Today in History - March 6
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1255 Mar
6, Pope Alexander IV permitted Mindaugas to crown his son as king of
Lithuania.
(LHC, 3/6/03)
1454 Mar 6, Casimir
proclaimed the attachment of Prussia to Polish rule. This began a
13-year war over Prussia (1454-1466).
(LHC,3/6/03)
1475 Mar 6, Michelangelo
Buonarroti (d.1564), painter, sculptor and architect, was born. His
early mentor was Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello. His work
included “The Creation of Adam” and the “Pieta Rondanini.” He at one
time proposed to sculpt the 5,000 foot Monte Sagro in Carrara into the
statue of a giant.
(WUB, 1994, p. 904)(WSJ, 2/29/96, p.A-14)(AAP,
1964)(SFEC, 7/13/97, p.T11) (SFEC,10/19/97, p.T4)(HN, 3/6/98)
1513 Mar 6, Niccolo Machiavelli
was released from jail in Florence. He complained in verse that it was
difficult to write poetry there because people kept beating him up.
(ON, 11/04, p.4)
1521 Mar 6, Magellan discovered
Guam.
(HFA, '96, p.26)(HN, 3/6/98)
1646 Mar 6, Joseph Jenkes received
the 1st colonial machine patent.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1665 Mar 6, Philosophical
Transactions of Royal Society started publishing.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1674 Mar 6, Johann Paul Schor
(58), German baroque painter, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1763 Mar 6, Jean Xavier Lefevre,
composer, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1779 Mar 6, The US Congress
declared that only the federal government, and not individual states,
had the power to determine the legality of captures on the high seas.
This was the basis for the 1st test case of the US Constitution in
1808.
(ON, 12/01, p.9)
1791 Mar 6, Anna Claypoole Peale,
painted miniatures, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1799 Mar 6, Napoleon captured
Jaffa, Palestine. [see Mar 7]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1806 Mar 6, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning (d.1861), English poet, was born in Durham, England. She wrote
"Sonnets from the Portuguese." "Since when was genius found
respectable?"
(AP, 3/6/98)(HN, 3/6/99)(AP, 8/12/99)
1808 Mar 6, 1st college orchestra
in US was founded at Harvard.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1810 Mar 6, Illinois passed the
1st state vaccination legislation in US.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1812 Mar 6, Aaron Lufkin Dennison,
father of American watch making, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1816 Mar 6, Jews were expelled
from Free city of Lubeck, Germany.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1819 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court
ruled in McCulloch v. Maryland that the state could not impose a tax on
the notes of banks not chartered in the state. Luther Martin
represented Maryland in the landmark case.
(WSJ, 9/20/08,
p.A21)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCulloch_v._Maryland)
1820 Mar 6, The Missouri
Compromise, enacted by Congress, was signed by President James Monroe.
This compromise provided for the admission of Missouri into the Union
as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern
Louisiana Purchase territory. The compromise was invalidated in the
1856 Scott vs. Sanford case. [see Mar 3]
(HN, 3/6/98)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A3)
1831 Mar 6, Philip Henry Sheridan,
Union Army General and hero of the Battle of Cedar Creek, was born.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1831 Mar 6, Edgar Allan Poe failed
out of West Point. He was discharged from West Point for “gross neglect
of duty.” His parade uniform was supposedly incorrect.
(SFEC, 4/13/97, Z1 p.4)(HN, 3/6/98)
1834 Mar 6, The city of York in
Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1835 Mar 6, Charles Ewing
(d.1883), Brig General (Union volunteers), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1836 Mar 6, The Alamo fell after
fighting for 13 days. Angered by a new Mexican constitution that
removed much of their autonomy, Texans seized the Alamo in San Antonio
in December 1835. Mexican president General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
marched into Texas to put down the rebellion. By late February, 1836,
182 Texans, led by Colonel William Travis, held the former mission
complex against Santa Anna’s [3,000] 6,000 troops. At 4 a.m. on March
6, after fighting for 13 days, Santa Anna’s troops charged. In the
battle that followed, all the Alamo defenders were killed while the
Mexicans suffered about 2,000 casualties. Santa Anna dismissed the
Alamo conquest as “a small affair,” but the time bought by the Alamo
defenders’ lives permitted General Sam Houston to forge an army that
would win the Battle of San Jacinto and, ultimately, Texas’
independence. Mexican Lt. Col. Pena later wrote a memoir: "With Santa
Anna in Texas: Diary of Jose Enrique de la Pena," that described the
capture and execution of Davy Crockett (49) and 6 other Alamo
defenders. In 1975 a translation of the diary by Carmen Perry (d.1999)
was published. Apparently, only one Texan combatant survived Jose
María Guerrero, who persuaded his captors he had been forced to
fight. Women, children, and a black slave, were spared.
(AP, 3/6/98)(HN, 3/6/98)(HNPD, 3/6/99)(SFC, 6/15/99,
p.C6)(MC, 3/6/02)
1836 Mar 6, HMS Beagle and Darwin
reached King George's Sound, Australia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1844 Mar 6, Nicolai
Rimsky-Korsakov, orchestrator, composer, was born. His work included:
Flight of the Bumble Bee, Sadko, Mlada, Capriccio Espagnol, The Tsar's
Bride, Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1853 Mar 6, Giuseppe Verdi's
Opera, "La Traviata," premiered in Venice.
(AP, 3/6/98)(MC, 3/6/02)
1857 Mar 6, After years in
litigation, the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Roger Taney,
ruled that Dred Scott did not gain his freedom by living in a free
territory. The essence of the decision was that as a slave, Dred Scott
was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court. The
opinion also stated that Congress could not exclude slavery in the
territories and that blacks could not become citizens. That ruling
further increased the tension already simmering between the North and
the South. Dred Scott was a slave who accompanied his owner, army
surgeon John Emerson, to military posts in Wisconsin and Illinois in
1834-35. In 1846 Scott, backed by abolitionists, sued for his freedom
on the grounds that he became free when he lived in an area where
slavery was outlawed. Montgomery Blair (b.1813) was one of the lawyers
in the Scott vs. Sanford case. In this case the Supreme Court
invalidated the 1820 Missouri Compromise.
(AP, 3/6/98)(HN, 3/6/98)(HNPD, 3/11/99)(HN,
5/10/99)(SFC, 11/30/00, p.A3)
1860 Mar 6, While campaigning for
the presidency, Abraham Lincoln made a speech defending the right to
strike.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1861 Mar 6, Provisionary
Confederate Congress established Confederate Army.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1862 Mar 6, Battle of Pea Ridge,
AR (Elkhorn Tavern). [see Mar 7]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1865 Mar 6, President Lincoln's
2nd Inaugural Ball was held.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1865 Mar 6, The last Confederate
victory of the Civil War occurred at Natural Bridge crossing near
Tallahassee, Fla., when the forces of Union Gen’l. John Newton were
routed by entrenched southerners.
(HT, 3/97, p.10)(HN, 3/6/98)
1870 Mar 6, Oscar Strauss,
composer (Ein Walzertraum), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1884 Mar 6, Over 100 suffragists,
led by Susan B. Anthony, presented President Chester A. Arthur with a
demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
(HN, 3/6/99)
1885 Mar 6, Ring Lardner (d.1933),
American humorist and writer, was born. His books included You
Know Me Al (1916). "The family you come from isn't as important as the
family you're going to have."
(AP, 5/14/99)(HN, 3/6/01)(WSJ, 12/2/06, p.P8)
1886 Mar 6, The 1st US alternating
current power plant started in Great Barrington, MA.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1888 Mar 6, Louisa May Alcott
(1832) died in Boston just hours after the burial of her father. Her
novels included "Little Women" (1868). In 1998 "Little Women" premiered
in Houston as an opera by Mark Adomo.
