On This Day in History for March 6

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• 1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
• 1323 Treaty of Paris - Flemish relinquish claims over the County of Zeeland
• 1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
• 1454 Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agrees to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
• 1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa

• 1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
• 1590 Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Nassau captures heavily protected city of Breda using a small assault force hidden in a peat barge
• 1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
• 1646 Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts

• 1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
• 1714 Treaty of Rastatt signed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and France ending War of Spanish Succession
• 1728 Spain & Britain sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
• 1775 1st Negro Mason in north America initiated, Boston
• 1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island to found a convict settlement

• 1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
• 1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany

• 1834 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor

• 1838 Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt" premieres in Vienna
• 1851 Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze" premieres in London
• 1855 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet

• 1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
• 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas (Elkhorn Tavern)
• 1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida

• 1882 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
• 1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
• 1886 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC
• 1896 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
• 1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
• 1900 After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901)

• 1902 Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by Congress
• 1904 The Japanese fleet bombards Vladivostok, the major Russian port on the Pacific
• 1906 Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands


• 1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers

• 1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
• 1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
• 1921 Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
• 1921 The Natal Indian Congress is resuscitated and reorganised at a meeting in Durban, with Ismail Gora as President
• 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 government cuts military budget
• 1925 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith
• 1926 China asks for a seat on the Security council
• 1929 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty

• 1933 Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in NYC
• 1933 Poland occupies the free city of Danzig (Gdańsk)
• 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

• 1944 USAAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
• 1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
• 1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
• 1945 Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis
• 1945 Federico Garcia 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 goes on sale in the US
• 1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months

• 1953 Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR

• 1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
• 1957 Centenary of Dred Scott slavery court decision marked by rediscovery of Scott's grave
• 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 12½ year 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 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)
• 1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
• 1966 Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
• 1967 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
• 1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
• 1970 A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland
• 1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
• 1973 In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)
• 1974 An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino
• 1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• 1976 Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (Soviet Union)

• 1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
• 1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)

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• 1340 John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, founder of the English royal House of Lancaster, born in Ghent (d. 1399)
• 1405 King John II of Castile (d. 1454)
• 1459 Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant

• 1483 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney/president of Romagna
• 1492 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
• 1495 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)
• 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright (Voyage to the Moon), known for his large nose
• 1663 Francis Atterbury, English man of letters and priest, born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (d. 1732)
• 1698 John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
• 1706 George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
• 1716 Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
• 1740 Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)

• 1761 Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General and diplomat (d. 1828)
• 1765 Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
• 1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
• 1791 Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures

• 1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
• 1817 Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
• 1818 William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
• 1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, American Major General (Union Army), born in Clinton, Connecticut (d. 1899)
• 1831 Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
• 1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, Major General (Union Army), born in Albany, New York
• 1834 George du Maurier, Franco-British illustrator and writer (Trilby), born in Paris, France (d. 1896)
• 1835 Charles Ewing, American attorney and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 1883)
• 1882 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
• 1882 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), born in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1962)
• 1890 Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
• 1893 Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street)
• 1900 John Henry Pyle Pafford, British librarian (University of London), born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (d. 1996)
• 1901 Mark Donskoy, Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother)
• 1903 Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
• 1904 José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
• 1909 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian statesman and nationalist, born in Ikenne, British Nigeria (d. 1987)
• 1911 Charles Frank, physicist
• 1912 Madge Adam, astronomer
• 1913 David Bowman, trade unionist
• 1915 Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
• 1917 J A Mommersteeg, Dutch asst sect of Defense (KVP)
• 1917 Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
• 1919 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
• 1921 Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US)
• 1922 Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
• 1923 Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president (Wolfson at Oxford)
• 1924 William H. Webster, American judge, Director of the FBI (1978-87) and Director of the CIA (1987-91), born in St. Louis, Missouri

• 1926 Elwood H [Bud] Hillis, (Rep-R-IN, 1971- )
• 1927 John Fairchild, CEO (Fairchild publishing), born in Newark, New Jersey
• 1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)
• 1929 Hal Miller, British MP
• 1929 Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
• 1929 Tom Foley, American politician (Rep-D, 1965-1995) and speaker of the house (1989-95), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 2013)
• 1931 David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
• 1931 Hal Needham, American stuntman, (d. 2013)
• 1933 Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
• 1936 A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
• 1936 Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Washington, D.C., 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment
• 1937 Ivan Boesky, stockbroker inside trading, born in Detroit, Michigan

