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March 6: National Frozen Food Day: -- An
annual recognition of the preservation feat that freezing fruits,
vegetables, and meats have been on modern life. Celebrated each
year on March 6th, the observance takes a look at how frozen food
impacts our daily lives, its history, and how far it has come. The
frozen food aisle is as standard in the grocery store today as
ATMs and self-checkouts. It's also a convenience we don't give a
second thought to unless the power goes out. The American
inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist Clarence Frank Birdseye II
receives credit for developing the method for the flash freezing
preserve flavor and quality of foods. Today, we see his name in
nearly every canned goods and frozen food aisle in every grocery
store in America. While food preservation by freezing wasn't new,
Birdseye discovered the key was freezing the food quickly. Flash
freezing forms small ice crystals, which prevent the cell walls
from bursting. Large ice crystals turn the food to mush. Birdseye
applied for many patents, but one of his earliest is from 1927 for
a process to flash freeze foods. Consider that in 1930 only 8
percent of American households had refrigeration units in their
homes. A frozen food patent in 1927 was a visionary step in a long
chain of events to make frozen foods a marketable product. In
1930, the Birdseye label, owned by the General Food Corporation,
began selling 26 products to 18 retails stores in and around
Springfield, Massachusetts. Clarence Birdseye continued his work
with General Foods Corporation. Birdseye died on October 7, 1956,
but the name and products he inspired continue today. In 1954,
Swanson introduced the first frozen dinners. At the time, the
consumers knew them as TV dinners since they were designed to be
eaten in front of the newly popular television. Special folding
trays, called TV trays, stored conveniently away when not in use.
But when dinner time rolled around, they unfolded for each
person's TV dinner. Everyone gathered around the television to
enjoy their meal. These pre-cooked meals only needed to be heated
through in the oven to be ready to eat. No cooking skills were
required. Pre-heat the oven, cook for the required length of time
and eat. The invention of the microwave also changed the types of
frozen foods and just how convenient these items can be. Over the
years, other frozen foods have developed to meet consumer demand.
Various family-sized meals, health conscience meals, and even
organic meals have hit the markets in recent years. So take a trip
to your local grocery store and find one of your favorites in the
frozen food aisle - and use #NationalFrozenFoodDay to post about
it on social media! President Ronald Reagan signed Proclamation
5157 in which it said: "Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan,
President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim
March 6, 1984, as Frozen Food Day, and I call upon the American
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6: National Oreo Cookie Day: --
Today we celebrate America's number one cookie on its very special
day. Everyone loves a good cookie, and good cookies stem from the
classics. In fact, one of our absolute favorites is a timeless
classic: the Oreo. With crisp chocolate cookies and creamy
filling, these little cookies have captured our hearts and our
stomachs. The Oreo was first introduced in 1912 and it has been
the best-selling cookie in America ever since. We love to dunk
them, twist them, and straight up take a bite. Here's to the
delicious Oreo! The late Sam J. Porcello, a former Nabisco food
scientist, is known for his work in terms of the modern Oreo
cookie, which has been a creamy favorite snack for decades. This
cookie creation is without a doubt one of his most notable
achievements in his 34 years at Nabisco. And frankly, we believe
that life has been sweeter ever since, since we at National Today
just cannot get enough! The Oreo cookie is nearly 108 years old,
and is enjoyed by cookie lovers of all ages across the globe.
Let's face it: classic never goes out of style. And, at over 100
years old Oreo cookies are available in various colors, sizes,
flavors. There are more inventing flavors coming every year. There
are double stuffed, thins, mini, Neapolitan, and the aptly named
Mega Stuf. We can even savor the flavor in an Oreo cake! Dunk them
in milk, have them after a meal or a snack, share them with
friends or covet them for yourself. However we want them, we can
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6: National Dentist's Day: -- A
yearly day set aside for us to say, "Thank you" to the
person who keeps our pearly whites in tip-top order every 6
months. In many cases, the day of our dental visit usually has us
a bit nervous and sometimes anxious. We would often rather be
someplace else than sitting in a dental chair. The dentist is not
the person most of us look forward to seeing. However, when our
checkup is done, our teeth are cleaned, the cavities are filled,
the broken tooth is fixed, or a toothache is gone, we appreciate
what the dentist has done for us. The dentist is also the person
we count on when a tooth aches or an emergency occurs. They make
sure our oral health isn't signifying something more serious.
