Today in History
Listings for Friday, March 6, 2020.
Birthdays:
- 1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti
- 1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French author, romanticized by Rostand
- 1906 Lou Costello
- 1923 Ed McMahon
- 1926 Alan Greenspan
- 1930 Lorin Maazel
- 1936 Marion Barry
- 1937 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut
- 1941 Willie Stargell
- 1944 Kiri Te Kanawa
- 1945 Rob Reiner
- 1959 Tom Arnold
- 1972 Shaquille O'Neal
Events:
- 1665 "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was first published, and is still published today.
- 1836 Alamo falls. Remember it!
- 1857 Dred Scott decision rendered.
- 1986 Soviet Vega 1 probe passes within 10,000 km of Halley's comet
That's all for today.