• 1938 Pauline Boty, English artist, born in London (d. 1966)
• 1939 Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri)
• 1939 Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
• 1941 Ann Winterton, British MP
• 1946 Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18)
• 1946 Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1946 Richard Noble, Scottish businessman (land speed record 1983-97), born in Edinburgh
• 1947 Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
• 1948 James FCS "Jim" Woude, cartoonist
• 1952 Lyn Perrin, executive administrator (WIC)
• 1953 Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
• 1955 Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (1994) who was assassinated at the start of the Rwandan genocide, born in Mubimbi, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi (d. 1994)
• 1959 Saul Anuzis, American politician
• 1962 Valerie French, American animatronics art director
• 1967 Mihai Tudose, Romanian politician, Prime Minister (2017-), born in Brăila, Romania
• 1984 Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
• 1985 Alaska Thunderf**k [Justin Andrew Honard], American drag queen and TV performer (RuPaul's Drag Race), born in Erie, Pennsylvania

• 766 Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
• 1252 Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
• 1490 Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
• 1531 Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
• 1583 Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger Catechism), dies at 48
• 1615 Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st gov-gen (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns
• 1616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
• 1627 Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
• 1674 Johann Paul Schor, German baroque painter, dies at 58
• 1720 Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter, buried at 63

• 1758 Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
• 1764 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 73
• 1796 Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, dies at 82
• 1815 Lungtok Gyatso, 9th Dalai Lama, dies at 9

• 1836 James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
• 1836 Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
• 1836 James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (Texas Revolution), dies at 39
• 1842 Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
• 1844 Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1811-35), dies at 91
• 1846 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49 [NS]
• 1854 Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80
• 1854 Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
• 1866 William Whewell, English polymath and philosopher (History of Inductive Science), dies at 71
• 1881 Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)

• 1895 Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
• 1899 Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
• 1900 Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
• 1905 John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician, dies at 86
• 1912 August Toepler, German physicist, dies at 75
• 1917 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
• 1933 Anton Cermak, American politician (Mayor of Chicago, 1931-1933), dies 23 days after being shot in Miami at age 59
• 1933 Anton J Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, murdered

• 1939 Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (Proving π is a transcendental number), dies at 86
• 1941 John Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73
• 1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed
• 1944 Ernst Cohen, Dutch chemist, gassed at Auschwitz concentration camp at 74
• 1945 Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
• 1948 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), dies at 33
• 1950 Albert Lebrun, President of France (1932-40), dies at 78
• 1951 Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman, dies at 70
• 1954 Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
• 1963 Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91
• 1964 King Paul I, King of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62
• 1968 Joseph Martin Jr, Speaker of the House, dies at 83
• 1969 Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
• 1971 Raymond Herreman, Belgian poet, journalist and writer (Jericho's Rose), dies at 74
• 1973 Pearl S. Buck, American author (Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938), dies at 80
• 1973 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67
• 1981 Klaus Grabowski, German alleged murderer and convicted sex offender, shot and killed in Lübeck District Court by Marianne Bachmeier the mother of the daughter he was accused of murdering
• 1984 Martin Niemöller, German submarine capt/anti-nazi minister, dies at 92
• 1985 Eric Sloane, US artist, dies at 80

• 1992 Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat), dies
• 1992 Maria Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Mirror Palace), dies at 83
• 1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35
• 1993 Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns), dies at 58
• 1994 Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89
• 1994 Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71
• 1995 David Beinhoff, mayor, dies at 24
• 1995 Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78
• 1995 Helene Virginie Weijel, Dutch author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44
• 1996 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88
• 1997 Anthony Hopkins, English clinical neurologist and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, dies at 59
• 1997 Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier (1953, 1957-64) dies
• 1997 Michael Manley, Jamaican PM (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92), dies
• 1998 Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
• 1999 Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, 1st emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), dies of a heart attack at 65
• 2003 John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
• 2005 Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
• 2005 Hans Bethe, German-American quantum physicist (Nobel 1967), dies at 98
• 2006 Anne Braden, American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator, dies at 81
• 2007 Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (b. 1929)
• 2007 Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
• 2008 Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana
• 2009 Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
• 2009 Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1959)
• 2010 Mark Linkous, member of Sparklehorse (b. 1962)
• 2012 Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75
• 2012 Donald Payne, American Congressman, dies from colon cancer at 77

• 2018 Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet and academic (Noctuary), dies at 61
• 2018 Ferdousi Priyabhashini, Bangladeshi sculptor (Independence Day Award-2010), dies at 71
• 2018 Sir John E. Sulston, British molecular biologist, co-recipient of 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (roundworm genome sequencing), dies of stomach cancer at 75

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