History for March 6 - On-This-Day.com

History for March 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Lou Costello 1906, Ed McMahon 1923, Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman


Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez 1928 - Author ("Love in the Time of Cholera"), Marion Barry 1936


1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.


1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.


1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.


1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.


1944 - During World War II, U.S. heavy bombers began the first American raid on Berlin. Allied planes dropped 2000 tons of bombs.


1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.


1987 - The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. 189 people died.


1992 - The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.