March 6......

March 6 is the 65th (66th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 300 days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 1079 - Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar

● 1205 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King

● 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.

● 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to Casimir IV of Poland, and the Polish king agreed to help in their struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.

● 1460 - Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.

● 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.

● 1579 - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht

● 1590 - Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"

● 1628 - Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict

● 1646 - Joseph Jenkes, Massachusetts, receives 1st colonial machine patent

● 1664 - King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant

● 1714 - Peace of Rastatt: French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg

● 1728 - Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo

● 1775 - 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston

● 1788 - The First Fleet arrives to Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.

● 1799 - Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine

● 1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US

● 1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany

● 1820 - The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.

● 1629 - In Germany, the Edict of Restitution ordered that all church property secularized since 1552 be restored to the Roman Catholic Church.

● 1735 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.'

● 1759 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'There is a wonderful mystery in the manner and circumstances of that mighty working, whereby God subdues all things to himself, and leaves nothing in the heart but his pure love alone.'

● 1806 - Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Durham, England.

● 1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

● 1834 - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor

● 1836 - Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo - After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 189 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort taken. The other side of the coin -- Mexican troops defend their country's abolitionist constitution, defeat foreign slaveholders. San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo.

● 1836 - HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia

● 1854 - At the Washington Monument, several men stole the Pope's Stone from the lapidarium.

● 1856 - The University of Maryland, College Park is chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.

● 1857 - Dred Scott decision by U.S. Supreme Court opens federal territory to slavery and denies citizenship to blacks, ruling that blacks are not entitled to protection under the law. The "unhappy Black Race," wrote Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney in his opinion, had never possessed "rights which the white man was bound to respect."

● 1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army

● 1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern)

● 1865 - Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida

● 1865 - President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball

● 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

● 1870 - Birth of Eugene Humbert, French anarchist militant, Metz. Militant libertarian, pacifist, neo-Malthusian. Killed in prison during WWII Allied bombing, the day before his release.

● 1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king

● 1884 - Susan B. Anthony and more than 100 other suffragists present President Chester Arthur with a demand that he support women's right to vote. They failed, but the two women's suffrage groups -- the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association -- soon merged and worked for the next 36 years toward passage of the 19th Amendment, in 1920.

● 1885 - Ring Lardner, the American writer and satirist, was born.

● 1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington MA

● 1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.

● 1900 - A coal mine explosion in West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.

● 1901 - In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.

● 1902 - Census Bureau forms

● 1906 - Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands

● 1906 - Nora Blatch becomes 1st woman elected to American Society of Civil Engineers

● 1907 - British creditors of the Dominican Republic claimed that the U.S. had failed to collect debts.

● 1913 - Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appears in the IWW's "Little Red Song Book."

● 1915 - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos

● 1918 - US naval collier "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle

● 1919 - Death of Julia H. Johnston, 70, American Presbyterian Sunday School leader. She penned about 500 hymns during her lifetime, one of which is still sung today: "Grace Greater Than Our Sin" (a.k.a. "Marvelous Grace of our Loving Lord").

● 1921 - Kamenev and "Snowball" (Trotsky) issue ultimatum to rebelling soldiers and sailors in Kronstadt.

● 1921 - Police in Sunbury PA issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee {As if they had the power to do so! Idiots!!}

● 1921 - The Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.

● 1924 - British Labour government cuts military budget

● 1925 - Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded.

● 1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith.

● 1928 - A Communist attack on Peking, China resulted in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fled to Swatow.

● 1929 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty

● 1930 - Demonstrations by unemployed workers demanding unemployment insurance occur in virtually every major city in the country. Police attacked a crowd of 35,000 in New York City -- others estimated 100,000 attendees -- and 10,000 people engaged in a melee with police in Cleveland. Republican congressman Hamilton Fish, with the support of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), also introduces a measure in Congress to create a committee to investigate radical activities. This is the beginning of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

● 1930 - A National Trade-Union Unity League council in Madison, Wis., marches around the Capitol Square. During the march, a crowd of Univ. of Wisconsin students attack council leader Lottie Blumenthal, throwing her to the ground, manhandling other demonstrators, and destroying banners and pamphlets. Police arrest five university athletes who led the attack. One of the arrested athletes says (quote) - "We are getting so damned many radical Jews here that something must be done."