(HN, 3/6/01)(WSJ, 8/29/01, p.A12)
1896 Mar 6, Charles B. King rode
his "Horseless Carriage," the 1st auto in Detroit.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1899 Mar 6, Richard Leo Simon,
publisher, partner of Max Schuster, was born.
(HN, 3/6/01)
1899 Mar 6, Aspirin was patented
following Felix Hoffman’s discoveries about the properties of
acetylsalicylic acid. Duisberg’s Bayer team released a drug they named
aspirin. In 2004 Diarmuid Jeffreys authored “Aspirin: The Remarkable
Story of a Wonder Drug.”
(HN, 3/6/01)(SSFC, 10/24/04, p.M6)
1900 Mar 6, Gottlieb Daimler (65),
designer of the 1st motorcycle, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1901 Mar 6, A would-be assassin
tried to kill Wilhelm II in Bremen.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1906 Mar 6, Lou Costello (d.1959),
American film comedian, was born in Paterson, NJ. He paired with Bud
Abbott in numerous films and the famous "Who's on First" routine.
(HN, 3/6/99)(MC, 3/6/02)
1909 Mar 6, Gerhart Hauptmann's
"Griselda," premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1910 Mar 6, In San Francisco a
dance marathon at Puckett’s Cotillion Hall ended and Manager Puckett
awarded $145 to six couples who broke the world record of 14 hours and
41 minutes. The contest had begun the previous evening with 17 couples.
(SSFC, 2/28/10, DB p.42)
1913 Mar 6, Stewart Granger, actor
(Saraband for Dead Lovers, Scaramouche), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1914 Mar 6, Kirill P. Kondrashin,
conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981), was born in Moscow, Russia.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1914 Mar 6, German Prince Wilhelm
de Wied was crowned as King of Albania.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1916 Mar 6, Rochelle Hudson,
actress (That's My Boy), was born in Okla City, OK.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1916 Mar 6, The Allies recaptured
Fort Douamont in France. A line of bayonets protruding from the earth
still testifies to French valor at Verdun in World War I.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1918 Mar 6, US naval boat
"Cyclops" disappeared in "Bermuda Triangle."
(MC, 3/6/02)
1921 Mar 6, Julius Rudel,
conductor (NYC Opera), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1921 Mar 6, The National
Association of Moving Picture Industry announced their intention to
censor U.S. movies.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1921 Mar 6, Police in Sunbury,
Penn., issued an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches
below the knee.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1922 Mar 6, G.B. Shaw's "Back to
Methusaleh III/IV," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1923 Mar 6, The Turkish National
Assembly rejected the Lausanne Treaty in Angora.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1924 Mar 6, Sarah Caldwell,
conductor, opera director (Flagstaff), was born in Maryville, Mo.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1924 Mar 6, William H. Webster, US
judge, head FBI and CIA, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1926 Mar 6, Alan Greenspan,
economist, presidential advisor, was born.
(SSFC, 3/6/05, p.E1)
1927 Mar 6, Leroy Gordon Cooper
Jr. (d.2004), USAF astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5), was born in Shawnee, Okla.
(SFC, 10/5/04, p.B7)
1927 Mar 6, Norman Treigle,
bass-baritone (Mefistofele), was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1928 Mar 6, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, Columbian-born novelist and Nobel Prize winner (1982), was
born. In 2009 Gerald martin authored “Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez)(SSFC,
6/7/09, Books p.J1)
1928 Mar 6, A Communist attack on
Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fleeing to Swatow.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1930 Mar 6, Clarence Birdseye of
Brooklyn developed a method for quick freezing food.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1932 Mar 6, John Philip Sousa
(77), US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1933 Mar 6, A nationwide bank
holiday declared by President Roosevelt went into effect.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1933 Mar 6, Anton J. Cermak
(b.1873), Czech-born 35th mayor of Chicago, died in Miami following the
Feb 15th assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara, who was trying to
shoot FDR. Zangara was executed in the electric chair on March 21,
1933. Cermak became the 2nd US mayor to die in a political killing.
(SFC, 11/28/03,
p.E2)(www.cermak.com/mayor/index3.html)
1933 Mar 6, Poland occupied free
city Danzig (Gdansk).
(MC, 3/6/02)
1935 Mar 6, Retired Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in Washington.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1936 Mar 6, Marion S. Barry,
(Mayor-D-Wash DC), was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1937 Mar 6, Jose Pena Gomez
(d.1998 at 61), advocate for the poor and later mayor of Santo Domingo,
was born in Valverde, Dominican Republic, to Haitian immigrants.
According to Jose Pena Gomez, a Dominican massacre of Haitians forced
his parents to flee back to Haiti. Jose was adopted by a Dominican
family.
(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)
1937 Mar 6, Valentina
Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian astronaut, was born. In 1963 she became
the first women to orbit the Earth on Vostok 6.
(HN, 3/6/99)(MC, 3/6/02)
1939 Mar 6, Jose Miaja took over
the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek "peace
with honor."
(HN, 3/6/98)
1941 Mar 6, John Gutzon de la
Mothe Borglum (73), sculptor (Mount Rushmore), died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1943 Mar 6, British RAF fliers
bombed Essen and the Krupp arms works in the Ruhr, Germany.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1943 Mar 6, Battle at Medenine,
North-Africa: Rommel's assault attack.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1944 Mar 6, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa,
operatic soprano (Don Giovanni), was born in Gisborne, NZ.
(HN, 3/6/01)(MC, 3/6/02)
1944 Mar 6, US heavy bombers hit
Berlin during World War II.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1945 Mar 6, Rob Reiner, actor,
director (All in the Family, Stand By Me), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, Federico Garcia
Lorca's "La Casa," premiered in Buenos Aires.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, Cologne, Germany, fell
to General Hodges' First Army.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1945 Mar 6, Erich Honnecker and
Erich Hanke fled Nazis.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1945 Mar 6, In Holland SS General
Hans Albin Rauter, was ambushed, and his driver and orderly were
killed. Rauter was seriously wounded. SS Brigadefuhrer Dr. Eberhardt
Schongarth immediately ordered reprisals and a total of 263 people were
shot. A Special Court of Justice in the Hague sentenced Rauter to death
and he was executed March 25, 1949. Schongarth was tried by a British
Military Court, found guilty on another war crime charge, sentenced to
death and was hanged in 1946.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres.html
(WW2D, p.610)
1946 Mar 6, France recognized
Vietnam statehood within the Indo-Chinese federation.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1947 Mar 6, Winston Churchill
opposed the withdrawal of troops from India.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1947 Mar 6, Ludwig Weber (55),
composer, died.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1948 Mar 6, During talks in
Berlin, the Western powers agreed to internationalize the Ruhr region.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1949 Mar 6, Robert Storm Petersen
(b.1882), Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and
humorist, died. He is known almost exclusively by his pen name Storm P.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Storm_Petersen)
1950 Mar 6, Silly Putty was
invented. [see Mar 2]
(MC, 3/6/02)
1953 Mar 6, Upon Josef Stalin's
death, Georgi Malenkov was named Soviet premier. [see Mar 6]
(HN, 3/6/98)
1955 Mar 6, A US Atomic Energy
Spokesman said a cloud from the atomic blast at Nevada’s Yucca Flat
passed over the Central California coastline.
(SFC, 3/4/05, p.F3)
1957 Mar 6, The former British
African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent
state of Ghana. Ghana, led by Kwame Nkrumah, gained independence from
Britain. US VP Nixon and Martin Luther King attended the independence
ceremony.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.B1)(SFEM, 2/2/97, p.15)(SSFC,
2/11/07, p.C1)
1958 Mar 6, Form letters from
Pres. Eisenhower to 6 civilians appointees provided for them to take
office in the event of a national emergency. The group met in 1960 with
the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to discuss staffing for
their agencies. Pres. Kennedy relieved the group of its duties in 1961.
