March 6 - Events

Events

• 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from theTeutonic Knights.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
• 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allowsMissouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchaseterritory slavery-free.
• 1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexicantroops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
• 1840 – Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.
• 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice.
• 1857 – Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
• 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
• 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• 1945 – Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
• 1945 – Cologne is captured by American Troops.
• 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
• 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• 1953 – Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1957 – United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
• 1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
• 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
• 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
• 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1970 – Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
• 1975 – For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
• 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
• 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
• 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
• 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion ofOperation Flavius.
• 1992 – Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
• 2006 – South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs legislation banning most abortions in the state.
• 2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
• 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, inJerusalem, Israel.