On This Day:
Friday March 6, 2015 This is the 65th day of the year, with 300 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: Chinese Dictionaries of Chinese record as many as 40,000 distinct symbols (usually called characters), but a corpus of about 10,000 (those used by Chinese telegraphers, who represent them by 4-unit code groups) is sufficient for practically all purposes. Knowledge of at least 2,000 characters is necessary to be functionally literate in Chinese. Particular words in most cases are represented either by one symbol intended to express the meaning of the word or by a combination of symbols.
Holidays Ghana: Independence Day (from Britain, 1957).
Feast day of Saints Baldred and Billfrith, St. Chrodegang, St. Colette, St. Conon, St.. Cyneburga, St Fridolin, and St. Tibba.
Events 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam.
1834 - The city of York in Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
1836 - Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna recaptured the Alamo, ending a 13-day siege.
1857 - In its "Dred Scott" decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in federal court.
1884 - Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, presented President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage.
1899 - Aspirin was patented by chemist Felix Hoffman.
1930 - Clarence Birdseye's first frozen foods went on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1946 - France recognized Vietnam as a free state within the French Indochina Federation.
1981 - Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus was designed to infect MS-DOS systems and remain dormant until March 6, the birthday of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
1997 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.
1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London art gallery, and is recovered a week later.
2007 - Former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., was found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
Births 1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian Renaissance artist.
1619 - Cyrano De Bergerac, French soldier, author.
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet.
1885 - Ring Lardner, American sports reporter, humorist, writer.
1908 - Lou Costello, American comedian, partner of Bud Abbott.
1937 - Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, Russian, the first woman to orbit the earth.
1946 - David Gilmour, British musician, best known as the lead guitarist in the 70s rock band, Pink Floyd.
1947 - Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer.
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player.
1979 - Ryan Nyquist, BMX rider from Los Gatos, California.
Deaths 1836 - Davy Crockett (whose family name was originally De Crocketagne), 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician.
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist.
1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France.
1982 - Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher.
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist typically associated with the American Southwest and particularly New Mexico where she settled later in life.
1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica.
2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball Hall of Famer.
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