Interesting things that happened March 6th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1475 Michelangelo Buanarroti (in Caprese, Italy), Renaissance artist
In 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, writer
In 1756 Aaron Burr, duelist
In 1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
In 1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
In 1831 General Philip H. Sheridan, military leader
In 1923 Ed McMahon, #1 second banana, famed announcer, sweepstakes
harbinger
In 1924 Sarah Caldwell (in Maryville, MO), Conductor
+ William Webster, FBI director
In 1927 Gordon Cooper Jr., astronaut
In 1936 Marion Barry, former Wa****ngton, D.C. mayor
In 1937 Merle Haggard, singer
+ Valentina Tereshkova (in Russia), cosmonaut, first woman in
space
In 1940 Joanna Miles (in Nice, France)
In 1942 Ben Murphy, actor (Alias Smith and Jones)
In 1944 Mary Wilson, singer (Supremes)
In 1945 Rob Reiner, actor (All in the Family), director (Spinal Tap)
In 1947 Kiki Dee (in York****re, England), singer
In 1953 Jackie Zeman (Bergenfield, NJ), actor (General Hospital,
National
Lampoon's Class Reunion)
Events worth noting:
In 1665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first
published, and is still published today.
In 1836 The Alamo falls. (Remember it!)
In 1857 Dred Scott decision - a slave cannot sue for freedom in federal
court..
In 1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida.
In 1913 The first printed reference to "jazz" appears in the San
Francisco
Bulletin.
In 1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye puts the first individually
packaged
frozen foods on sale, in Springfield, Mass.
In 1957 The Gold Coast gains independence and takes the name Ghana.
In 1963 Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copus, and Hawkshaw Hawkins die in a plane
crash.
In 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin, walks into the US
embassy in New Delhi and requests political asylum.
+ Svetlana Alliluyeva's defection to the West is publicly
announced.
In 1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth.
And remember ...
Foot Health Month
International Hamburger and Pickle Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Furniture Refini****ng Month
National Nutrition Month (US)
National Peanut Month
National Women's History Month
Red Cross Month
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