Their offices send out reminders, encouraging us to come in for
our routine check-ups and schedule us for appointments. They
create plans of care and make our smiles look great, too. So take
some time to thank your dentist. While you're at it, schedule your
next preventative cleaning. Pick up a new toothbrush and some
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6: Alamo Day: -- March 6, 1836: The
American Frontier (The American West, The Wild West, The Old
West): The Texas Revolution: The Battle Of The Alamo: -- After a
thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops led by
General Santa Anna, all 187 Texian volunteers defending the Alamo,
including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, are
killed and the fort is captured. Santa Anna's cruelty during the
battle inspired many Texians, both Texas settlers and adventurers
from the United States, to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a
desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the
Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.
The Alamo (initially called the Mission San Antonio de Valero) was
constructed in present-day San Antonio by Spanish immigrants in
1718. Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led an assault
on the Alamo Mission on February 23, 1836, after it had been
seized by insurgent Texan troops in December. Around 1,000 Mexican
troops stormed the improvised fort and began mounting artillery.
The two forces exchanged gunfire over the following two weeks,
although there were minimal losses. Even though they were
significantly outnumbered, co-commanders William Travis and James
Bowie insisted on staying put. Doctors and farmers were among the
volunteers guarding the Alamo, including Davy Crockett who was a
member of the Tennessee militia. On March 6, just before daybreak,
the last onslaught occurred. The north wall was broken, and
Mexican forces surged into the enclosure, rousing many of the
Texans within. The fight spanned 90 minutes, with considerable
hand-to-hand action involved. Bowie, Travis, and Crockett were all
killed, however, accounts dispute as to how and when they were
killed. Some Texans are said to have surrendered, but Santa Anna
ordered the execution of all detainees. Only a few people,
primarily women, and children made it out alive. Some hundred
Mexicans are said to have died, according to historians. From
March through May, Mexican soldiers controlled the fort, however
on April 21, Sam Houston and his men overcame Santa Anna's army at
San Jacinto. They screamed "Remember the Alamo" as they
stormed, and Houston's triumph ensured Texas independence. Texas
was annexed by the United States almost a decade after in 1845.
The U.S. Army stationed troops and supplies in the fort for many
years after that. The state of Texas purchased the Alamo in 1883
and eventually acquired the property rights to the surrounding
lands, which totaled about four acres. The Alamo attracts roughly
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March 6, 1475: #BOTD: #HBD! Michelangelo,
Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet and genius of the High
Renaissance (d. February 18, 1564) is #born in Caprese, Italy in
the Republic of Florence. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni, more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo,
exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western
art. Considered by some the greatest living artist during his
lifetime, he has since been described as one of the greatest
artists of all time. Despite making few forays beyond the arts,
his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often
considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance
man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the
Medici, Leonardo da Vinci. A number of Michelangelo's works of
painting, sculpture and architecture rank among the most famous in
existence. His output in these fields was prodigious; given the
sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches and
reminiscences, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th
century. He sculpted two of his best-known works, the Pieta and
David, before the age of thirty. Despite holding a low opinion of
painting, he also created two of the most influential frescoes in
the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar
wall. His design of the Laurentian Library pioneered Mannerist
architecture. At the age of 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo
the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. He
transformed the plan so that the western end was finished to his
design, as was the dome, with some modification, after his death.
Michelangelo was the first Western artist whose biography was
published while he was alive - in fact, two biographies were
published during his lifetime. One of them, by Giorgio Vasari,
proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended that of any artist
living or dead, and was "supreme in not one art alone but in
all three". In his lifetime, Michelangelo was often called Il
Divino ("the divine one"). His contemporaries often
admired his terribilita - his ability to instil a sense of awe.
Attempts by subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's
impassioned, highly personal style resulted in Mannerism, the next
major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.
Michelangelo died in Rome in 1564, at the age of 88. His body was
taken from Rome for interment at the Basilica of Santa Croce,
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1619: #BOTD: #HBD! Cyrano de
Bergerac, French novelist, playwright, epistolarian (the author of
a written message conveyed from one person or group of people to
another through a medium), and duelist (d. July 28, 1655) is #born
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac in Paris, France. Savinien II de
Cyrano was the son of Abel I de Cyrano, lord of Mauvieres,
(156X-1648), counsel (avocat) of the Parliament of Paris, and
Esperance Bellanger (1586-164X), daughter of the deceased nobleman
Estienne Bellanger, Counsellor of the King and Treasurer of his
Finances. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the
libertine literature of the first half of the 17th century. Today,
he is best known as the inspiration for Edmond Rostand's most
noted drama, Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), which, although it
includes elements of his life, also contains invention and myth.
