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Events from History on March 06

1079 : Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1205 : Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 : Treaty of Paris
1447 : Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1460 : Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Is for W Africa
1521 : Magellan discovers Guam
1579 : Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 : Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
1628 : Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 : Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1664 : King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1665 : Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1714 : Peace of Rastatt - French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1728 : Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1775 : 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
1799 : Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1808 : 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 : Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1816 : Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1831 : Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1831 : Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy
1831 : Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1834 : Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
1836 : 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
1836 : HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
1838 : Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lgt," premieres in Vienna
1851 : Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London
1853 : Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1855 : Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
1857 : Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
1861 : Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 : Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 : Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1865 : President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball
1882 : Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
1886 : 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1886 : 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC
1895 : J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) Eng v Aust
1896 : 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 : "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1902 : Census Bureau forms
1906 : Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
1906 : Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
1906 : Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
1909 : Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna
1915 : Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1918 : US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1919 : to 1 with 1 tie
1921 : Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts
1921 : at least 4 inches below the knee
1922 : Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year NY Yankee contract
1922 : GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in NYC
1923 : Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
1924 : British Labour govt cuts military budget
1925 : Belgium annexes Eupen, Malm‚dy & Sankt Vith
1926 : China asks for a seat in the Security council
1929 : Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
1930 : Bkln's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1933 : FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
1933 : Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in NYC
1933 : Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
1934 : Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in NYC
1935 : Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
1936 : Belgium ends Locarno-pact
1940 : 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC
1943 : Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommels assault attack
1943 : Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1944 : USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
1945 : 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
1945 : Assassination attempt on H”here, SS Police fhrer Rauter
1945 : Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
1945 : Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis
1945 : Federico Garc¡a Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires
1946 : France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1947 : XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA
1950 : Silly Putty invented
1951 : Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
1953 : Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR
1955 : Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"
1957 : Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
1959 : 11st Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
1959 : Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960 : President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
1961 : 1st London minicabs introduced
1961 : Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12« year govt jubilee
1961 : Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
1962 : St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
1962 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 : US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1964 : Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
1964 : Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
1964 : Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher)
1964 : Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)
1965 : "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 perfs
1965 : 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
1965 : Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
1966 : Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1967 : 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
1967 : Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1967 : Muhammad Ali is order by selective service to be inducted
1967 : Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1967 : WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 : Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
1971 : Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain
1972 : Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1972 : Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
1973 : In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes
1973 : the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)
1974 : "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
1974 : An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1976 : Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
1976 : Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)
1976 : Men's Fig Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB)
1976 : Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill
1978 : Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga
1980 : French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist
1980 : (Marguerita Youcenar)
1980 : Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
1980 : Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
1981 : France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 : Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
1981 : Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
1981 : Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
1982 : Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1983 : "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
1983 : Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
1983 : New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
1983 : US Football League begins its 1st season
1985 : Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
1985 : M‚xican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
1985 : Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
1986 : Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London
1986 : USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1987 : 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
1987 : Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die
1987 : XXX actress Linda Lovelace receives a liver transplant
1988 : 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000
1988 : 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1988 : Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
1988 : Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament
1989 : Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
1990 : SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1991 : Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
1991 : Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, Pres
1992 : Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
1994 : Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
1994 : United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1995 : 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
1995 : American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
1995 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
1995 : US 4.5› equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
1996 : 10th American Comedy Award
1996 : 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1996 : Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya
1998 : 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1998 : Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery

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