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.A2)
1960 Mar 6, The Swiss granted
women the right to vote in municipal elections.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1961 Mar 6, 1st London minicabs
were introduced.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1962 Mar 6, US promised Thailand
assistance against "communist" aggression.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1963 Mar 6, Jimmy Lee Smith and
Gregory Powell abducted 2 Los Angeles police officers from a Hollywood
street, drove them to an onion field in Bakersfield and shot officer
Ian Campbell to death. Officer Karl Hettinger managed to escape. Smith
served 19 years for his role in the case before he was paroled. In 1973
Joseph Wambaugh authored “The Onion Field,” a novel based on the
murder. The novel was turned into a film in 1979.
(SFC, 6/28/05, p.B8)
1965 Mar 6, "How to Succeed in
Business" closed at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1965 Mar 6, The U.S. announced
that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1967 Mar 6, US Pres. Lyndon B.
Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
(www.historynet.com/tdih0306.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Elijah Muhammad,
Nation of Islam sect leader, gave a radio address in which he declared
the name Cassius Clay lacked a "divine meaning." He gave Clay the
Muslim name "Muhammad Ali." Muhammad meant one worthy of praise, and
Ali was the name of a cousin of the prophets.
(http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014063.html)
1967 Mar 6, Svetlana Alliluyeva,
the daughter of Josef Stalin, appeared at the US Embassy in India and
announced her intention to defect to the West. She arrived at New York
in April and held a press conference during which she denounced her
father's regime.
(AP,
3/6/07)(www.economicexpert.com/a/Svetlana:Alliluyeva.htm)
1967 Mar 6, Nelson Eddy (b.1901),
US baritone and actor, died. “Rose Marie” (1936) is probably his
most-remembered film. Eddy sang "Song of the Mounties" and "Indian Love
Call" by Rudolf Friml. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast
Mountie became a popular icon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy)
1967 Mar 6, Zoltan Kodaly
(b.1882), Hungarian composer, died. His major works, notably the comic
opera Hary Janos, the Psalmus hungaricus, the Peacock Variations for
orchestra and the Dances of Marosszek and Galanta drew on Magyar folk
music.
(www.malaspina.org/kodalyz.htm)
1969 Mar 6, Black Panther Anthony
Garnet Bryant, aka Tony Bryant (d.1999 at 60), hijacked a National
Airlines plane enroute from NY to Miami and directed it to Cuba. He was
arrested in Cuba and spent a year and a half in jail and was pardoned
in 1980. His 1984 book "Hijack" described his experience in Cuban
prisons.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)(http://tinyurl.com/aopyo)
1970 Mar 6, In NYC’s Greenwich
Village a townhouse at 18 West 11th St. exploded. SDS Weathermen
members Diana Oughton, Ted Gold and Terry Robbins were killed at
the site where a bomb was being manufactured. Other members went
underground and became known as the Weather Underground. The 1988 film
"Running on Empty" was based on Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. In
2001 Bill Ayers, former Weatherman, authored "Fugitive Days, A Memoir."
(SSFC, 9/9/01, DB p.67)(SFC, 7/21/03,
p.D2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Oughton)
1970 Mar 6, The Beatles released
"Let it Be" in UK.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(song))
1972 Mar 6, Shaquille O'Neal, NBA
center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96), was born in Newark, NJ.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaquille_O'Neal)
1972 Mar 6, Jack Nicklaus, passed
Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner. He captured the Doral
Eastern Open golf tournament to run his career earnings up to
$1,477,200.
(http://440.com/twtd/archives/mar06.html)(http://tinyurl.com/5exc6t)
1973 Mar 6, President Richard
Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
(WSJ, 11/4/96, p.C1)(HN, 3/6/98)
1973 Mar 6, Pearl Sydenstricker
Buck (b.1892), author, died. Her books included “The Good Earth”
(1931), for which she won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck)
1974 Mar 6, "Over Here" opened at
Shubert Theater in NYC for 341 performances.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1975 Mar 6, OPEC held a meeting in
Algiers attended for the first time by its members’ top leaders. Here
the Algiers Accord between Baghdad and Teheran put an end to their
border dispute and brought all Iranian help to the Kurdish rebellion to
a halt. The United States abruptly withdrew its support for the Kurds
and the rebellion collapsed. Many thousands of Kurdish fighters and
their families were forced to flee to Iran to escape the pursuing Iraqi
army.
(http://mondediplo.com/2002/10/06timeline)(SFC,
11/19/07, p.A11)
1978 Mar 6, Pres. Carter invoked
the Taft-Hartley Act for an 80-day cooling off period in a coal strike.
Miners had struck 3 months earlier after coal companies demanded wage
and benefit cuts and refused to be forced back to work. They ended the
strike after 110 days when most company demands were dropped.
(SFC, 10/4/02,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bituminous_Coal_Strike_of_1977-1978)
1978 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court
in its Oliphant decision ruled that tribes could not try non-Indian
defendants in tribal courts. It centered on the arrest of Mark
Oliphant, a non-Indian, by tribal police. He argued that the tribal
court does not have criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant_v._Suquamish_Indian_Tribe)
1978 Mar 6, Larry Flynt (b.1942),
founder of "Hustler Magazine," was shot and wounded outside a Georgia
courtroom. He was left partially paralyzed. His story was the subject
of the 1996 film "The People vs. Larry Flynt."
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB
p.41)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0283658/bio)
1980 Mar 6, Islamic militants in
Tehran said that they would turn over the American hostages to the
Revolutionary Council.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1981 Mar 6, President Reagan
announced plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
(HN, 3/6/98)
1981 Mar 6, Walter Cronkite signed
off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
(AP, 3/6/00)
1981 Mar 6, In Lubeck, Germany,
Klaus Grabowski, a child molester, was shot and killed by the mother of
a girl he had molested and strangled. Grabowski had earlier avoided a
life sentence by agreeing to castration.
(http://tinyurl.com/3dgxwq)
1982 Mar 6, Ayn Rand (b.1905),
author and founder of the Objectivist philosophy, died in NY. Her
novels included "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." In 1987
Barbara Branden wrote the biography titled "The Passion of Ayn Rand."
In 1999 Nathaniel Branden published "My Years With Ayn Rand," an
account of his 18-year relationship with Rand. In 1999 the US Postal
Service issued a 33 cent stamp in her honor. In 2009 Anne Heller
authored “Ayn Rand and the World She Made,” and Jennifer Burns authored
“Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.”
(http://tinyurl.com/2nl7hk)(http://tinyurl.com/3a34t9)(SFEC, 8/18/96,
PM p. 2)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D8)(Econ, 10/24/09, p.95)
1983 Mar 6, "On Your Toes" opened
at Virginia Theater in NYC for 505 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4208)
1983 Mar 6, Country Music
Television (CMT) began showing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Music_Television)
1983 Mar 6, In a case that drew
much notoriety, a woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being
gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern; four men were later
convicted.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1983 Mar 6, Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU
won West German parliament elections.
(www.germanculture.com.ua/march/march6.htm)
1984 Mar 6, Martin Niemoller (92),
German U-boat captain, anti-Nazi minister, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller)
1985 Mar 6, Yul Brynner appeared
in his 4,500th performance of "King & I."
(www.weekender.co.jp/new/040305/this-month-history.html)
1985 Mar 6, In Mexico authorities
found the body of kidnapped US drug agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and
a Mexican pilot at a ranch east of Guadalajara.
