March 6

Scott Winters March 6, 2026 0 Comments

Discover what happened on March 6 in history, along with notable celebrity birthdays and fun Days of the Year to celebrate.

TODAY IN HISTORY:

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.

1854 – Several men stole the Pope’s Stone from the lapidarium at the Washington Monument.

1857 – The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.

1896 – Charles B. King drove the first car in Detroit, MI (three months prior to Henry Ford making his first car). King was probably was the first person in Michigan to operate a gasoline powered car in public.

1899 – Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser. Bayer registered “Aspirin” as a trademark.

1912 – Nabisco introduced Oreo cookies in Hoboken, New Jersey. They now come in more than 20 different flavors. If you took all of the Oreos that were ever made and stacked them on top of each other, they would reach the moon and back more than five times.

1947 – The first air-conditioned naval ship, “The Newport News,” was launched from Newport News, VA.

1950 – Silly Putty was introduced.

1960 – The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.

1964 – New heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, shortly after announcing that he wanted to be known as Cassius X, changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.

1970 – Charles Manson released an album to help finance his murder defense. The cover of “Lie” is a “Life” magazine cover of Manson, with the “f” deleted.

1973 – President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.

1975 – The Zapruder film of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was shown for the first time to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

1981 – After 19 years, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as anchorman of “The CBS Evening News”.

1981 – President Ronald Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.

1982 – National Basketball Association history was made when San Antonio Spurs beat Milwaukee Bucks 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the record for most points by two teams in a game. That record was then beaten on December 13, 1983 by the Detroit Pistons and the Denver 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.

1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles, CA to Washington, DC in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.

1992 – After eight seasons, the last episode of “The Cosby Show” aired. The show debuted in September of 1984.

1992 – The computer virus “Michelangelo” began to affect computers.

1998 – The film “The Big Lebowski” opened in theaters.

2001 – The FBI confirmed that it was investigating a kidnapping plot against actor Russell Crowe.

2002 – Independent counsel Robert Ray ended the Whitewater probe, ending the threat of criminal liability for former President Bill Clinton.

2018 – The world’s oldest message in a bottle was found in Western Australia. It was thrown from the German ship Paula 132 years earlier.

2020 – The first cancellation of a major event due to COVID-19 — the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, TX.

BIRTHDAYS:

Alan Greenspan – 100 years old (1926) – Economist and politician

Joanna Miles – 86 years old (1940) – French-American actress

Ben Murphy – 84 years old (1942) – Actor

Martin Kove – 80 years old (1946) – Actor

Anna Maria Horsford – 79 years old (1947) – Actress

John Stossel – 79 years old (1947) – Journalist and author

Stephen Schwartz – 78 years old (1948) – Composer and producer

Carolyn Porco – 73 years old (1953) – Astronomer and academic

Jeff Greenwald – 72 years old (1954) – Author, photographer, and monologist

Tom Arnold – 67 years old (1959) – Actor, comedian, and television host

Sleepy Floyd – 66 years old (1960) – Basketball player and coach

D. L. Hughley – 63 years old (1963) – Actor, producer, and screenwriter

Connie Britton – 59 years old (1967) – Actress

Glenn Greenwald – 59 years old (1967) – Journalist and author

Shuler Hensley – 59 years old (1967) – Actor and singer

Moira Kelly – 58 years old (1968) – Actress and director

Carla McGhee – 58 years old (1968) – Basketball player and coach

Amy Pietz – 57 years old (1969) – Actress

Chris Broderick – 56 years old (1970) – Musician and songwriter

Darrick Martin – 55 years old (1971) – Basketball player and coach

Shaquille O'Neal – 54 years old (1972) – Basketball player, actor, businessman, sportscaster, and rapper

Michael Finley – 53 years old (1973) – Basketball player

Greg Ostertag – 53 years old (1973) – Basketball player

Trent Willmon – 53 years old (1973) – Singer-songwriter and guitarist

Brad Schumacher – 52 years old (1974) – Swimmer

Beanie Sigel – 52 years old (1974) – Rapper

Ken Anderson – 50 years old (1976) – Wrestler and actor

Bubba Sparxxx – 49 years old (1977) – Rapper and songwriter

Sage Rosenfels – 48 years old (1978) – Football player

Chad Wicks – 48 years old (1978) – Wrestler

David Flair – 47 years old (1979) – Wrestler

Tim Howard – 47 years old (1979) – Soccer player

Ellen Muth – 45 years old (1981) – Actress

Chris Tomson – 42 years old (1984) – Drummer

Jake Arrieta – 40 years old (1986) – Baseball player

Timothy DeLaGhetto – 40 years old (1986) – Internet personality

Eli Marienthal – 40 years old (1986) – Actor

Leonys Martín – 38 years old (1988) – Cuban-American baseball player

Dwight Buycks – 37 years old (1989) – Basketball player

John Jenkins – 35 years old (1991) – Basketball player

Tyler – 35 years old (1991) – the Creator , American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor

Marcus Smart – 32 years old (1994) – Basketball player

Josh Hart – 31 years old (1995) – Basketball player

Christian Coleman – 30 years old (1996) – Sprinter

Kyle Trask – 28 years old (1998) – Football player

Armando Bacot – 26 years old (2000) – Basketball player

Jacob Bertrand – 26 years old (2000) – Actor

Milo Manheim – 25 years old (2001) – Actor

Millicent Simmonds – 23 years old (2003) – Actress

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