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Today in history
2010/03/06 09:52:08 |
Taipei, March 6 (CNA) Today is Saturday, March 6, or the 21st day of the first month of the Year of the Tiger according to the lunar calendar. Following is a list of important events that occurred on this date in the past:
1619: Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, French novelist and playwright, is born. He is said to have fought over 1,000 duels to avenge unkind remarks about the size of his nose.
1836: After 12 days of artillery bombardment, 6,000 Mexican troops under Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna capture the Alamo and massacre the defenders, including famous Texan Davy Crockett.
1888: Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, temperance campaigner and author of "Little Women," dies hours after her father is buried. She was 56.
1899: Acetylsalicylic acid, better known as aspirin, a new pain relief drug, is patented by chemist Felix Hoffmann.
1900: Gottlieb Daimler, the German motor engineer, inventor of the motorcycle, and pioneer automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal-combustion engine, dies at the age of 66.
1911: Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, an actor-turned-politician whose administration was marked by economic recovery, military involvement in Grenada, Central America, Lebanon and Libya, and improved relations with the Soviet Union, is born.
1918: Precious forest cover on Alishan (Mt. Ali) in Taiwan's Chiayi County is razed by three days of fire.
1932: John Philip Sousa, American bandmaster and composer known as "the March King," dies at the age of 78. He wrote marches such as "Stars and Stripes Forever."
1941: Gutzon Borglum, an American sculptor noted for his monumental works, particularly the busts of four U.S. presidents carved into Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, dies at the age of 74.
1944: U.S. Air Force bombers start daylight bombing raids on Berlin from U.S. bases in Britain in an attempt to force Germany to surrender.
1957: Britain gives the Gold Coast its independence within the Commonwealth. British Togoland becomes part of the new West African nation, which is renamed Ghana.
1953: Georgy Malenkov becomes Soviet premier and first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party following the death of Joseph Stalin.
1959: The 36,000-ton Faith, the first tanker to be built in the Republic of China, is launched at Keelung.
1967: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva requests political asylum at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi.
1973: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, an American writer whose life as a missionary in China lent a vivid immediacy to her novels, which included "The Good Earth," dies at the age of 81. She won the 1938 Nobel Prize for literature.
1983: German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his Christian Democrats regain power.
1987: The Herald of Free Enterprise, a British ferry which plied a route across the English Channel, capsizes in shallow water outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. More than 200 people drowned.
1988: Kurt Waldheim, Austrian president and former director-general of the United Nations, admits that he knew Allied commandos held by his unit during World War II would be executed contrary to the Geneva Convention.
1989: ROC President Lee Teng-hui arrives in Singapore for a four-day visit.
1993: Shin Kanemaru, former vice president of the Liberal-Democratic Party, a conservative party which has held more seats in Japan's Diet than any other party has since 1955, is arrested for alleged tax evasion.
1995: The first world summit meeting on social development sponsored by the United Nations is held in Copenhagen, with government officials from 184 nations attending.
1995: A Coordination and Service Office for the Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center (also known as the APROC Window) is established at the ROC Council for Economic Planning and Development to ensure that the ROC's Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center plan is faithfully implemented.
1999: Ta Mok, the last Khmer Rouge leader still at large, is nabbed near northern Cambodia's border with Thailand.
2000: Japanese police crack down on one of the country's largest-ever amphetamine-smuggling rings, using information supplied by ROC police authorities.
2001: David Ho, a leading U.S. AIDS researcher, says in a speech in Taipei that he will begin human testing of an AIDS vaccine in mainland China later this year.
Confucius' lesson of the day: "A fleck on a stone may be ground away; a word misspoken will remain always." ENDITEM
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