Historical Events on March 6

1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam

1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict

1664 King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures city of Jaffa, Palestine, after a 5 day siege, defeating the Ottoman Empire

1831 Edgar Allan Poe removed from West Point military academy

1835 Volume One of Thomas Carlyle's famous work "The French Revolution: A History" is accidentally burnt by a maid using it as fire starter before its publication. Carlyle re-writes it.

1851 Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze" premieres in London

1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice

1857 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens

1865 US President Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball

1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society

1901 In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

1909 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Griselda" premieres in Vienna

1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos

1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year

1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday

1933 Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in NYC

1943 Battle at Medenine, North Africa: Rommel's counterattack

1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers

1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline

1951 The trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins

1953 Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR

1955 Dutch premiere of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

1959 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr win

1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"

1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Bonnie Guitar win

1972 Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner

1976 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by American Dorothy Hamill

1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia

1980 Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 1st time

1981 Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"

1983 Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections

1985 Future undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes at 1:47 in round 1 of 4 in Albany, NY in his first professional fight

1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I"

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"

1995 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield

1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.

1998 British Union Flag begins to be flown full-mast over Buckingham Palace whenever British monarch not in residence, following change of protocol after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales

2000 Long-time Boston Bruin defenseman Ray Bourque is traded to the Colorado Avalanche

2017 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq

2018 Pope Francis announces that murdered Salvadorean Archbishop Óscar Romero will be made a saint

2018 Forbes names Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the world's richest person for the first time at $112 billion, Bill Gates no. 2

2019 LeBron James scores his 32,293rd point in the 2nd quarter of a Lakers' 115-99 loss to Denver in LA to pass Michael Jordan into 4th place on the NBA all-time point scoring list

2019 Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to turn the social media platform into a more "privacy-focused platform"