March 6
Today in America's Present Past
1646 | Potentially the first patent issued in America to Joseph Jenkes for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts.
1747 | Cavalryman Casimir Pulaski was born.
1775 | Civil Rights: First African American initiated as a Mason in Boston, Massachusetts.
1810 | The Illinois Territory passed the first vaccine mandate legislation.
1819 | SCOTUS: Supreme Court decided McCulloch v. Maryland. Chief Justice Marshall famously noted the “power to tax involves the power to destroy.”
1820 | POTUS: Democratic-Republican President Monroe signed the “Missouri Compromise.”
1831 | Future author Edgar Allan Poe was Court Martialed and expelled from West Point.
1831 | General Philip Sheridan was born.
1836 | Texas lost the Battle of the Alamo, and Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis were among the dead.
1844 | SCOTUS: Justice Gabrial Duvall died.
1857 | SCOTUS: Supreme Court decided Dred Scott v. Sanford.
1857 | Entrepreneur George Dayton was born.
1862 | Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas (Elkhorn Tavern).
1863 | Civil Rights: Detroit’s race and draft riot started.
1865 | Civil War: Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1867 | Comedian Artemus Ward died.
1871 | Civil Rights: Meridian, Mississippi race riot.
1885 | Journalist Ring Lardner was born in Niles, Michigan.
1886 | Publication of the first US nurses’ magazine, The Nightingale.
1888 | Author Louisa May Alcott died.
1900 | POTUS: Eugene Debs was nominated for president by the Social Democrat Party.
1902 | Congress: A permanent U.S. Census office created.
1906 | Comedian Lou Costello was born.
1912 | The National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) first sold Oreo cookies to a grocer in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1918 | US Navy ship Cyclops disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
1924 | Politician William Webster was born.
1926 | Economist Alan Greenspan was born.
1932 | Composer John Philip Sousa died.
1933 | POTUS: The first First Lady Press Conference was held by Eleanor Roosevelt.
1935 | SCOTUS: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes died.
1941 | Sculptor John Gutzon Borglum died.
1945 | George Nissen patented the trampoline.
1950 | Silly Putty went on sale.
1951 | Cold War: The Rosenberg Trial began.
1959 | Actor Tom Arnold was born.
1967 | Boxer Cassius Clay officially changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
1972 | Basketball Pro Shaquille O’Neal was born.
1973 | Novelist Pearl Buck died.
1978 | Publisher Larry Flynt was shot and crippled by a white supremest.
1982 | Author Ayn Rand died.
1986 | Artist Georgia O’Keeffe died.
2016 | First Lady Nancy Reagan died.