MARCH 6TH IN HISTORY.

March 6th in History
1836: The seige at the Alamo, Texas, ends after 12 days with only a handul of survivors
1899: Aspirin was patented by Felix Hoffman
1957: Israel completes its withdrawl from Sinai, Middle East
1997: A lone gunmen steals a £650,000 Picasso from a London art gallery and escapes in a taxi.
1996: Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams makes public an IRA warning that it is prepared for another 25 years of war.
1987: The Herald of Free Enterprise ferry capsizes while leaving Zeebrugge Harbour killing 193 passengers.
1957: Ghana independence.
1944: World War II: US planes from bases in Britain begin daylight bombing raids over Berlin.
1930: In Massachusetts, Clarence Birdseye markets the first frozen foods.
1926: Fire destroys the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon.
1899: Chemist Felix Hoffman patents the world's most used pain-relief drug, the aspirin.
1890: An ornithologist releases 60 pairs of starlings in New York's Central Park as a memorial to William Shakespeare. The starling is now one of America's worst pests.
1857: Start of the Indian Mutiny within the British Army.
1836: The Alamo falls to Mexican forces under Santa Anna after a 12 day battle. Frontiersmen Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie are among those killed.
1944: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand operatic soprano.
1922: British comedian Frankie Howerd.
1922: Russian cosmonaut Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova - the first woman in space.
1806: Author Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
1475: Italian artist Michaelangelo.
1994: Merlina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician, aged 68.
1967: American singer Nelson Eddy.
1961: English singer, actor and entertainer George Formby.
1951: Welsh composer, playwright andIvor Novello dies in his flat above the Strand Theatre in London.
1930: Admiral Von Tirpitz, German sea commander.
1900: German motor engineer Gottileb Daimler
1888: Author Louisa M.Alcott.

March 6th birthdays
1475: Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor
1619: Cyrano de Bergerac, French novelist
1806: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet
1945: Rob Reiner, American director