March 6 holidays in 2023

Historical Events on March 6

• 1820: United States President James Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise into law. This law allows the state of Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, Maine to enter as a free state and makes the rest of the northern portion of the Louisiana Purchase Territory free of slavery.
• 1834: Part of Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
• 1836: After holding off the siege of over three thousand Mexican troops for 13-days, 187 Texas volunteers are killed – including Colonel Jim Bowie and frontiersman Davy Crockett at the Battle of the Alamo.
• 1857: In the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, the U.S Supreme Court comes to a decision.
• 1899: Aspirin is registered by Bayer as a registered trademark.
• 1945: American forces capture Cologne during World War II.
• 1945: The last major German Offensive of World War II – Operation Spring Awakening – begins on this day.
• 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s trial starts on this day.
• 1970: 3 people are killed during an explosion at the Weather Underground safe house located in Greenwich Village.
• 1981: Walter Cronkite has his last appearance on the CBS Evening News after almost 20 years of presenting the news.

Famous Birthdays on March 6

• Italian painter and sculptor, Michelangelo is born in 1475.
• Italian painter Santi di Tito is born in 1536.
• English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is born in 1806.
• American comedian and actor, Lou Costello is born in 1906.
• Scottish-American singer and actress, Ella Logan is born in 1910.
• American illustrator Will Eisner is born in 1917.
• American economist Alan Greenspan is born in 1926.
• American screenwriter William J. Bell is born in 1927.
• American actress Connie Britton is born in 1967.
• American actress and director, Moira Kelly is born in 1968.
• American actress Ellen Muth is born in 1981.
• American actor Eli Marienthal is born in 1986.
• English footballer Nathan Redmond is born in 1994.
• American basketball player Marcus Smart is born in 1994.