1521<\/strong> – Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.<\/p>\n 1808<\/strong> – At Harvard University, the first college orchestra was founded.<\/p>\n 1820<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1834<\/strong> – The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.<\/p>\n 1836<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1854<\/strong> – At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope’s Stone from the lapidarium.<\/p>\n 1857<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.<\/p>\n 1886<\/strong> – “The Nightingale” was first published. It was the first magazine for nurses.<\/p>\n 1899<\/strong> – Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dresser.<\/p>\n 1900<\/strong> – In West Virginia, an explosion trapped 50 coal miners underground.<\/p>\n 1901<\/strong> – An assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen.<\/p>\n 1907<\/strong> – British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the U.S. had failed to collect debts.<\/p>\n 1928<\/strong> – A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek “peace with honor.”<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Les Hite and his orchestra recorded “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise”.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of John L. Lewis.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The first air-conditioned naval ship, “The Newport News,” was launched from Newport News, VA.<\/p>\n 1957<\/strong> – The British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – Tom O\u2019Hara set a new world indoor record when he ran the mile in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – Charles Manson released his album “Lies” to finance his defense against murder charges.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – Iran and Iraq announced that they had settled their border dispute.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.” He had been on the job 19 years.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – 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<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Yul Brynner played his 4,500th performance in the musical “The King and I.”<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise<\/i> capsized in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. 189 people died.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – The last episode of “The Cosby Show” aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – The computer virus “Michelangelo” went into effect.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – A gunman stole “Tete de Femme,” a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. The painting was recovered a week later.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.<\/p>\n 2003 <\/strong>\u2013 Air Alg\u00e9rie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar \u2013 Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.<\/sup><\/p>\n 2008 <\/strong>\u2013 A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> – The NASA space probe Dawn<\/i> entered orbit around the protoplanet Ceres in the asteroid belt.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History of 6 March – 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. 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