Since the 1970s, there has been a resurgence in the study of
Cyrano, demonstrated in the abundance of theses, essays, articles
and biographies published in France and elsewhere. Cyrano's short
life is poorly documented. Certain significant chapters of his
life are known only from the Preface of "The Other World:
Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (French:
L'Autre monde ou les etats et empires de la Lune), the first of
three satirical novels written by Cyrano de Bergerac, published in
1657, nearly two years after his death, which along with its
companion work "The States and Empires of the Sun" is
considered one of the earliest published science fiction stories;
Arthur C. Clarke credited the book with the first description of
rocket-powered spaceflight, and with the invention of the ramjet.
Were it not for Henri Le Bret, de Bergerac's childhood friend, who
had "The States And Empires Of The Moon" published, and
who wrote the biographical information about de Begerac in it, his
country childhood, his military engagement, the injuries it
caused, his prowess as a swordsman, the circumstances of his death
and his supposed final conversion would have remained unknown.
Since 1862, when French author and historian Auguste Jal revealed
that the "Lord of Bergerac" was Parisian and not Gascon,
research in parish registries and notarial records by a small
number of researchers, in particular Madeleine Alcover of Rice
University, has enabled the public to know more about his
genealogy, his family, his home in Paris and those of some of his
friends, research that has also revealed no new documents that
support or refute the essentials of Le Bret's account or fill the
gaps in his narrative. Edmond Rostand's play "Cyrano de
Bergerac" suggests that de Bergerac died of injures caused by
a falling wooden beam in 1654 while entering the house of his
patron, the Duc D'Arpajon. However the academic and editor of
Cyrano's works Madeleine Alcover uncovered a contemporary text
which suggests an attack on the carriage of Guy Armand de Gramont,
Count (then Duke) of Guiche, a bisexual French nobleman,
adventurer and one of the greatest playboys of the 17th century.
In that attack, a member of his household was injured, and it is
supposed that person is de Bergerac. It is as yet inconclusive
whether or not Cyrano's death was a result of the injury, or an
unspecified disease. de Bergerac died over a year later on July
28, 1655, aged 36, at the house of his cousin, Pierre De Cyrano,
in Sannois, Paris, France. There is strong evidence to support the
theory that his death was actually a result of a botched
assassination attempt as well as further damage to his health
caused by a period of confinement in a private asylum,
orchestrated by his enemies, who succeeded in enlisting the help
of his own brother Abel de Cyrano. He was buried in a convent
church on the Rue de Charonne, in Sannois, Paris, one of the
oldest quarters of the city, according to an October 24, 1908
report by The New York Times that cited M. Lampau, Secretary of
the commission of Old Paris, as its source. That New York Times
report went on to state that the convent, along with other
buildings in the area, had just been torn down, and that "all
traces of the place where he was buried have disappeared and some
of those who have been interested in the subject are doubtful
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March 6, 1775: Spirituality: Fraternal
Organizations: Freemasonry (Masonry): Freemasonry In The United
States: African-American Fraternal Orders: Prince Hall
Freemasonry: Raisings: -- Prince Hall, African American
abolitionist called "The Father Of Civil Rights", leader
of the free black community in Boston, founder of Prince Hall
Freemasonry who lobbied for education rights for African American
children and was active in the Back-To-Africa Movement (b. c.
1735, c. 1748 or September 12, 1748; traditional birthdate
September 14 - December 4, 1807) is raised a Master Mason. Prince
Hall mentioned in his writings that New England was his homeland.
The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in its Proceedings
of 1906, opted for 1738, relying on a letter from Reverend Jeremy
Belknap, a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. A
mural at the Grand Hall Lodge in Dorchester, MA states he was born
in 1735. According to the Medford Historical Society & Museum,
sources state he was born on September 12, 1748 in Bridgetown,
Barbados to Thomas Prince Hall, an Englishmen, and a free Colored
woman of French descent, and that in Barbados, the Hall family was
a very well respected family and its members were known as "pious
persons of excellent character." Hall's early years are also
unclear; historian Charles H. Wesley theorized that by age 11
Prince Hall was enslaved (or in service) to Boston tanner William
Hall, and by 1770 was a free, literate man. It was through William
Hall that Prince learned how to process and dress leather.