(AP, 3/6/05)
1986 Mar 6, Ken Ludwig's "Lend me
a Tenor," premiered in London.
(www.thisistheatre.com/shows/gielgud123.html)
1986 Mar 6, USSR's Vega 1 flew by
Halley's Comet at 8,890 km.
(www.iki.rssi.ru/ssp/vega.html)
1986 Mar 6, Georgia O'Keefe (98),
US painter (Flowers), died in Santa Fe, NM.
(SSFC, 6/22/03,
p.C8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe)
1987 Mar 6, The British ferry
Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the Channel off the coast of
Belgium after water rushed through the open bow doors. 189 people died
when the ferry capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
(HN, 3/6/98)(AP, 3/6/98)
1988 Mar 6, The board of trustees
at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., a liberal arts college for
the deaf, selected Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, to be school
president. Outraged students shut down the campus, forcing the
selection of a deaf president, I. King Jordan, instead.
(AP, 3/6/08)
1988 Mar 6, British SAS officers
killed 3 IRA suspects in Gibraltar.
(http://tinyurl.com/2xbne)
1989 Mar 6, With nearly 90 percent
of its pilots honoring the picket lines of striking machinists, Eastern
Airlines shut down operations on all but three routes.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1989 Mar 6, Harry Andrews
(b.1911), English actor, died in Sussex, England. His films included
“Helen of Troy” (1956) and “Equus” (1977).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0028674/)
1990 Mar 6, The Soviet parliament
overwhelmingly approved legislation allowing people to own factories
and hire workers for the first time in nearly seven decades.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1991 Mar 6, Following Iraq’s
capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told a
cheering joint session of Congress that “aggression is defeated. The
war is over.”
(AP, 3/6/01)
1992 Mar 6, Personal computer
users braced for a virus known as “Michelangelo,” set to trigger on
March 6, but only scattered cases of lost files were reported. The
Michelangelo computer virus threatened computer systems around the
world. It was designed to lodge itself into a corner of the system and
infect any floppies put into the system, and to eventually mangle the
hard drive.
(Sp., 5/96, p.68)(AP, 3/6/02)
1993 Mar 6, As a standoff at the
Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended its first week,
authorities appealed publicly to David Koresh and his followers to give
themselves up.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1994 Mar 6, Two top Clinton
administration officials, Vice President Al Gore and White House
adviser George Stephanopoulos, appeared on the Sunday TV talk shows to
blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1994 Mar 6, In Arizona a 2nd
7-member crew entered the Biosphere 2. Their mission was cut short
under management problems and reorganization.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A3)
1994 Mar 6, Melina Mercouri
(b.1920), Greek born actress turned politician, died of lung cancer in
New York City.
(AP, 3/6/99)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0580479/)
1995 Mar 6, The
Republican-controlled House took up business-backed legislation to
alter the civil legal system over White House objections that some of
the proposals were too extreme. The House passed the measure the
following day.
(AP, 3/6/00)
1996 Mar 6, A federal appeals
court struck down Washington state’s ban on doctor-assisted suicide.
(AP, 3/6/01)
1996 Mar 6, Lamar Alexander and
Dick Lugar announced they were dropping out of the race for the
Republican presidential nomination.
(AP, 3/6/01)
1996 Mar 6, Reports said that at
least 10,000 Chechens have fled to this neighboring republic [Dagestan]
of the Russian Union.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-1)
1997 Mar 6, The first ever Webby
Awards ceremony was held in SF at Bimbo’s 365 Club in North Beach.
(SFC, 3/7/96, p.A1)
1997 Mar 6, A gunman stole "Tete
de Femme," a million-dollar Picasso portrait, from a London gallery. A
week later, the painting was recovered and two suspects arrested.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, A new “on the spot”
litmus test for the toxins of the E. coli bacteria was announced.
(WSJ, 3/6/97, p.A1)
1997 Mar 6, In Angola an armed
group killed 30 people at a Roman Catholic mission in southern Angola
and held 6 missionaries hostage.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A13)
1997 Mar 6, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, China introduced new
laws to bolster its campaigns against dissent, ethnic separatism and
subversive Western ideals.
(AP, 3/6/98)
1997 Mar 6, Dr. Cheddi Jagan (78),
president of Guyana, died.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A24)
1997 Mar 6, In Jamaica former
Prime Minister Michael Manley (b.Dec 10, 1924) died.
(SFC, 3/8/96, p.A21)
1997 Mar 6, In Nepal the 17-month
coalition of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was defeated and Deuba
resigned. King Birendra asked Deuba’s centrist Nepali Congress Party to
continue until the formation of a new council of ministers.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A17)
1997 Mar 6, In Sri Lanka Tamil
Tiger rebels overran the army base at Vavunativu and left more than 200
dead.
(SFC, 3/7/97, p.A24)
1997 Mar 6, In Turkey Prime
Minister Erbakan signed on to the list of 18 measures submitted by the
military to curb ultra-religious schools, publications and
organizations.
(WSJ, 3/7/97, p.A10)
1998 Mar 6, It was reported that
the conservative Tax Foundation estimated that the state of Mississippi
received $1.64 for a $1.00 it sent to Washington.
(WSJ, 3/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 6, The Army honored three
Americans who risked their lives and turned their weapons on fellow
soldiers to stop the slaughter of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in
1968.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1998 Mar 6, Matthew Beck (35), a
Connecticut state lottery accountant, shot to death three supervisors
and the lottery chief before killing himself.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A3)(AP, 3/6/99)
1998 Mar 6, It was reported that
Panama hired a Canadian Indian tribe, the Tsuu T’ina, to clean out
unexploded bombs and shells from an area of Empire Range, which US
military forces abandoned.
(SFC, 3/6/98, p.A12)
1998 Mar 6, The IMF announced that
it would delay the release of $3 billion in aid to Indonesia because
basic requirements were not yet met.
(SFC, 3/9/98, p.A11)
1998 Mar 6, Francesca Trombino,
lawyer, was bludgeoned to death in Pordenone. She was representing a US
Marine in the Feb 3 cable-car disaster. She was also representing the
wife of the captured suspect in a divorce case.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A7)
1998 Mar 6, Police in Kosovo
reported that they killed Adem Jashari, a leader in the Kosovo
Liberation Army, in Donji Prekaz in the Drenica region. 45 Albanians
and 6 Serb police were reported dead. Of the 46 bodies 11 were women
and 9 children. Six of the men were elderly.
(SFC, 3/7/98, p.A6)(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A8)
1999 Mar 6, The emir of Bahrain,
Sheik Issa bin Salman Al Khalifa (65), a key Western ally who had ruled
for nearly four decades, died shortly after a meeting with Defense
Secretary William Cohen. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Crown
Prince Hamed ibn Issa Khalifa (49). King Hamed al-Khalifa soon ended a
25-year-long state of emergency.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.D8)(AP, 3/6/00)(WSJ, 10/25/01,
p.A1)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.46)
1999 Mar 6, From Brazil it was
reported that heavy flooding had hit Sao Paulo. 27 people were killed
and 10,000 left homeless.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
1999 Mar 6, Ta Mok (72), aka "the
butcher," the one-legged last senior leader of the Khmer Rouge, was
arrested.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A17)(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 6, From El Salvador it
was reported that extermination squads were killing gang members at the
rate of 1-2 a week.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 6, Some 40 Haitians were
apparently drowned when 2 boats loaded with refugees sank. There were 3
survivors.
(SFC, 3/8/99, p.A4)
1999 Mar 6, From Kiribati it was
reported that state of emergency had been declared after a prolonged
drought nearly exhausted the underground fresh water supply of the
81,000 inhabitants.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A8)
2000 Mar 6, Eric Clapton was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time; among
the newest honorees were James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Earth, Wind and
Fire.
