On This Very Day
March 6th
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- 1831
Edgar Allan Poe dismissed from West Point for neglect of duty. View Post →
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- 1836
Alamo falls after 13 days; Travis, Bowie, Crockett among 182-257 Texans killed.
- 1922
Babe Ruth signs with Yankees for $52,000 a year for 3 years.
- 1945
George Nissen patents the first modern trampoline.
- 1950
Silly Putty goes on sale in the US.
- 2012
9,000 evacuated in Wagga Wagga, Australia due to flood threat.
- 1987
193 die as ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' capsizes in North Sea.
- 1869
Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to Russian Chemical Society.
- 1972
Shaquille O'Neal, basketball legend and cultural icon, born.
- 1475
Michelangelo, master of Renaissance art, born.
- 1899
Aspirin patented by Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.
- 1981
Reagan announces plan to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
- 2001
Napster's decline begins.
- 1521
Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam.
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