History for March 6

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Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman

• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
• 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.
• 1928 - A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.
• 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.