(AP, 3/6/01)
2000 Mar 6, Three white New York
City officers were convicted of a cover-up in a brutal police station
attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
(AP, 3/6/01)
2000 Mar 6, Gasoline prices in
California reached an average $1.63 per gallon.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, California voters
passed Prop. 22, the gay marriage ban and Prop. 1A, an approval of
Indian gaming rights. Prop. 1A enabled tribes to negotiate compacts
with the state to operate casinos with slot machines and house banking.
(SFC, 3/9/00, p.A1)(SSFC, 6/1/03, p.D6)
2000 Mar 6, MGM Grand Inc. led by
Kirk Kerkorian acquired Mirage Resorts, founded by Stephen A.
Wynn, for $4.4 billion in cash.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, In Chechnya some 30
rebels held positions at Komsomolskoye's mosque under Russian shelling.
50 Russian troops were reported killed in the last 2 days.
(SFC, 3/7/00, p.A14)
2000 Mar 6, China introduced a
$111.1 billion budget that cut its deficit and added funds for military
spending.
(WSJ, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, The Stock Exchange of
Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited together with
Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited merged under a single
exchange HKEX. In June Hong Kong sold shares in its combined stock
exchange and clearing house to the public. In 2007 HKEX bought back a
stake of almost 6%.
(Econ, 9/15/07,
p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Exchanges_and_Clearing)
2000 Mar 6, Serbia sealed its
border with Montenegro as relations worsened.
(WSJ, 3/7/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 6, In Sierra Leone some
150 former rebel fighters were reported killed after a clandestine
diamond mine they were working collapsed.
(SFC, 3/8/00, p.C4)
2000 Mar 6, In Uganda an
overloaded boat sank on Lake Victoria and at least 45 people drowned.
(WSJ, 3/9/00, p.A1)
2001 Mar 6, Bill Mazeroski was
elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Negro League
player Hilton Smith.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, Calling it the “most
accurate census in history,” the Bush administration refused to adjust
the 2000 head count.
(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The US Senate voted to
repeal rules issued 4 months ago by former Pres. Clinton that were
intended to reduce workplace injuries. The House followed suit the next
day.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A3)
2001 Mar 6, US District Judge
Marilyn Patel ordered Napster to block access to its files of Millions
of downloadable songs protected by copyrights.
(SFC, 12/30/01, p.D3)
2001 Mar 6, Two American women
died when their twin-engine plane crashed after take-off from Iceland.
They were on their way to Britain for a long-distance air race.
(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A16)
2001 Mar 6, In Argentina Federal
Judge Gabriel Cavallo struck down amnesty laws that protected hundreds
of soldiers accused of torture, murder and kidnapping during the
dictatorship of 1976-1983.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A9)
2001 Mar 6, It was reported that
Chinese psychiatrists have decided to stop classifying homosexuality as
a mental illness.
(SFC, 3/6/01, p.A11)
2001 Mar 6, In China an explosion
at an elementary school in Jiangxi province left 37 students and 4
teachers dead. 42 people, mostly students, were killed in a schoolhouse
explosion in southern China; parents said the students had been forced
to make fireworks by school officials. Teachers, to enhance their
meager salaries, had forced students to make firecrackers during their
lunch breaks. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji said the blast was caused by a
“deranged suicide bomber.”
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/01, p.A1)(SFC, 3/9/01,
p.A14)(AP, 3/5/02)
2001 Mar 6, The EU ordered all
livestock markets closed for 2 weeks to contain foot-and-mouth disease.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Kenya the 1st
experimental AIDS vaccine, specifically designed for Africa, was
administered.
(SFC, 3/7/01, p.A10)
2001 Mar 6, In Nigeria 30 girls
died from a fire at the Gindiri Girls School in Jos. They were
reportedly locked in for the night so as not to mix with boys.
(WSJ, 3/8/01, p.A1)
2001 Mar 6, In Rwanda local
elections were held for the 1st time since the 1994 mass slaughter of
Tutsis.
(WSJ, 3/7/01, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Independent Counsel
Robert Ray issued his final report in which he wrote that former
President Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been
convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica
Lewinsky.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2002 Mar 6, Federal regulators
approved the proposed $22 billion merger of Hewlett-Packard Co. and
Compaq Computer Corp.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2002 Mar 6, US commanders in
Afghanistan committed an additional 300 troops to the battle zone in
the Shah-I-Kot mountains. Taliban and al-Qaeda forces were reported to
have swollen by as many as 500 fighters. US jets killed 14 people in
the area including women and children.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/13/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a
3-year study of heavy marijuana users showed that long-term pot smoking
impaired brain function.
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that a
diet rich in tomato products can lower the risk of prostate cancer
(Journal of National Cancer Institute).
(SFC, 3/6/02, p.A2)(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Astronauts
successfully replaced a power-control unit on the Hubble space
telescope.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, In Kabul, Afghanistan,
3 Danish and 2 German peacekeeping soldiers were killed while defusing
a soviet era missile.
(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, China announced a
17.6% increase in defense spending.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 6, It was reported that
new regulations (Kuschelregel, the cuddle rule) required German pig
farmers to spend at least 20 seconds each day looking at each pig.
(WSJ, 3/6/02, p.A1)
2002 Mar 6, Israeli forces struck
Palestinian targets by land and sea. 13 Palestinians and 2 Israelis
were left dead.
(SFC, 3/7/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 3/7/02, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, President Bush
held a new conference and warned that he was prepared to go to war soon
in Iraq with or without UN backing.
(AP, 3/7/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, The United States
ratified a treaty on cutting active U.S. and Russian long-range nuclear
warheads by two-thirds.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2003 Mar 6, Democrats blocked
President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals
court.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2003 Mar 6, An Air Algerie
Boeing 737 jet crashed killing 102 passengers and crew in the southern
Algerian province of Tamanrasset. At least 1 person survived.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A14)
2003 Mar 6, Britain offered
to compromise on a US-backed resolution by giving Saddam Hussein a
short deadline to prove he has eliminated all banned weapons or face an
attack.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, The Chinese
government committed itself to helping its poorest citizens, unveiling
a new budget aimed at helping the countryside and maintaining growth.
Defense was budgeted a 9.3% rise, the lowest in 14 years, and plans
were made to abolish the agency in charge of five-year plans.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/6/03, p.A14)(WSJ, 3/6/03, p.A1)
2003 Mar 6, The Congolese
government and rebels have agreed in Pretoria to meld their armed
forces into a new national army in a bid to end a 4 ½-year civil
war and reunify the vast central African nation.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 6, Pres. Fidel
Castro was elected a sixth term and he wasted no time in criticizing
the US, warning that Cuba doesn't need its foreign office.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2003 Mar 6, Zdenek Adamec
(19) set himself on fire in downtown Prague on to protest the Czech
political situation and what he called the domination of the wealthy in
the world.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, Israeli troops
hunting Islamic militants after a deadly suicide bombing stormed the
Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza in a raid that left 11 Palestinians dead
and 110 wounded.
(AP, 3/6/03)
2003 Mar 6, Italian police
raided a house in Palermo and captured Salvatore Rinella (49), a
top Mafia boss.
(AP, 3/7/03)
2004 Mar 6, President Bush backed
off on plans to require frequent Mexican travelers to the United States
to be fingerprinted and photographed before crossing the border.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2004 Mar 6, A water taxi carrying
about 25 passengers capsized in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, killing one
person. Three others were missing and presumed dead. Navy reservists
rescued 21 people.
