12BC The Roman Emperor Augustus was named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor on March 6, 12 BC. The Pontifex Maximus ("greatest pontiff" or "greatest bridge-builder") was the high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome. A distinctly religious office under the early Roman Republic, it gradually became politicized until, with Augustus, it was subsumed into the Imperial office.
961 The island of Crete was ruled by Muslim Arabs from the 820s until the Siege of Chandax, which lasted from autumn 960 until spring 961. On March 6, 961 the main Muslim fortress and capital of the island, Chandax (modern Heraklion) was captured by the Byzantines. With the capture of Chandax, the rest of Crete quickly capitulated to the Byzantine army, and the island was brought back under the suzerainty of Constantinople.
1475 Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo was born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni on March 6, 1475 in Caprese a tiny Florentine village in Tuscany. When the young Michelangelo announced he was going to be a painter he was beaten by his father. When he later announced his wish to become a sculptor his family were even more outraged as it was generally thought that the heavy manual labor involved rendered sculpture inferior to painting.
1521 On November 28, 2010, Ferdinand Magellan's ships entered the South Pacific, having survived the wild and stormy waters that divided the Latin American mainland from Tierra Del Fuego. After three months of slow sailing across the vast Pacific Ocean, Magellan's men were growing increasingly concerned and hungry as they had sailed 92 days without sighting any land. Eventually, on March 6, 1521 Magellan and his three ships reached the Marianas and Guam.
1665 The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, German-British natural philosopher Henry Oldenburg, published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal on March 6, 1665. The journal was designed to provide a platform for members of the Royal Society to share their research and ideas with each other and with the wider scientific community.
1806 The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, between the villages of Coxhoe and Kelloe in County Durham, England. Elizabeth was educated at home and attended lessons with her brother's tutor. This gave her a good education for a girl of that time. She was an intensely studious, precocious child and had read passages from Paradise Lost and Shakespearean plays, and the histories of England, Greece and Rome before the age of ten.
1834 The Canadian city of Toronto was originally named York after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. American forces attacked York in 1813 as part of the War of 1812. The Battle of York ended in its capture and the Americans subsequently plundered the town, and set fire to the legislative buildings. York, Upper Canada, was incorporated as a city on March 6, 1834. It was renamed Toronto, the Huron Indian word for meeting place.
1836 Following a 13-day siege, the Texas volunteers defending the Alamo Franciscan mission and fortress were killed and the fort was captured. Fewer than fifty of the almost 250 Texians who had occupied the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas were alive when the Battle of the Alamo ended at approximately 6:30 a.m. on March 6, 1836.
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, premiered at Venice's La Fenice on March 6, 1853. The opera tells the tragic tale of a courtesan who falls in love. At the first performance the audience laughed because the heroine, who is supposed to be dying of consumption, was very fat. The performance was so bad that it caused the Italian composer to revise portions of the opera. However, La Traviata soon became enormously popular.
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society on March 6, 1869. He was working as a chemistry consultant for local cheese factories when he had the idea and claimed to have envisioned the complete arrangement of the elements in a dream.
1888 The author Louisa May Alcott died March 6, 1888, at the age of 55. Alcott penned over 300 books in different genres. These included several racy pot boilers under a pseudonym A. M. Barnard
Her most famous book was Little Women. This largely autobiographical novel was penned in six weeks at home during the summer of 1868. The story about four teenage sisters growing up in a Victorian New England village was based on Louisa and her sisters coming of age.
1899 The compound salicylic acid, which occurs naturally in willow bark gives pain relief. Unfortunately it is bitter tasting and can cause vomiting. By mixing acetylating salicylic acid with acetic acid, German Bayer AG chemist Felix Hoffman concocted a less acidic formula to ease his father’s arthritis on August 10, 1897. The new drug, formally acetylsalicylic acid, was named Aspirin by Bayer AG and trademarked on March 6, 1899.
1902 The Spanish soccer team Real Madrid was founded on March 6, 1902 as Madrid Football Club.
Three years after its foundation, in 1905, Madrid FC won its first title after defeating Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish Cup final. The word Real is Spanish for Royal and was bestowed to the club by King Alfonso XIII in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem.
1912 The Oreo sandwich cookie was first developed and produced by the National Biscuit Company (today known as Nabisco) in 1912. Oreo was launched as an imitation of the original cream-filled chocolate cookie, Hydrox, which was introduced by the Sunshine Company four years earlier.
