Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). There are 298 days remaining. It is 啓蟄 (Keichitsu) in the Japanese calendar. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope. 1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas - Portugal gives Castile the Canary Islands in exchange for claims in West Africa. 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam. 1820 - For the second time the Missouri Compromise is signed by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free. 1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto. 1836 - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken. 1857 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. 1899 - Bayer registeres aspirin as a trademark. 1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners. 1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany. 1946 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union. 1947 - The Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia. 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. 1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana. 1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece. 1964 - Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds. 1970 - Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lies to help finance his defense. 1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute. 1981 - After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time. 1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition. 1984 - Twelve month long strike in British coal industry begins. 1987 - Off the coast of Belgium in the English Channel, the British ferry The Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes killing 189. 1992 - The 'Michelangelo' computer virus begins to affect computers. 1997 - Picasso's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery (it was recovered a week later). Births 1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter († 1564) 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, soldier, poet 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet († 1861) 1831 - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, theologian († 1910) 1885 - Ring Lardner, writer (†1933) 1898 - Therese Giehse, actress († 1975) 1904 - Joseph Schmidt, tenor (†1942) 1905 - Bob Wills, country music singer († 1975) 1906 - Lou Costello, actor, comedian († 1959) 1923 - Ed McMahon, television personality 1923 - Jürgen von Manger, cabaretist († 1994) 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director 1927 or 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982 1927 - Wes Montgomery, musician 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut 1929 - Günter Kunert, writer and lyricist 1930 - Lorin Maazel, opera conductor 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 Deaths 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, novelist 1929 - David Buick, automobile pioneer 1932 - John Philip Sousa, band leader, conductor, composer 1933 - Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, wounded weeks earlier by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies of his injuries 1941 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor 1951 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer 1965 - Margaret Dumont, actress 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, composer 1967 - Nelson Eddy, singer, actor 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, writer 1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, boxer, actor 1982 - Ayn Rand, author 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, artist Holidays and observances See Also: March 5 - March 7 - February 6 - April 6 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.