● 1930 - Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food

● 1933 - Pres. Roosevelt closes all U.S. banks. Alas, they reopened.

● 1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)

● 1933 - Death of Amos R. Wells, 71, pioneer U.S. Christian educator. From l901 until his death, he was editor of "Peloubet's Notes for the International Sunday School Lessons."

● 1935 - Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died two days shy of his 94th birthday.

● 1936 - Belgium ends Locarno-pact

● 1939 - In Spain, Jose Miaja took over the Madrid government after a military coup and vowed to seek "peace with honor."

● 1940 - 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York NY

● 1940 - Winter War: An armistice is signed by Finland and the Soviet Union.

● 1943 - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa; Rommels assault attack

● 1943 - Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers

● 1944 - USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin

● 1945 - 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm

● 1945 - Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter

● 1945 - Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio

● 1945 - Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee Nazis

● 1945 - A communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.

● 1946 - Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

● 1947 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the contempt conviction of John L. Lewis.

● 1947 - Winston Churchill announced that he opposed British troop withdrawals from India.

● 1947 - XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc CA

● 1948 - USS Newport News, the first air-conditioned naval ship, is launched from Newport News, Virginia.

● 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

● 1951 - Belgium extends conscription to 24 months

● 1953 - Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Josef Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

● 1956 - West Germany amends constitution to permit military conscription.

● 1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.

● 1957 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.

● 1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)

● 1960 - President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament

● 1960 - Switzerland granted women the right to vote in municipal elections.

● 1960 - The United States announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam.

● 1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced

● 1961 - 'Ukulele king' Formby dies; One of Britain's most popular entertainers, George Formby, has died after suffering a heart attack.

● 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1962 - US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression

● 1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah". {Ali has since left the Black Moslem movement and follows a more traditional form of the religion.}

● 1964 - Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece

● 1964 - Protest against Sheraton Palace Hotel's discrimination in hiring, San Francisco.

● 1965 - First American soldier "officially" sets foot on battlefield in Vietnam.

● 1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford

● 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.

● 1967 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US

● 1969 - Nine thousand march at University of Washington to protest Vietnam War.

● 1970 - Three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village (house of Cathy Wilkerson's father) - Diana Oughton, Cathlyn Wilkerson, Kathy Boudin.

● 1970 - Police respond violently to a peaceful student protest at Roosevelt High in East Los Angeles, arresting 37 students; many other students are injured.

● 1970 - Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lies: The Love & Terror Cult to help finance his defense.

● 1970 - Rabies ban on British pet imports; The British Government announces an indefinite ban on the importation of domestic pets.

● 1971 - First annual meeting of Nebraskans for Peace.

● 1971 - First national women's liberation demonstration held in Britain.

● 1972 - Wildcat strike at Lordstown, Ohio GM plant where workers were not expected to resist work discipline (according to company calculations). The company and the union got a big surprise.

● 1972 - Supreme Court rules that Squamish tribal courts do not have jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-Indians on reservations, a major blow to protection of inherent sovereignty.

● 1973 - Former Equity Funding Corporation official accuses the company of perpetuating a $120 million swindle involving 60,000 fictitious life insurance policies.

● 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.

● 1974 - Miners' strike comes to an end; UK coal workers bring an end to a 16 week dispute following a pay increase of over 30%.

● 1975 - Nonviolent march demanding the return of democracy, Delhi, India.

● 1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement over their border dispute.

● 1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia

● 1980 - Islamic militants in Tehran said that they would turn over American hostages to the Revolutionary Council.

● 1980 - French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)

● 1981 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth

● 1981 - Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." He had been on the job 19 years.

● 1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced a plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.

● 1982 - Libertarian cult hero Ayn Rand, 77, author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," dies in New York.

● 1982 - U.N. University for Peace founded. San Jose, Costa Rica.

