This Day in History Mar. 6

Mar. 6

1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa Palestine
1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1834 York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto
1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington MA
1896 1st auto in Detroit MI, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1902 Census Bureau forms
1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York NY
1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa; Rommels assault attack
1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1944 USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
1945 Cologne is captured by American troops
1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc CA
1961 1st London minicabs introduced
1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
1986 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers

1932: Composer-conductor John Philip Sousa dies on 14th floor of Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, PA, just hours after conducting rehearsal of " The Stars and Stripes Forever" with the Ringgold Band.

And to add to that.....in 1948 I was born, Yeahhhhhhh! Thanks mom!

1953, Joseph Stalin dies, and a Ukranian restaurant in the United States offers free borscht in celebration.