(AP, 3/6/04)(SFC, 3/08/04, p.A3)
2004 Mar 6, China handed its
enormous military a double-digit spending increase in a show of
support. According to China's 2004 budget, military spending for the
PLA will rise 11.6 percent this year, an increase of $2.6 billion.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Thousands of women
marched through Paris to press for equal rights for women and show
support for a law to ban Islamic head scarves in public schools.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, It was reported that 4
compromising videos have been released showing Mexican political party
leaders and public servants accepting briefcases full of cash, gambling
at the high rollers' table in Las Vegas and offering to procure
business contracts for millions of dollars.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Palestinian gunmen and
car bombers attacked a major crossing point between the Gaza Strip and
Israel. At least four attackers and two Palestinian policemen were
killed, and no Israeli soldiers were hurt.
(AP, 3/6/04)
2004 Mar 6, Hundreds of thousands
of Venezuelans marched through Caracas to protest the rejection of a
petition aimed at recalling President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 3/7/04)
2005 Mar 6, Hans Bethe (b.1906),
German-born peace worker and Nobel Prize winning physicist (1967), died
in Ithaca, NY.
(SFC, 3/8/05, p.B5)(Econ, 3/19/05, p.90)
2005 Mar 6, Actress Teresa Wright
died in New Haven, Conn., at age 86.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2005 Mar 6, In Bolivia President
Carlos Mesa said he would submit his resignation to Congress after 17
months in office, warning that growing protests against Bolivia's oil
and gas laws could soon block the country's highways and isolate its
main cities.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, China convened its
National People’s Congress.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 6, Shanghai became the
1st Chinese city to levy a capital gains tax on the sale of private
property held for less than a year.
(Econ, 3/26/05, p.73)
2005 Mar 6, Israeli investigators
said police had arrested 22 employees of a Tel Aviv bank branch on
suspicion they helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars in one of
the largest such rings in the country's history.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Giuliana Sgrena, the
Italian journalist wounded by American troops in Iraq after her release
by insurgents, rejected the U.S. military's account of the shooting and
declined to rule out the possibility she was deliberately targeted. The
White House called the shooting a "horrific accident" and restated its
promise to investigate fully.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Moldova held national
elections. Nine special stations were opened near the border with
Trans-Dniester so the separatist region's 700,000 residents can vote.
Trans-Dniester authorities have refused to allow any polling stations
on their territory. The governing pro-Western Communists won a
parliamentary majority, but fell short of taking enough seats to
re-elect President Vladimir Voronin.
(AP, 3/6/05)(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, In Norway 3 works by
Edvard Munch were stolen from a hotel, the second theft of the renowned
Norwegian's art in less than seven months.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf, ending years of chilly relations with Uzbekistan,
promised to catch and extradite any Uzbek-born terrorist hiding in his
country.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, Palestinian militants
shot and wounded two Israeli border policemen in an attack on a
military post near a West Bank shrine.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2005 Mar 6, More than 15,000
protesters marched in Taiwan, denouncing China's planned anti-secession
law and pledging to fight what they claim is Beijing's attempt to force
this self-ruled, democratic island to unify with the mainland.
(AP, 3/6/05)
2005 Mar 6, In Turkey riot police
kicked and beat women and young people who had gathered for an
unauthorized demonstration in Istanbul marking International Women's
Day.
(AP, 3/7/05)
2006 Mar 6, The US Supreme Court
ruled unanimously that colleges that accept federal money must allow
military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the
Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Gov. Mike Rounds of
South Dakota signed a sweeping state abortion ban. It was an
intentional provocation to set up a legal challenge to the 1973 Supreme
Court Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal. Abortion-rights
groups were able to get enough signatures to put the measure to a vote,
and the ban was rejected in the November election.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A8)(AP, 3/6/07)
2006 Mar 6, A San Francisco judge
ordered the Univ. of California to pay over $33.8 million to some
40,000 students, who claimed their fees had been improperly raised.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, General Motors Corp.
said it will sell a 17.4% stake in Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. for $2
billion, scaling down its share in an effort to gain much-needed cash.
GM and Suzuki said the partnership between the automakers will continue.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, US scientists issued a
forecast that the next sunspot cycle would start in late 2007 or 2008
and peak in 2012. Solar storms in the 11-year cycle could disrupt power
and communications around the world.
(SFC, 3/7/06, p.A5)
2006 Mar 6, Dana Reeve (44),
singer, actress and non-smoker, died of lung cancer. She won worldwide
admiration for her devotion to her "Superman" husband, Christopher
Reeve (d.2004), through his decade of near-total paralysis.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 6, Baseball Hall of Famer
Kirby Puckett died in Phoenix at age 45.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2006 Mar 6-2006 Mar 7, Armenian
and Azerbaijani forces exchanged heavy gunfire and mortars at several
points along their border in the most serious fighting in months.
(AP, 3/7/06)
2006 Mar 6, PM John Howard in New
Delhi said Australia will consider selling uranium to India if it is
convinced about New Delhi's commitment to follow global nuclear
safeguards for its civilian atomic reactors.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Austrian authorities
said several cats have tested positive for the deadly strain of bird
flu in their first reported case of the disease spreading to an animal
other than a bird.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Bangladesh's second
top Islamist militant was captured after a gunbattle with security
forces. Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, chief of the outlawed Jagrata
Muslim Janata Bangladesh group (JMB), was arrested along with his wife
at his hideout with two of his associates in the northern district of
Mymensingh.
(Reuters, 3/6/06)(Econ, 3/25/06, p.45)
2006 Mar 6, President Evo Morales
accused the US government of trying to intimidate Bolivia by announcing
it would cut some aid because of a disagreement over the appointment of
a military commander.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, A Chinese lawmaker
called for police to tape interrogations in possible death penalty
cases following widespread complaints of confessions being forced by
torture.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, France's highest
administrative body ruled that Sikhs must remove their turbans for
driver's license photos, calling it a question of public security and
not a restriction on freedom of religion.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, German drugmaker Bayer
AG said its fourth-quarter profit fell 33% after it set aside 275
million euros ($330.5 million) to settle claims that it colluded on
prices of rubber and plastic in the US.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Iraq explosions
killed at least 10 people and wounded 36 in Baghdad and Baqouba. In
Iraq 2 men were burned to death in their car after a shootout with
Iraqi police in Basra. Security officials said the victims were British
citizens. A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded near a
market north of Baghdad, killing at least five people. A Sunni general
in charge of Baghdad defenses was killed by snipers. Attacks across
Iraq killed at least 25 people.
(AP, 3/6/06)(WSJ, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, Israeli aircraft blew
up a truck carrying Islamic Jihad militants, killing two of them and
three bystanders, including two children. The Israeli military
confirmed it attacked the truck, saying the target was one of the dead
men, Islamic Jihad operative Moner Sukar, who had carried out rocket
attacks against Israel.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Zeev Rosenstein (51),
a suspected Israeli mob boss, was extradited to the US. Rosenstein was
suspected in the distribution of more than 1 million Ecstasy pills in
the US, mostly in NY and Miami.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Mexico Diego Santoy
(21) was captured at a police roadblock in the southern state of
Oaxaca, four days after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Erika
Pena, 18, strangled her 3-year-old sister and stabbed to death her
7-year-old brother.
(AP, 3/8/06)
2006 Mar 6, Nigeria unveiled
details of spending plans in its record 14.8-billion-dollar
(12.3-billion-euro) federal budget and made ambitious predictions for
strong economic growth.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Pakistani authorities
clamped a curfew on a Miran Shah and negotiated with tribesmen to try
to end three days of clashes that have left more than 120 pro-Taliban
rebels dead. Thousands of residents joined an exodus out of the town.
(AFP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In comments aimed at
Afghanistan's leader, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said that the
"bad-mouthing" of his country must stop and that Pakistani officials
have caught terrorists "and will continue to do so."
