On this day in history:
March 6th:
1899- Bayer patents aspirin
1982- Controversial writer-philosopher Ayn Rand dies
1836- The Battle of the Alamo comes to an end
1974- Helen Thomas named UPI’s White House bureau chief, the first woman to hold that title for a wire agency
1981- Walter Conkite signs off as anchorman of “CBS Evening News”
1983- Helmut Kohl elected West German chancellor
1857- Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott case
1820- President Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise
1987- Ferry sinks in Belgium, 188 people drown
1776- New York demands Sandy Hook lighthouse be dismantled
1475- Michelangelo is born
1986- Georgia O’Keeffe dies
1951- The espionage trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
1945- Dutch Resistance ambushes SS officer
1902- Real Madrid founded
2001- The death spiral of Napster begins
1953- Georgy Malenkov succeeds Stalin
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