March 6
1834 - The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
1836 - The Alamo fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege; the battle claimed the lives of all the Texan defenders, nearly 200 strong, including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not U.S. citizens and could not sue for their freedom in federal court.
1912 - Oreo sandwich cookies were first introduced by the Nabisco Biscuit Co.
1930 - Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1933 - A national bank holiday was declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, aimed at calming panicked depositors.
1944 - U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.
1957 - The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form the independent nation of Ghana.
1970 - A bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village townhouse in New York by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.
1981 - Walter Cronkite, labeled "the most trusted man in America," retired as anchor from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather.
1997 - Queen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.
1998 - The Army honored three Americans who’d risked their lives and turned their weapons on fellow soldiers to stop the slaughter of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
2002 - Independent counsel Robert Ray issued his final report in which he wrote that former President Bill Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2013 - Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a critic of the Obama administration’s drone policy, launched an old-style filibuster to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director; Paul lasted nearly 13 hours before yielding the floor.
2013 - Syria’s accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone as the number of U.N.-registered refugees topped 1 million, half of them children.
2016 - Former first lady Nancy Reagan died in Los Angeles at age 94.
2018 - Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, a one-time rising star in the Democratic Party, resigned after pleading guilty to cheating the city out of thousands of dollars to carry on an affair with her bodyguard.
Birthdays
25 - Belle Hassan (reality star)
26 - Alisha Boe (actress)
26 - Kyra Green (model)
27 - Savannah Stehlin (actress)
27 - Dillon Freasier (actor)
29 - Megan Barton Hanson (model)
37 - Eli Marienthal (actor)
37 - Jake Arrieta (baseball player)
43 - Shaun Evans (actor)
50 - Trent Willmon (singer)
51 - Shaquille O'Neal (basketball player)
54 - Amy Pietz (actress)
55 - Moira Kelly (actress)
56 - Connie Britton (actress)
60 - D.L. Hughley (actor)
64 - Tom Arnold (actor)
70 - Armen Keteyian (sports correspondent)
76 - John Stossel (broadcast journalist)
76 - Kiki Dee (singer)
76 - Rob Reiner (actor/director)
76 - Anna Maria Horsford (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 6
1964 - Heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay officially changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1972 - Jack Nicklaus surpasses Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner.
1973 - Larry Hisle (Minnesota Twins) became baseball's first designated hitter. The spring-training exhibition game was against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1976 - American Dorothy Hamill wins the world figure skating championship.
1982 - NBA history was made when San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the record for most points by two teams in a game. The record was beaten on December 13, 1983 by the Pistons and the Nuggets when they played to a final score of 186-184.
1983 - The United States Football League (USFL) began its first season of competition.
1985 - Future heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson makes his professional debut with a first-round knockout of Hector Mercedes.
1997 - Mike Gartner (Phoenix Coyotes) scored his 30th goal of the season. He set a record for scoring 30 goals in a season for the 17th time in his career.
2019 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers moves past Michael Jordan into fourth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 32,293 points.
2022 - A massive brawl broke out among fans of clubs in Mexico’s top-division soccer league, leaving 14 hospitalized, two of them in critical condition.
1834 - The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
1836 - The Alamo fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege; the battle claimed the lives of all the Texan defenders, nearly 200 strong, including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not U.S. citizens and could not sue for their freedom in federal court.
1912 - Oreo sandwich cookies were first introduced by the Nabisco Biscuit Co.
1930 - Clarence Birdseye started to sell prepackaged frozen food for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1933 - A national bank holiday was declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, aimed at calming panicked depositors.
1944 - U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.
1957 - The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form the independent nation of Ghana.
1970 - A bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village townhouse in New York by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.
1981 - Walter Cronkite, labeled "the most trusted man in America," retired as anchor from the CBS Evening News and was replaced by Dan Rather.
1997 - Queen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.
1998 - The Army honored three Americans who’d risked their lives and turned their weapons on fellow soldiers to stop the slaughter of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
2002 - Independent counsel Robert Ray issued his final report in which he wrote that former President Bill Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2013 - Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a critic of the Obama administration’s drone policy, launched an old-style filibuster to block Senate confirmation of John Brennan’s nomination to be CIA director; Paul lasted nearly 13 hours before yielding the floor.
2013 - Syria’s accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone as the number of U.N.-registered refugees topped 1 million, half of them children.
2016 - Former first lady Nancy Reagan died in Los Angeles at age 94.
2018 - Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, a one-time rising star in the Democratic Party, resigned after pleading guilty to cheating the city out of thousands of dollars to carry on an affair with her bodyguard.
Birthdays
25 - Belle Hassan (reality star)
26 - Alisha Boe (actress)
26 - Kyra Green (model)
27 - Savannah Stehlin (actress)
27 - Dillon Freasier (actor)
29 - Megan Barton Hanson (model)
37 - Eli Marienthal (actor)
37 - Jake Arrieta (baseball player)
43 - Shaun Evans (actor)
50 - Trent Willmon (singer)
51 - Shaquille O'Neal (basketball player)
54 - Amy Pietz (actress)
55 - Moira Kelly (actress)
56 - Connie Britton (actress)
60 - D.L. Hughley (actor)
64 - Tom Arnold (actor)
70 - Armen Keteyian (sports correspondent)
76 - John Stossel (broadcast journalist)
76 - Kiki Dee (singer)
76 - Rob Reiner (actor/director)
76 - Anna Maria Horsford (actress)
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Today in Sports History - March 6
1964 - Heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay officially changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1972 - Jack Nicklaus surpasses Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner.
1973 - Larry Hisle (Minnesota Twins) became baseball's first designated hitter. The spring-training exhibition game was against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1976 - American Dorothy Hamill wins the world figure skating championship.
1982 - NBA history was made when San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the record for most points by two teams in a game. The record was beaten on December 13, 1983 by the Pistons and the Nuggets when they played to a final score of 186-184.
1983 - The United States Football League (USFL) began its first season of competition.
1985 - Future heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson makes his professional debut with a first-round knockout of Hector Mercedes.
1997 - Mike Gartner (Phoenix Coyotes) scored his 30th goal of the season. He set a record for scoring 30 goals in a season for the 17th time in his career.
2019 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers moves past Michael Jordan into fourth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with 32,293 points.
2022 - A massive brawl broke out among fans of clubs in Mexico’s top-division soccer league, leaving 14 hospitalized, two of them in critical condition.
