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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