History for March 6

History for March 6 - On-This-Day.com:
Cyrano De Bergerac 1619, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806, Lou Costello 1906


Ed McMahon 1923, Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927, Shaquille O'Neal 1972 - Basketball player


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.


1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.


1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.


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.