March 6 in History

March 6 is the 65th day of the year. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.

• 1476 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor, was born. He died in 1564.
• 1820 – The Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state.
• 1834 – York, Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
• 1836 – After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and Colonel Jim Bowie, defending the  Alamo  were killed and the fort captured.
• 1840 – The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opened, the first dental school.
• 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata premiered in Venice.
• 1857 – US Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, which said African-Americans could never be citizens.
• 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, died. She was born in 1832.
• 1899 – Bayer registered aspirin as a trademark.
• 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signed an agreement with France that recognized Vietnam as an autonomous state.
• 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage began.
• 1953 – Georgy Maksimilanovich Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union
• 1957 – Ghana becomes the first sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British.
• 1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, defected to the US.
• 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer & Nobel laureate, died. She was born in 1892.
• 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time.
• 1986 – Georgia O’Keeffe, American artist, died. She was born in 1887.
• 2010 – Betty Millard, writer, artist, political activist, philanthropist, and  feminist, died. She was born in 1911.