Saturday, March 06, 2004
On This Day
March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining.
1480 - By the Treaty of Toledo, Ferdinand and Isabella recognize Afonso's African conquests, while he cedes the Canaries to Spain.
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.
1825 - Beethoven's Opus 127: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major was performed for the first time.
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.
1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's 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.
1930 - Clarence Birdseye's first frozen foods went on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
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.
1962 - Frank Sinatra recorded his final session for Capitol Records in Hollywood.
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.
1973 - John Lennon's visa extension was canceled by the New York Office of the Immigration Department. It had been granted only five days before.
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. 189 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 - Britain's 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.
1998 - Oasis' Liam Gallagher was charged in an Australian court after he allegedly headbutted a fan, breaking the fan's nose. He was released on $10,000 bail.
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
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, (d. 1564)
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet, (d. 1655)
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, (d. 1861)
1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian, (d. 1910)
1885 - Ring Lardner, writer, (d. 1933)
1898 - Therese Giehse, actress, (d. 1975)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor, (d. 1942)
1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer, (d. 1975)
1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian, (d. 1959)
1923 - Ed McMahon, television personality
1923 - Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist, (d. 1994)
1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician
1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
1929 - Günter Kunert, writer and lyricist
1930 - Lorin Maazel, opera conductor
1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
1936 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC
1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
1941 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer
1946 - David Gilmour, musican ("Pink Floyd")
1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
1947 - Dick Fosbury, athlete
1947 - Kiki Dee, singer
1959 - Tom Arnold, actor, comedian
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player
1979 - Brian Smith ¶ 3/06/2004 08:53:00 AM
1480 - By the Treaty of Toledo, Ferdinand and Isabella recognize Afonso's African conquests, while he cedes the Canaries to Spain.
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.
1825 - Beethoven's Opus 127: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major was performed for the first time.
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.
1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's 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.
1930 - Clarence Birdseye's first frozen foods went on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
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.
1962 - Frank Sinatra recorded his final session for Capitol Records in Hollywood.
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.
1973 - John Lennon's visa extension was canceled by the New York Office of the Immigration Department. It had been granted only five days before.
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. 189 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 - Britain's 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.
1998 - Oasis' Liam Gallagher was charged in an Australian court after he allegedly headbutted a fan, breaking the fan's nose. He was released on $10,000 bail.
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
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter, (d. 1564)
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet, (d. 1655)
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, (d. 1861)
1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian, (d. 1910)
1885 - Ring Lardner, writer, (d. 1933)
1898 - Therese Giehse, actress, (d. 1975)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor, (d. 1942)
1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer, (d. 1975)
1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian, (d. 1959)
1923 - Ed McMahon, television personality
1923 - Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist, (d. 1994)
1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director
1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician
1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut
1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982
1929 - Günter Kunert, writer and lyricist
1930 - Lorin Maazel, opera conductor
1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
1936 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC
1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
1941 - Willie Stargell, Baseball Hall of Famer
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer
1946 - David Gilmour, musican ("Pink Floyd")
1947 - Rob Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer
1947 - Dick Fosbury, athlete
1947 - Kiki Dee, singer
1959 - Tom Arnold, actor, comedian
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player
1979 - Brian Smith ¶ 3/06/2004 08:53:00 AM