● 1983 - A woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern; four men were later convicted.

● 1984 - One-year coal strike begins in England. In the end, Thatcher wins.

● 1985 - Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar

● 1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km

● 1987 - 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100

● 1987 - The British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds after leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium en route to Dover, England across the English Channel, killing 193.

● 1988 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike in favor of the selection of a deaf university president. The protest is called Deaf President Now.

● 1988 - 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers

● 1990 - SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17

● 1990 - In Afghanistan, an attempted coup to remove President Najibullah from office failed.

● 1990 - The Russian Parliament passed a law that sanctioned the ownership of private property.

● 1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over"

● 1991 - In Paris, five men were jailed for plotting to smuggle Libyan arms to the Irish Republican Army.

● 1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

● 1993 - Angolans die in battle for Huambo; Hundreds of people are reported to have died in clashes between the rebel Unita movement and Angolan government forces in the central town of Huambo.

● 1994 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.

● 1996 - Hundreds demonstrate for an end to all violence, Palestine.

● 1997 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.

● 1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.

● 1998 - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace

● 1998 - A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.

● 2000 - Three white New York police officers were convicted of a cover-up in a police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

● 2002 - Haida nation initiates lawsuit against British Columbia and federal Canadian governments, demanding aboriginal rights not only to their land, but the maritime resources throughout their native Queen Charlottte Islands.

● 2006 - Gov. Mike Rounds signed legislation banning most abortions in South Dakota. (The ban was rejected by the state's voters in November).

● 2007 - Borat is released on DVD.

BIRTHS

● 1405 - King John II of Castile (1406-54) (d. 1454)

● 1459 - Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)

● 1475 - Michelangelo, Italian artist (d. 1564)

● 1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (d. 1540)

● 1495 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)

● 1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)

● 1663 - Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)

● 1706 - George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)

● 1716 - Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)

● 1724 - Henry Laurens, American President of Continental Congress (1777-78) (d. 1792)

● 1761 - Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)

● 1779 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)

● 1787 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)

● 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (d. 1861)

● 1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)

● 1834 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)

● 1844 - Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and editor (d. 1908)

● 1870 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (d. 1954)

● 1882 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect {d. 1980)

● 1885 - Ring Lardner, American writer (d. 1933)

● 1903 - Empress Nagako of Japan (d. 2000)

● 1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)

● 1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)

● 1906 - Lou Costello, American actor comedian (d. 1959)

● 1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)

● 1915 - Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin,Bohra spiritual leader

● 1915 - Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)

● 1917 - Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)

● 1923 - Ed McMahon, American television personality (''The Tonight Show,'' ''Star Search'')

● 1923 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)

● 1924 - William Webster, Former FBI and CIA director

● 1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist and former Federal Reserve chairman

● 1926 - Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director

● 1927 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)

● 1928 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor

● 1931 - Hal Needham, American stunt man

● 1933 - Ted Abernathy, baseball player (d. 2004)

● 1934 - John Noakes, British television presenter

● 1935 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete

● 1936 - Marion Barry Jr., Mayor of Washington DC

● 1936 - Jean Boht, English actress

● 1937 - Doug Dillard, Country singer

● 1937 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader

● 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut

● 1939 - Christopher Bond, U.S. senator, R-MO

● 1939 - Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)

● 1939 - Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria

● 1939 - Cookie Rojas, baseball player

● 1940 - Joanna Miles, Actress

● 1940 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)

● 1942 - Ben Murphy, American actor

● 1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano

● 1944 - Mary Wilson, American singer (Supremes)

● 1945 - Hugh Grundy, Rock musician (The Zombies)

● 1946 - David Gilmour, British musician (Pink Floyd)

● 1947 - Kiki Dee, British singer

● 1947 - Dick Fosbury, American athlete

● 1947 - Martin Kove, American actor

● 1947 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author

● 1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer (''All in the Family'')

● 1949 - Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan

● 1949 - Tom Arnold, Actor

● 1949 - Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer

● 1951 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)

