03-06-2006, 07:29 AM
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March 6th
1475 ~ Birthday of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter.
1806 ~ Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet.
1853 ~ Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata premiered in Venice, Italy.
1857 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
1869 ~ Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1888 ~ Death of Louisa May Alcott, Novelist.
1926 ~ Birthday of Alan Greenspan, American economist.
1957 ~ The former UK colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
1982 ~ Death of Ayn Rand, Author.
1987 ~ 197 people died when a car ferry capsized outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
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