On This Day in History

March 6

Historical Events

1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.

The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk shows folk hero Davy Crockett shortly before being killed by Mexican soldiers

1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

1857 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens.

1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society.

1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) is patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer

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Famous Birthdays

Michelangelo 1475 - 1564 Casimir Pulaski 1747 - 1779

Gabriel García Márquez 1927 - 2014 Valentina Tereshkova 87th Birthday

Also George Dayton, Lou Costello, David Gilmour (78) and Shaquille O'Neal (52).

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Famous Deaths

Davy Crockett 1786 - 1836 Georgia O'Keeffe 1887 - 1986

Also Henry Pelham, Gottlieb Daimler and John Philip Sousa.

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Birdseye – the Father of Frozen Food

Indigenous Canadians showed Clarence Birdseye how they preserved fish they had caught. Intrigued, he saw the possibilities and the frozen food industry was born.

How the Frozen Food Industry was Born