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1454Mar 6Casimir proclaimed the attachment of Prussia to Polish rule. This began a 13-year war over Prussia (1454-1466).
1521Mar 6Magellan discovered Guam.
1791Mar 6Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures, was born.
1808Mar 61st college orchestra in US was founded at Harvard.
1834Mar 6The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
1836Mar 6HMS Beagle and Darwin reached King George’s Sound, Australia.
1861Mar 6Provisionary Confederate Congress established Confederate Army.
1865Mar 6President Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Ball was held.
1896Mar 6Charles B. King rode his “Horseless Carriage,” the 1st auto in Detroit.
1901Mar 6A would-be assassin tried to kill Wilhelm II in Bremen.
1909Mar 6Gerhart Hauptmann’s “Griselda,” premiered in Vienna.
1921Mar 6The National Association of Moving Picture Industry announced their intention to censor U.S. movies.
1923Mar 6The Turkish National Assembly rejected the Lausanne Treaty in Angora.
1927Mar 6Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (d.2004), USAF astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5), was born in Shawnee, Okla.
1933Mar 6Poland occupied free city Danzig (Gdansk).
1937Mar 6Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian astronaut, was born. In 1963 she became the first women to orbit the Earth on Vostok 6.
1943Mar 6Battle at Medenine, North-Africa: Rommel’s assault attack.
1946Mar 6France recognized Vietnam statehood within the Indo-Chinese federation.
1950Mar 6Silly Putty was invented.
1955Mar 6A US Atomic Energy Spokesman said a cloud from the atomic blast at Nevada’s Yucca Flat passed over the Central California coastline.
1961Mar 61st London minicabs were introduced.
1962Mar 6US promised Thailand assistance against “communist” aggression.
1965Mar 6“How to Succeed in Business” closed at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances.
1967Mar 6US Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
1970Mar 6The Beatles released “Let it Be” in UK.
1978Mar 6Larry Flynt (b.1942), founder of “Hustler Magazine,” was shot and wounded outside a Georgia courtroom. He was left partially paralyzed. His story was the subject of the 1996 film “The People vs. Larry Flynt.”
1981Mar 6President Reagan announced plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs.
1983Mar 6“On Your Toes” opened at Virginia Theater in NYC for 505 performances.
1985Mar 6In Mexico authorities found the body of kidnapped US drug agent Enrique Camarena Salazar and a Mexican pilot at a ranch east of Guadalajara.
1988Mar 6British SAS officers killed 3 IRA suspects in Gibraltar.
1991Mar 6Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told a cheering joint session of Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over.”
1994Mar 6Two top Clinton administration officials, Vice President Al Gore and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos, appeared on the Sunday TV talk shows to blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater.
1996Mar 6Lamar Alexander and Dick Lugar announced they were dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
1997Mar 6In Angola an armed group killed 30 people at a Roman Catholic mission in southern Angola and held 6 missionaries hostage.
1998Mar 6It was reported that the conservative Tax Foundation estimated that the state of Mississippi received $1.64 for a $1.00 it sent to Washington.
1999Mar 6From Brazil it was reported that heavy flooding had hit Sao Paulo. 27 people were killed and 10,000 left homeless.
2000Mar 6Eric Clapton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time; among the newest honorees were James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Earth, Wind and Fire.
2001Mar 6Calling it the “most accurate census in history,” the Bush administration refused to adjust the 2000 head count.
2002Mar 6Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report in which he wrote that former President Clinton could have been indicted and probably would have been convicted in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2003Mar 6President Bush held a new conference and warned that he was prepared to go to war soon in Iraq with or without UN backing.
2004Mar 6President Bush backed off on plans to require frequent Mexican travelers to the United States to be fingerprinted and photographed before crossing the border.
2005Mar 6Actress Teresa Wright died in New Haven, Conn., at age 86.
2006Mar 6The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays.
2007Mar 6Democratic lawmakers accused the Bush administration of carrying out a political purge by firing at least 8 US attorneys.
2008Mar 6In Nevada letters began arriving this week to patients who received injected anesthesia at the endoscopy center from March 2004 to mid-January were urged to get tested for hepatitis B and C, and HIV. The Las Vegas clinic was found to be reusing syringes and vials of medication for nearly four years.
2009Mar 6The US Labor Department reported that the nation’s unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.
2010Mar 6In western Sudan 10 people were killed in renewed clashes between the Misseriya and Nuwayba tribes in the Darfur region.
2012Mar 6A US federal court in Houston convicted R. Allen Stanford (61) of running a $7 billion investor fraud scheme that snared investors from 113 countries. He was first indicted in June, 2009.
2013Mar 6Arkansas adopted the country’s most restrictive ban on abortion, at 12 weeks of pregnancy. Democrat Gov. Mike Beebe called it “blatantly unconstitutional.”
2014Mar 6The US Climate Prediction Center (CPC) issued its first El Nino watch in almost 18 months, warning the phenomenon that can wreak havoc on weather and roil global crops could strike as early as the Northern Hemisphere summer.
Source: Timelines of History 

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