TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 6
1521 Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
1820 The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress and signed by President James Monroe, providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibits slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett
1857 The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision holds that blacks cannot be citizens.
1884 Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, present President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
1899 Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman’s discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid.
1902 Census Bureau forms
1930 Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1965 The United States announces that it will send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
1967 Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted
1967 Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his plan to establish a draft lottery.
1973 President Richard Nixon imposes price controls on oil and gas.
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1981 President Reagan announces plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
1991 Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over”
1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to take affect
1998 First time the British Union Flag is flown over Buckingham Palace (following the controversy after Princess Dian’s death; formerly the only flag flown was the Sovereign’s standard indicating the monarch’s presence.)
2001 US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances
2007 Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
2015 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
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