March 6, 2024
QUOTE
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
C. S. Forester
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BIRTHDAYS
1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright
1831 – Philip Sheridan, American general
1849 – Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer
1906 – Lou Costello, Actor and comedian
1947 – Dick Fosbury, High jumper
IN MEMORY
1836 – Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo
James Bonham, James Bowie, Davy Crockett, William B. Travis
1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Colonel, lawyer, and jurist
2016 – Nancy Reagan, Actress and 42nd First Lady of the United States
IN ON THIS DAY
1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, and Maine into the Union as a free state.
1836 – The Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
1899 – Bayer registers “Aspirin” as a trademark.
1967 – Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.