The first Oreo was sold on March 6, 1912 to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1912 Italian forces became the first to use airships in war on March 6, 1912. During the Italo–Turkish War two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops and Libyan Mujahideen encamped at Janzour in Libya from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1926 In 1914 Pioneer rocket scientist and New England physics professor Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket fuel, though he didn't get a rocket off the ground for another dozen years. Goddard eventually launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts on March 6, 1926.
1932 The "American March King" John Philip Sousa died in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania, of heart failure, on March 6, 1932, while on tour with his band. His death was national news, and he was given a hero's funeral. It was attended by a crowd estimated at over 50,000 people, including President Herbert Hoover and many other dignitaries.
1950 Silly Putty is a silicone plastic "clay" with unusual physical properties, that is sold as a toy for children. It was first created when Scottish-born engineer James Wright, while attempting to develop a substitute for rubber, dropped a lump of gooey stuff on a General Electric laboratory floor and it bounced. Silly Putty was introduced as a toy on March 6, 1950 by Peter C. L. Hodgson, Sr. a marketing consultant, who packaged one-ounce portions of the rubber-like material in plastic eggs.
1957 European contact with Ghana began in 1470 and twelve years later the Portuguese built a trading settlement there. In 1821, the British took control of all of the trading posts located on the Gold Coast. From 1826 to 1900, the British fought battles against the native Ashanti and in 1902, the British defeated them and claimed the northern part of today's Ghana. Ghana became the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British on March 6, 1957 at 12 a.m.
1967 On March 6, 1967, Joseph Stalin's daughter, 41-year-old Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, where she publicly denounced Communism and "embraced God, America and apple pie."
1986 American artist Georgia O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986. One of the most prominent and influential artists of the 20th century, O'Keefe was known for her distinctive style and innovative approach to painting. She is best known for her large-scale paintings of natural forms such as flowers, shells, and landscapes, which often emphasized their abstract shapes and vivid colors.
2010 On March 6, 2010 a blind hiker, 45-year-old Mike Hanson, set on the Appalachian Trail with a goal to inspire other visually impaired people. Seven months later, he finished hiking the 1,700 miles using only a cellphone, GPS open-source software, and hearing to locate camps, trailheads, and water sites.
 |
| Augustus as Pontifex Maximus |
961 The island of Crete was ruled by Muslim Arabs from the 820s until the Siege of Chandax, which lasted from autumn 960 until spring 961. On March 6, 961 the main Muslim fortress and capital of the island, Chandax (modern Heraklion) was captured by the Byzantines. With the capture of Chandax, the rest of Crete quickly capitulated to the Byzantine army, and the island was brought back under the suzerainty of Constantinople.
1475 Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo was born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni on March 6, 1475 in Caprese a tiny Florentine village in Tuscany. When the young Michelangelo announced he was going to be a painter he was beaten by his father. When he later announced his wish to become a sculptor his family were even more outraged as it was generally thought that the heavy manual labor involved rendered sculpture inferior to painting.
1521 On November 28, 2010, Ferdinand Magellan's ships entered the South Pacific, having survived the wild and stormy waters that divided the Latin American mainland from Tierra Del Fuego. After three months of slow sailing across the vast Pacific Ocean, Magellan's men were growing increasingly concerned and hungry as they had sailed 92 days without sighting any land. Eventually, on March 6, 1521 Magellan and his three ships reached the Marianas and Guam.
 |
| By Magellan_Elcano_Circumnavigation-fr.svg: |
1665 The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, German-British natural philosopher Henry Oldenburg, published the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal on March 6, 1665. The journal was designed to provide a platform for members of the Royal Society to share their research and ideas with each other and with the wider scientific community.
1806 The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on March 6, 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, between the villages of Coxhoe and Kelloe in County Durham, England. Elizabeth was educated at home and attended lessons with her brother's tutor. This gave her a good education for a girl of that time. She was an intensely studious, precocious child and had read passages from Paradise Lost and Shakespearean plays, and the histories of England, Greece and Rome before the age of ten.
1834 The Canadian city of Toronto was originally named York after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. American forces attacked York in 1813 as part of the War of 1812. The Battle of York ended in its capture and the Americans subsequently plundered the town, and set fire to the legislative buildings. York, Upper Canada, was incorporated as a city on March 6, 1834. It was renamed Toronto, the Huron Indian word for meeting place.
 |
| View of Toronto 1854. Whitefield, Edwin. 1816-1892 |
1836 Following a 13-day siege, the Texas volunteers defending the Alamo Franciscan mission and fortress were killed and the fort was captured. Fewer than fifty of the almost 250 Texians who had occupied the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas were alive when the Battle of the Alamo ended at approximately 6:30 a.m. on March 6, 1836.
