
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* 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
* 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
* 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
* 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes 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 thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
* 1840 – Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.
* 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice.
* 1857 – Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
* 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
* 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
* 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
* 1945 – Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
* 1945 – Cologne is captured by American Troops.
* 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
* 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
* 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1957 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
* 1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
* 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
* 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
* 1970 – Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
* 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
* 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
* 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
* 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
* 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
* 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
* 1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
* 2006 – South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
* 2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
* 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
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- March 6th
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* 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
* 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
* 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
* 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes 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 thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
* 1840 – Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.
* 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice.
* 1857 – Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
* 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
* 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
* 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
* 1945 – Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
* 1945 – Cologne is captured by American Troops.
* 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
* 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
* 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* 1957 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
* 1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
* 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
* 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
* 1970 – Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
* 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
* 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
* 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
* 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
* 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
* 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
* 1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
* 2006 – South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
* 2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
* 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
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