March 6, 2024 is:
National Shortbread Day
National Oreo Day
03-06-1475 -Birthday of Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance; famous for his statue of David and for painting the Sistine Chapel.Examples of his works may be viewed at Wikiart.
Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), English poet and wife of Robert Browning, author of “How Do I Love Thee?”
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
1820 – The Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brought Maine into the Union as a free state, and made the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and Colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo were killed and the fort was captured.
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
- Any person descended from Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of the United States, according to the Constitution.
- The Ordinance of 1787 could not confer either freedom or citizenship within the Northwest Territory to non-white individuals.
- The provisions of the Act of 1820, known as the Missouri Compromise, were voided as a legislative act, since the act exceeded the powers of Congress, insofar as it attempted to exclude slavery and impart freedom and citizenship to non-white persons in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase.
1899 – Bayer registered “Aspirin” as a trademark.
1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began. They were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war and were executed.
1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village killed three. The Weather Underground was an American radical left organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the overthrow of the US government. One of the leading members of the Weather Underground was Bill Ayers. On March 6, 1970, during preparations for the bombing of a Non-Commissioned Officers’ (NCO) dance at the Fort Dix U.S. Army base and for Butler Library at Columbia University, there was an explosion in a Greenwich Village safe house when the nail bomb being constructed prematurely detonated for unknown reasons.