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, premiered at Venice's La Fenice on March 6, 1853. The opera tells the tragic tale of a courtesan who falls in love. At the first performance the audience laughed because the heroine, who is supposed to be dying of consumption, was very fat. The performance was so bad that it caused the Italian composer to revise portions of the opera. However, La Traviata soon became enormously popular.
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society on March 6, 1869. He was working as a chemistry consultant for local cheese factories when he had the idea and claimed to have envisioned the complete arrangement of the elements in a dream.
 |
| Periodic table |
1888 The author Louisa May Alcott died March 6, 1888, at the age of 55. Alcott penned over 300 books in different genres. These included several racy pot boilers under a pseudonym A. M. Barnard
Her most famous book was Little Women. This largely autobiographical novel was penned in six weeks at home during the summer of 1868. The story about four teenage sisters growing up in a Victorian New England village was based on Louisa and her sisters coming of age.
1899 The compound salicylic acid, which occurs naturally in willow bark gives pain relief. Unfortunately it is bitter tasting and can cause vomiting. By mixing acetylating salicylic acid with acetic acid, German Bayer AG chemist Felix Hoffman concocted a less acidic formula to ease his father’s arthritis on August 10, 1897. The new drug, formally acetylsalicylic acid, was named Aspirin by Bayer AG and trademarked on March 6, 1899.
1902 The Spanish soccer team Real Madrid was founded on March 6, 1902 as Madrid Football Club.
Three years after its foundation, in 1905, Madrid FC won its first title after defeating Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish Cup final. The word Real is Spanish for Royal and was bestowed to the club by King Alfonso XIII in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem.
1912 The Oreo sandwich cookie was first developed and produced by the National Biscuit Company (today known as Nabisco) in 1912. Oreo was launched as an imitation of the original cream-filled chocolate cookie, Hydrox, which was introduced by the Sunshine Company four years earlier.
The first Oreo was sold on March 6, 1912 to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1912 Italian forces became the first to use airships in war on March 6, 1912. During the Italo–Turkish War two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops and Libyan Mujahideen encamped at Janzour in Libya from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1926 In 1914 Pioneer rocket scientist and New England physics professor Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket fuel, though he didn't get a rocket off the ground for another dozen years. Goddard eventually launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts on March 6, 1926.
1932 The "American March King" John Philip Sousa died in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania, of heart failure, on March 6, 1932, while on tour with his band. His death was national news, and he was given a hero's funeral. It was attended by a crowd estimated at over 50,000 people, including President Herbert Hoover and many other dignitaries.
1950 Silly Putty is a silicone plastic "clay" with unusual physical properties, that is sold as a toy for children. It was first created when Scottish-born engineer James Wright, while attempting to develop a substitute for rubber, dropped a lump of gooey stuff on a General Electric laboratory floor and it bounced. Silly Putty was introduced as a toy on March 6, 1950 by Peter C. L. Hodgson, Sr. a marketing consultant, who packaged one-ounce portions of the rubber-like material in plastic eggs.
 |
| Silly Putty in the form of a solid cube |
1957 European contact with Ghana began in 1470 and twelve years later the Portuguese built a trading settlement there. In 1821, the British took control of all of the trading posts located on the Gold Coast. From 1826 to 1900, the British fought battles against the native Ashanti and in 1902, the British defeated them and claimed the northern part of today's Ghana. Ghana became the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British on March 6, 1957 at 12 a.m.
1967 On March 6, 1967, Joseph Stalin's daughter, 41-year-old Svetlana Alliluyeva, defected at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, where she publicly denounced Communism and "embraced God, America and apple pie."
1986 American artist Georgia O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986. One of the most prominent and influential artists of the 20th century, O'Keefe was known for her distinctive style and innovative approach to painting. She is best known for her large-scale paintings of natural forms such as flowers, shells, and landscapes, which often emphasized their abstract shapes and vivid colors.
2010 On March 6, 2010 a blind hiker, 45-year-old Mike Hanson, set on the Appalachian Trail with a goal to inspire other visually impaired people. Seven months later, he finished hiking the 1,700 miles using only a cellphone, GPS open-source software, and hearing to locate camps, trailheads, and water sites.
Comments
Post a Comment