History for March 6 - On-This-Day.com
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806, Ed McMahon 1923, Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman
Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927, Marion Barry 1936, 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.
1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.
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