● 1953 - Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author

● 1953 - Jacklyn Zeman, American actress

● 1955 - Alberta Watson, Canadian actress

● 1959 - Saul Anuzis, American politician from Michigan

● 1959 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian

● 1962 - Valerie French, American artist and animatronics art director

● 1964 - Skip Ewing, Country songwriter

● 1964 - D.L. Hughley, Actor ("Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip")

● 1964 - Yvette Wilson, Actress

● 1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, Musician

● 1966 - Alan Davies, British comedian and actor

● 1967 - Shuler Hensley, Actor

● 1968 - Connie Britton, Actress ("Spin City," "24," "Friday Night Lights")

● 1968 - Moira Kelly, American actress (''One Tree Hill'')

● 1968 - Michael Romeo - American musician

● 1969 - Tari Phillips, American basketball player

● 1969 - Amy Pietz, Actress

● 1970 - Shane Brolly, British actor

● 1971 - Sean Morley, American professional wrestler

● 1971 - Darrick Martin, American basketball player

● 1972 - Terry Murphy, Northern Irish snooker player

● 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

● 1973 - Trent Willmon, Country singer

● 1974 - Shan Farmer, Country musician (Ricochet)

● 1974 - Beanie Sigel, Rapper

● 1975 - Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer

● 1976 - Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler

● 1977 - Bubba Sparxxx, Rapper

● 1977 - Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer

● 1979 - Tim Howard, American soccer player

● 1979 - David Flair, American professional wrestler

● 1980 - Ross Mawhinney - British born Italian radio DJ

● 1983 - Andranik Teymourian - Iranian football player

● 1986 - Jimmy Galeota, Actor

● 1986 - Eli Marienthal, Actor

DEATHS

● 1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)

● 1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)

● 1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador

● 1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)

● 1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)

● 1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)

● 1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)

● 1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)

● 1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)

● 1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)

● 1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)

● 1866 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794)

● 1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)

● 1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)

● 1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)

● 1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)

● 1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)

● 1933 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)

● 1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)

● 1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)

● 1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)

● 1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)

● 1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)

● 1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)

● 1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)

● 1961 - George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)

● 1964 - King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)

● 1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)

● 1967 - John Haden Badley, author and educator (b. 1865)

● 1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)

● 1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)

● 1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)

● 1970 - William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)

● 1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)

● 1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

● 1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)

● 1981 - George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)

● 1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)

● 1985 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)

● 1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)

● 1993 - Douglas Marland, American writer (b. 1935)

● 1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, and politician (b. 1920)

● 1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)

● 1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)

● 1998 - Frank Barrett, Baseball player (b. 1913)

● 1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)

● 2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)

● 2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)

● 2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)

● 2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)

● 2004 - Ray Fernandez, wrestler (b. 1957)

● 2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

● 2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)

● 2005 - Danny Gardella, baseball player (b. 1920)

● 2006 - Kirby Puckett, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1960)

● 2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Baldred
● St. Balther
● St. Basil
● St. Bilfrid
● St. Chrodegang
● St. Coleta of Ghent
● St. Conon
● St. Fridolin
● St. Kyneburga, Kyneswide, & Tibba
● St. Marcian
● St. Ollegarius

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 23 (Civil Date: March 6)
● Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna.
● Saints John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian deserts.
● St. Alexander, founder of the Order of the Unsleeping Ones.
● St. Gorgonia, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian.
● St. Damian of Esphigmenou Skete on Mt. Athos.
● St. Moses, monk of Byelozersk.
● St. Polycarp, monk of Briansk.
● New-Martyr Damian, monk of Mt. Athos, who suffered at Larissa.

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Clement.
● Martyr Thea.
● Repose of Abbot Nazarius of Valaam (1809).

● Old Roman Catholic:
● Feast of Sts. Perpetua & Felicitas, martyrs (now 3/7)

● Panamá : Jesus Nazarene of Atalaya

● Guam : Magellan Day/Discovery Day (1521)

● US : Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day

● Ghana - Independence Day (from Britain, 1957)

● Alamo Day in Texas


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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