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Hamas lawmakers in
Palestine voted to revoke decisions made by the Fatah-led parliament at
its last meeting in February, including more power for Pres. Abbas.
(WSJ, 3/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 6, President Vladimir
Putin signed a measure into law that allows the Russian military to
shoot down hijacked planes, the latest in a series of bills passed
following terrorist attacks.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Russia's environmental
agency gave final approval to a much-criticized plan to build a
2,550-mile oil pipeline past Lake Baikal, the world's largest
freshwater lake.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, In Seoul
representatives of South Korea and the US agreed to begin negotiations
in June on establishing a free trade agreement. A block away movie
actors, directors and farmers staged protests against any such deal.
(AFP, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Leaders from the main
Darfur rebel group renounced Abdel Wahed Mohamed el-Nur, their party
president, saying he was acting unilaterally and endangering fragile
peace talks.
(Reuters, 3/6/06)
2006 Mar 6, Sandjar Umarov,
chairman of the opposition Sunshine Uzbekistan group, was sentenced to
more than 10 years in prison on charges of organizing a criminal group,
tax evasion and money laundering. Umarov pleaded innocent to all
charges.
(AP, 3/6/06)
2007 Mar 6, Democratic lawmakers
accused the Bush administration of carrying out a political purge by
firing at least 8 US attorneys.
(SFC, 3/7/07, p.A3)
2007 Mar 6, Former US White House
aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing an
investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Sentencing
was scheduled for June.
(AP, 3/7/07)(Econ, 3/10/07, p.27)
2007 Mar 6, More than 30 Vermont
towns passed resolutions seeking to impeach President Bush, while at
least 16 towns in the tiny New England state called on Washington to
withdraw US troops from Iraq.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, US Army medic Spc.
Agustin Aguayo, who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition
to the war, was convicted in Germany of desertion at his court martial.
He was sentenced to eight months in prison, far short of the maximum
seven-year sentence.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, It was reported that
Myers Development Co. of SF planned to start construction next month on
its $428 million Mandalay Terrace project on the west side of San Bruno
Mountain in South San Francisco. It included 12 and 21-story office
towers.
(SFC, 3/6/07, p.B6)
2007 Mar 6, Researchers reported
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that pollution
from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific,
according to new research. Satellite measurements have shown an
increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and
India in recent decades.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Ernest Gallo (97), who
parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the
world's largest winemaking empire, died at his home in Modesto, Ca.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In southern
Afghanistan a remote-control bomb targeting a police vehicle on killed
one policeman and wounded another in the Murja district of Helmand
province. Afghan soldiers caught Mullah Mahmood, a senior Taliban
commander at a checkpoint in Kandahar province. He was wearing a burqa,
the all-encompassing Islamic veil worn by women. One British soldier
and four Taliban fighters were killed. A Canadian soldier died from a
gunshot wound to the chest. Enemy action was ruled out as the cause.
The Taliban claimed that it had kidnapped 4 journalists, including a
Briton and an Italian.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AP, 3/7/07)(WSJ, 3/7/07, p.A1)
2007 Mar 6, A fire raged through a
congested slum in southeastern Bangladesh, killing at least 21 people,
including 10 children.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Central African
Republic forces (FACA) peacefully took back control of the airfield at
Birao that they had abandoned following rebel attacks at the weekend.
(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, The government of Chad
refused to allow the UN to send an advance mission to prepare for the
possible deployment of UN peacekeepers, a setback to plans to help
thousands of civilians caught in the spillover of the Darfur conflict
in neighboring Sudan.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, An explosion at a coal
mine in south China killed at least 15 workers.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, Fortunat Lumu, the
head of Congo's atomic energy commission, was arrested along with an
aide on suspicion of illegally selling uranium.
(AP, 3/8/07)
2007 Mar 6, In eastern Ethiopia 2
US troops were reported killed and another injured in a single-vehicle
traffic accident.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, France and the United
Arab Emirates signed an agreement to open a branch of the Louvre museum
in Abu Dhabi, despite criticism that the French government is peddling
the country's artistic treasures.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Jean Baudrillard
(b.1929), French philosopher and social theorist, died. He was best
known for his writings on gender relations and consumerism.
(Econ, 3/17/07,
p.93)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard)
2007 Mar 6, Volkswagen's new chief
executive Martin Winterkorn has been nominated as chairman of Swedish
truck maker Scania in a new phase in the plans for a three-way tie-up
with German group MAN. VW is Scania's biggest shareholder with a voting
stake of 34 percent and traditionally holds the chair of the Swedish
truck maker's supervisory board.
(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Guatemala's president
ordered the national police to clean out corrupt officers and upgrade
training after six members of the force were accused of killing three
Central American Parliament members.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In western India
wildlife officials said poachers had killed three highly endangered
Asiatic lions in their only remaining sanctuary, removing their claws
and bones and raising fears for the future of these rare cats. Tiger
numbers in India had collapsed to around 1,800 in the wild, about half
the world’s total.
(AP, 3/6/07)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.41)
2007 Mar 6, In western Indonesia a
6.3 earthquake crumpled houses across a large swath of Sumatra Island,
killing over 70 people and injuring hundreds.
(AP, 3/7/07)(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 6, Iran said its former
deputy defense minister was missing while on a private trip to
neighboring Turkey, and its top police chief accused Western
intelligence services of possibly kidnapping the official.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Iraq 2 suicide
bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming
toward a shrine at Hillah, at least 120 people and wounding about 190.
In the south Baghdad neighborhood of Dora gunmen pumped bullets into a
minibus, killing all eight passengers inside. A car bomb nearby killed
at least 7 people.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, Italian prosecutors
cleared a physician who disconnected the respirator of a paralyzed man
who had asked to die.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Mexico gunmen
wounded Gen. Francisco Fernandez, the top security official in the Gulf
coast state of Tabasco, and killed his driver.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, Moroccan officials
arrested Saad Houssaini, an alleged member of a terrorist group that is
believed linked to the 2004 Madrid bombings and 2003 attacks in
Casablanca.
(AFP, 3/9/07)
2007 Mar 6, Dutch judges ruled
that a chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang is not a criminal
organization, rejecting prosecutors' attempts to have the group
outlawed.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In northwestern
Pakistan armed tribesmen attacked suspected Uzbek militants, triggering
a battle in which 15 people were killed.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Philippine President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed into law a package of anti-terror
measures that has drawn protests as a threat to civil liberties.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Interfax news agency
said 2 American women were hospitalized in Moscow for treatment of
thallium poisoning. The women became ill Feb. 24 and were being treated
at Moscow's Sklifosovsky clinic.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Somalia mortar
rounds slammed into Mogadishu's airport during a ceremony welcoming the
arrival of peacekeepers. At least 3 people were killed when a firefight
erupted between unidentified insurgents and Ethiopian troops near a
military base in Mogadishu.
(AP, 3/6/07)(AFP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Sudan said it will try
three Sudanese for crimes committed in Darfur, including a member of
the country's security forces who is being sought by an international
war crimes court.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Thailand's
military-installed government took over the country's only independent
television station and said it would be temporarily pulled off the air
after it failed to pay millions of dollars in unpaid license fees.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2007 Mar 6, Venezuelan authorities
arrested, Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila, a retired National Guard general,
on accusations that he plotted to overthrow President Hugo Chavez.
(AP, 3/7/07)
2007 Mar 6, In Zimbabwe at least
34 people were killed when a train collided with a minibus at rail
crossing on the outskirts of the capital Harare.
