On this day in History - Mar. 06

• 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.
• 1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti was born (d. 18 Feb 1564), Italian artist : sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, born in Caprese, Tuscany.(Renaissance artist: Sistine Chapel ceiling; sculptor: David; architect: St. Peter’s [Rome];
• 1480 - Ratificação por parte dos Reis Católicos do Tratado de Alcáçovas, que terminou a Guerra de Sucessão de Castela. D. Afonso V abandona definitivamente as pretensões de Portugal sobre as Canárias, sendo reconhecido a Portugal o senhorio da Madeira, Açores, Guiné e Cabo Verde, assim como a conquista do Reino de Fez.
• 1521 - Fernão de Magalhães discovers Guam.
• 1619 - Savinien Cyrano de Bergeracwas born,poet.
• 1635 - Decreto que alarga o imposto do real-d'água a todo o país. A aplicação do imposto é feito em proveito integral da coroa. Vai tornar-se um dos impostos mais detestados, e símbolo da opressão castelhana em Portugal.
• 1719 - Violento tremor de terra em Lisboa e no Algarve.
• 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born, poet(Sonnets from the Portuguese).
• 1820 - The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress and signed by President James Monroe, providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibits slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
• 1826 - D. João VI nomeia, quatro dias antes de morrer, um conselho de regência presidido pela sua filha a infanta Isabel Maria.
• 1831 - Philip Henry Sheridan, Union Army general.
• 1836 - The Alamo fell to Mexican forces.
• 1853 - Estreia da ópera La Traviata de Verdi, no Teatro La Fenice, em Veneza
• 1857 - The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that slaves were not citizens.
• 1860 While campaigning for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike.
• 1885 - Ring Lardner, was born. Writer (You Know Me, Al).
• 1888 - Louisa May Alcott dies just hours after the burial of her father.
• 1899 - Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman's discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid
• 1906 - Lou Costellowas born, comedian, actor.
• 1914 - German Prince Wilhelm de Wied is crowned as King of Albania.
• 1916 - The Allies recapture Fort Douamont in France during the Battle of Verdun.
• 1918 - US naval boat "Cyclops" disappeared in "Bermuda Triangle."
• 1921 - Criação do Partido Comunista Português, sucessor da Federação Maximalista Portuguesa.
• 1926 - Alan Greenspan chairman of the Federal Reserve
• 1928 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born, in Aracataca, a town in Northern Colombia, writer(One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera).
• 1937 - Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, was born, Russian astronaut, the first woman to orbit the Earth.
• 1944 - Dame Kiri Te Kannawa,was born, operatic soprano.
• 1945 - Cologne, Germany, falls to General Courtney Hodges' First Army.
• 1947 - Rob Reiner was born,in The Bronx, New York, actor, director, producer.
• 1953 - Upon Josef Stalin's death, Georgi Malenkov is named Soviet premier.
• 1957 - The former British colonies of Togoland and the Gold Coast united to form independent Ghana.
• 1960 - The Swiss grant women the right to vote in municipal elections.
• 1972 - Shaquille O'Neal was born, basketball player.>
• 1987 - The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. At least 26 are dead.
• 1992 - A pintora Helena Vieira da Silva morre em Paris, com 83 anos.
• 1997 - Queen Elizabeth II launched the first royal website.
• 2004 - Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans marched through Caracas to protest the rejection of a petition aimed at recalling President Hugo Chavez.