Today in History
6th March
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| 1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar | ||
| 1205 Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King | ||
| 1323 Treaty of Paris | ||
| 1405 Johan II, King of Castille was born | ||
| 1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V | ||
| 1459 Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant was born | ||
| 1460 Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa | ||
| 1475 Michelangelo, the Italian painter, sculptor and architect, was born. Described as the most brilliant representative of the Italian Renaissance, his works include the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the painting of "The Last Judgment" and his statue of "David." | ||
| 1480 The Treaty of Toledo was signed; under its terms, Spain recognized Portugal's conquest of Morocco and Portugal ceded claims to the Canary Islands. | ||
| 1483 Francesco Guicciardini, Ital attorney/president of Romagna was born | ||
| 1521 Magellan discovers Guam | ||
| 1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht | ||
| 1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda" | ||
| 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French satirist and dramatist, was born | ||
| 1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict | ||
| 1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent | ||
| 1664 King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant | ||
| 1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing | ||
| 1714 Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg | ||
| 1728 Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo | ||
| 1775 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston | ||
| 1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine | ||
| 1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet was born | ||
| 1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany | ||
| 1831 Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan | ||
| 1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy | ||
| 1834 The city of Toronto was incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its first mayor. | ||
| 1836 The siege of the Alamo ended when Mexican troops under Santa Anna captured the mission fort garrisoned by Davey Crockett and 154 Texans. | ||
| 1836 HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia | ||
| 1855 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet | ||
| 1857 Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens | ||
| 1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army | ||
| 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern) | ||
| 1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida | ||
| 1865 President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball | ||
| 1882 Prince Milan IV proclaimed himself king of Serbia; seven years later on the same date he abdicated in favor of his son Alexander. | ||
| 1888 Louisa May Alcott, U.S. novelist and author of "Little Women," died. | ||
| 1899 "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann | ||
| 1900 Gottfried Daimler, motor engineer who made the first motorcycle, died. | ||
| 1902 Census Bureau forms | ||
| 1906 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands | ||
| 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers | ||
| 1909 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna | ||
| 1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos | ||
| 1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle | ||
| 1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms | ||
| 1924 British Labour govt cuts military budget | ||
| 1925 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malm‚dy & Sankt Vith | ||
| 1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council | ||
| 1929 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty | ||
| 1930 Prepackaged frozen food produced by the company set up by Clarence Birdseye went on sale for the first time in 10 stores in Springfield Massachusetts. | ||
| 1932 John Philip Sousa, U.S. bandmaster and composer of military marches, died. | ||
| 1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday | ||
| 1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) | ||
| 1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact | ||
| 1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC | ||
| 1941 U.S. sculptor Gutzon Borglum died; he carved the heads of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. | ||
| 1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack | ||
| 1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers | ||
| 1944 658 U.S. bombers began a daylight attack on Berlin from bases in Britain and dropped 2,000 tons of bombs. | ||
| 1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm945, 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm | ||
| 1945 Assassination attempt on Hhere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter | ||
| 1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio | ||
| 1945 Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis | ||
| 1945 Federico Garcja Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires | ||
| 1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation | ||
| 1950 Silly Putty invented | ||
| 1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months | ||
| 1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeded Stalin as premier and first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. | ||
| 1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) became an independent country within the Commonwealth. | ||
| 1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament | ||
| 1961 1st London minicabs introduced | ||
| 1961 Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12« year govt jubilee | ||
| 1962 St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals | ||
| 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | ||
| 1962 US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression | ||
| 1964 King Constantine II of Greece succeeded to the throne after the death of his father, Paul I. | ||
| 1964 Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali | ||
| 1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford | ||
| 1967 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison | ||
| 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, requested asylum at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. | ||
| 1967 Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly died | ||
| 1971 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain | ||
| 1973 Pearl Buck, U.S. author of "The Good Earth," died; she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. | ||
| 1980 Belgian-born French author Marguerite Yourcenar became the first woman writer to be elected to the Academie Francaise. | ||
| 1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC | ||
| 1983 Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democrats were returned to power in Germany. | ||
| 1983 Donald Maclean, British diplomat and Soviet spy, died in Moscow. | ||
| 1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100 | ||
| 1987 A Townsend Thoreson ferry, the Herald of Free Enterprise, capsized on its way out of Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium; 193 people drowned. | ||
| 1988 Three members of an Irish Republican Army unit were shot dead in a Gibraltar street by undercover SAS commandos. | ||
| 1991 Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" | ||
| 1991 Indian Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, in office only four months, resigned after losing the support of Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) party. | ||
| 1991 George Carey became Archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans. | ||
| 1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine | ||
| 1992 The president of Azerbaijan, Ayaz Mutalibov, resigned over his handling of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. | ||
| 1992 A computer virus called "Michelangelo" struck thousands of personal computers around the world. | ||
| 1994 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress turned fiery Socialist politician, died after a long battle with lung cancer. | ||
| 1994 United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy | ||
| 1995 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets | ||
| 1997 King Birendra accepted Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's resignation after his center-right coalition was defeated in a confidence vote in parliament. | ||
| 1997 Michael Manley, the former prime minister of Jamaica and a leading figure in Caribbean politics, died. | ||
| 1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace | ||
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