(AP, 3/6/07)
2008 Mar 6, In Nevada letters
began arriving this week to patients who received injected anesthesia
at the endoscopy center from March 2004 to mid-January were urged to
get tested for hepatitis B and C, and HIV. The Las Vegas clinic was
found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four
years.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A lawmaker said
Abkhazia, a region that broke away from Georgian government control in
the 1990s, intends to seek international recognition as an independent
nation, citing Kosovo as a precedent.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Albania a boat
carrying partygoers celebrating the birthday of 5-year-old twins sank
just after midnight in a lake near the capital, killing 16 people,
including the two children.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Britain unveiled a
timetable for the introduction of controversial biometric identity
cards, starting with non-European foreigners who will be obliged to
have them from later this year.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Britain the Public
and Commercial Services union (PCS) said that up to 700 hundred
personnel of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) had begun a
24-hour stoppage in response to poor pay conditions and below-inflation
wage increases over the past few years.
(AFP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Colombia a
guerrilla known as Rojas came to government troops with the severed
right hand of FARC rebel leader Ivan Rios (46), a laptop computer and
ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier. Rojas handed
himself over to the soldiers. The US State Department had a bounty of
$5 million for Rios' capture. A march protesting the Colombian
government and paramilitary death squads drew tens of thousands of
people and 6 organizers were killed.
(AP, 3/7/08)(AP, 3/14/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Egypt police
arrested 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in an ongoing crackdown
on Egypt's largest Islamic opposition group ahead of next month's local
election.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Greece's main power
company extended rolling blackouts as a strike by the company's workers
entered its fourth day.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Officials said
authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an
anti-rabies drive that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the region's
main city.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, In Iraq an attack
killed 68 people in a Baghdad shopping district. 120 were wounded. Many
of the victims were teens or young adults.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, A gunman infiltrated a
Jewish seminary in Jerusalem and opened fire in a library, killing 8
students and wounding dozens before an Israeli army officer nearby shot
the gunman dead. In Gaza, the Islamic militant Hamas praised the attack.
(AP, 3/6/08)(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega announced that he is breaking off relations with Colombia
because of his country's opposition to the Colombian raid on a
guerrilla base in Ecuador.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A massive power outage
struck Pakistan's largest city of Karachi and left the entire city of
more than 15 million people without electricity.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Palestinian militants
ambushed an Israeli army jeep on the border with Gaza, killing one
soldier and wounding three. Deputies of Egypt's intelligence chief Omar
Suleiman met with officials from the Islamic militant Hamas and the
smaller Islamic Jihad in the Egyptian Sinai city of el-Arish to
persuade Hamas to accept a truce that would halt rocket attacks.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Serbia's tottering
coalition government voted down a bid by nationalist PM Vojislav
Kostunica to rule out any deal with the EU until it revokes the
independence of Kosovo.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, K. Sivanesan (51), a
Sri Lankan Tamil lawmaker, was killed in a roadside bomb attack by
government security forces. At least 61 Tamil Tiger rebels and five
government troops were killed in 2 days of fresh fighting across Sri
Lanka's embattled north.
(AFP, 3/6/08)(AFP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, Journalists and a
security official said Sudanese authorities have reimposed daily
censorship of newspapers after they published reports accusing the
government of backing Chadian rebels.
(Reuters, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, Viktor Bout, a
suspected Russian arms dealer, was arrested at a five-star hotel in
downtown Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with
arms and explosives. He had been accused of flouting UN embargoes and
was wanted by Interpol.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2008 Mar 6, A Kurdish demonstrator
wounded a day earlier in clashes with police in eastern Turkey died of
his injuries.
(AP, 3/7/08)
2008 Mar 6, About 700 Turkish
school children were hospitalized for apparent food poisoning.
(AP, 3/6/08)
2009 Mar 6, The US Labor
Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate bolted to 8.1
percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting
employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The IRS said it would
not renew its expiring contracts with two private debt collection
agencies. An in-house tax collection program was cited as more
effective.
(WSJ, 3/7/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 6, The CIA destroyed a
dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects, according
to documents filed in a lawsuit over the government's treatment of
detainees. The 12 tapes were part of a larger collection of 92
videotapes of terror suspects that the CIA destroyed. The extent of the
tape destruction was disclosed through a suit filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union against the government.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 6, In California Annette
Yeomans (51) surrendered at the Vista jail and was booked for
investigation of grand theft and embezzlement. The former bookkeeper
reportedly embezzled $9.9 million, forcing her company to make layoffs
as she bought 400 pairs of shoes that she kept in a room-sized closet
decorated with a crystal chandelier and a plasma television.
Authorities alleged that Yeomans embezzled the money from 2001 to 2007
while she was chief financial officer for Quality Woodworks, Inc., a
cabinetry business in San Marcos.
(AP, 3/8/09)
2009 Mar 6, NASA's planet-hunting
telescope, Kepler, rocketed into space on a historic voyage to track
down other Earths in a faraway patch of the Milky Way galaxy.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 6, In Argentina Claudio
Lifschitz, a criminal attorney who accused former President Carlos
Menem of covering up the nation's worst terrorist attack, was kidnapped
and tortured by masked gunmen seeking information about the case.
(AP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 6, Colombia’s
anti-narcotics police seized 5.7 tons of cocaine and cocaine base in a
jungle laboratory reportedly run by the Black Eagles, the largest of a
new generation of paramilitary groups.
(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A4)
2009 Mar 6, The EU and Kenya
agreed to allow the country to prosecute suspected pirates captured by
European forces on the high seas.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, India's government
said it assisted an Indian businessman in his successful $1.8 million
bid for Mohandas Gandhi's eyeglasses and other items, despite initially
protesting the auction as a "crass commercialization" of the pacifist
leader's legacy. An Indian court had even filed an injunction in an
attempt to prevent the auction in New York.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 5, Indonesia and South
Korea agreed to cooperate more closely on a range of issues including
defense, the global financial crisis and alternative sources of energy.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The Israeli foreign
ministry said it had closed its embassy after the government of
Mauritania asked the Israeli ambassador and his staff to leave.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, Kyrgyz lawmakers voted
overwhelmingly to suspend an agreement that allows US-led coalition
forces fighting in Afghanistan to use an air base on its territory.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, Mexico published a new
law allowing the planting of genetically modified corn for experimental
reasons.
(SFC, 3/7/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 6, Morocco cut diplomatic
links with Iran after an outcry in the Sunni Muslim world over a
statement by an Iranian official questioning Sunni-ruled Bahrain's
sovereignty.
(Reuters, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, In Paraguay about 100
women disrobed in a square in downtown Asuncion to protest nuclear
weapons.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, The Sri Lankan
government appealed for tens of thousands of civilians to flee the
northern war zone and said it would open two safe passages for the
exodus. Sri Lankan soldiers assailed the last slice of land still
controlled by ethnic Tamil separatists, killing at least 32 rebels in
Mullaitivu.
(AP, 3/6/09)(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 6, A UN spokesman said
its human rights office will examine whether Sudan's decision to expel
aid groups constitutes a breach of basic human rights and possibly a
war crime. UN agencies warned that Sudan's decision to expel 13
international aid groups will leave more than a million people without
food or health care and could threaten thousands of lives.
(AP, 3/6/09)(AFP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, A senior employee of
Taiwan's presidential office was indicted on charges of providing
classified information to rival China. Wang Jen-bing was charged with
violating the national security law by leaking documents gathered
during the last three years of former President Chen Shui-bian's
eight-year tenure. Chen Pin-jen, a legislative aid, was indicted on
similar charges.
(AP, 3/6/09)
2009 Mar 6, In Zimbabwe PM Morgan
Tsvangirai was injured in a car crash that killed his wife. Tsvangirai
was flown the next day to neighboring Botswana for medical tests.
(Reuters, 3/7/09)(AFP, 3/7/09)
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