domingo, 6 de marzo de 2011

En este día..


ON THIS DAY

March 6

On March 6, 1857, in its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
On March 6, 1885, Ring Lardner, the American writer and satirist, was born. Following his death on Sept. 25, 1933, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Date

1806Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Durham, England.
1834The city of Toronto was incorporated.
1836The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
1853Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiered in Venice, Italy.
1933A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt went into effect.
1935Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died two days shy of his 94th birthday.
1944Heavy bombers staged the first American raid on Berlin during World War II.
1957The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent nation of Ghana.
1981Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
1997Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
2006Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation banning most abortions in South Dakota. (The ban was later rejected by the state's voters).
2006Baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett died at age 45.
2007Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
2008A Palestinian killed eight students at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem before he was slain.

Current Birthdays

Shaquille O’Neal, Basketball player
Cleveland Cavaliers center Shaquille O'Neal turns 39 years old today.
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Alan Greenspan, Former Federal Reserve chairman
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan turns 85 years old today.
AP Photo/Evan Agostini
1924William Webster, Former FBI and CIA director, turns 87
1927Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Author ("Love in the Time of Cholera"), turns 84
1939Christopher Bond, U.S. senator, R-Mo., turns 72
1944Mary Wilson, Singer (The Supremes), turns 67
1946David Gilmour, Rock musician (Pink Floyd), turns 65
1947Kiki Dee, Singer, turns 64
1947Rob Reiner, Actor, director ("All in the Family"), turns 64
1959Tom Arnold, Actor, turns 52
1964D.L. Hughley, Actor ("The Hughleys"), turns 47
1968Connie Britton, Actress ("Friday Night Lights"), turns 43
1968Moira Kelly, Actress, turns 43
1969Amy Pietz, Actress ("Caroline in the City"), turns 42
1984Chris Tomson, Rock musician (Vampire Weekend), turns 27

Historic Birthdays

49John II 3/6/1405 - 7/21/1454
King of Castile (1406-54)
88Michelangelo 3/6/1475 - 2/18/1564
Italian sculptor, painter and architect
36Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac 3/6/1619 - 7/28/1655
French dramatist and satirist
68Francis Atterbury 3/6/1663 - 3/4/1732
English Anglican bishop
68Henry Laurens 3/6/1724 - 12/8/1792
American President of Continental Congress (1777-78)
55Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3/6/1806 - 6/29/1861
English poet
62George duMaurier 3/6/1834 - 10/6/1896
English caricaturist ('Punch')
64Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov 3/6/1844 (O.S.) - 6/8/1908 (O.S.)
Russian composer and editor
83Oscar Straus 3/6/1870 - 1/11/1954
Austrian composer

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