Historian David L. Gray states that he was unable to find an
official historical record of the manumission. Hall, identified as
able to read and write, may have been self-taught or, like other
enslaved people and free blacks in New England, he may have had
assistance. Hall joined the Congregational Church in 1762 at 27
years of age. He married an enslaved woman named Sarah Ritchie (or
Ritchery) who died in 1769. It has been asserted that Hall then
married Flora Gibbs of Gloucester in 1770; however David Gray
states he was married for a second time to Sylvia (Zilpha) Ward
Hall. An article written about Prince for the PBS documentary
Africans In America states that Prince Hall married a woman named
Delia, a servant outside William Hall's household, and had a son
named Primus in 1756; however, David L. Gray asserts that there is
no record of a marriage of Prince Hall to Delia, nor record of a
son, Primus. In Boston, Hall worked as a peddler, caterer, and
leatherworker, owning his own leather shop. It is known that in
April 1777, he created five leather drumheads for an artillery
regiment of Boston. Hall was a homeowner who voted and paid taxes.
As a leader, Prince Hall devoted himself to gaining a place for
New Endland's enslaved and free blacks in Freemasonry, education,
and the military, which were some of the most crucial spheres of
society in his time. Hall is considered the founder of "Black
Freemasonry" in the United States, known today as Prince Hall
Freemasonry. Hall formed the African Grand Lodge of North America.
Prince Hall was unanimously elected its Grand Master, and served
until his death in 1807. Prince Hall Freemasonry is a branch of
North American Freemasonry for African Americans founded by Prince
Hall on September 29, 1784. There are two main branches of Prince
Hall Freemasonry: the independent State Prince Hall Grand Lodges,
most of which are recognized by White Masonic jurisdictions, and
those under the jurisdiction of the National Grand Lodge. Prince
Hall Freemasonry is the oldest and largest (300,000+ initiated
members) predominantly African American fraternity in the nation.
Prince Hall died in Boston, Massachusetts; according to biographer
David Gray, newspaper accounts showed that he died on this date,
and was buried three days later. However, the precised details of
his death (as well as his birth) are in dispute. A tribute
monument erected on June 24, 1835 in his name next to his grave
marker at Copp's Hill Burying Ground, a cemetery overlooking the
Charlstown naval yard in Boston's North End where other notable
Bostonians from the colonial era are buried, bears the
inscription: "Here lies ye body of Prince Hall, first Grand
Master of the colored Grand Lodge in Mass. Died Dec. 7, 1807"
(thousands of other African Americans who lived in the "New
Guinea" community are buried alongside Snowhill Street in
unmarked graves at the base of Copp's Hill). The Medford
Historical Society & Museum of Boston states that "after
many years of service, Prince Hall died on December 26, 1827".
Death notices published on December 7, 1807, state that he died at
the age of 72, which indicates he was born in 1735. A deposition
dated August 31, 1807 records his age as "about 70 years",
suggesting his date of birth was about 1737. A letter written in
1795 by Reverend Jeremy Belknap, a founder of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, places Halls' birth in 1737 or 1738. Belknap
bases this year of birth upon Prince Hall's stated age when Hall
and Belknap met. Prince Hall's date of birth, place of birth and
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March 6, 1820: The United States: The
History Of The United States: United States Expansionism: Origins
Of The American Civil War: The Missouri Compromise (The Compromise
Of 1820): -- The Missouri Compromise, United States federal
legislation that balanced desires of northern states to prevent
expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states
to expand it, is signed into law by President James Monroe. Three
days prior, on March 3, 1820, it had been passed by The 16th
United States Congress, a date since observed annually as Missouri
Compromise Day. The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a
slave state and Maine as a free state and declared a policy of
prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands
north of the 36dg 30min parallel. Earlier, in February 1819,
Representative James Tallmadge Jr., a Democratic-Republican
(Jeffersonian Republican) from New York, had submitted two
amendments to Missouri's request for statehood that included
restrictions on slavery. Southerners objected to any bill that
imposed federal restrictions on slavery and believed that it was a
state issue, as settled by the Constitution. However, with the
Senate evenly split at the opening of the debates, both sections
possessing 11 states, the admission of Missouri as a slave state
would give the South an advantage. Northern critics including
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans objected to the expansion
of slavery into the Louisiana Purchase territory on the
Constitutional inequalities of the three-fifths rule, which
conferred Southern representation in the federal government
derived from a state's slave population. Jeffersonian Republicans
in the North ardently maintained that a strict interpretation of
the Constitution required that Congress act to limit the spread of
slavery on egalitarian grounds. "[Northern] Republicans
rooted their antislavery arguments, not on expediency, but in
egalitarian morality." "The Constitution [said northern
Jeffersonians], strictly interpreted, gave the sons of the
founding generation the legal tools to hasten [the] removal [of
slavery], including the refusal to admit additional slave states."
When free-soil Maine offered its petition for statehood, the
Senate quickly linked the Maine and Missouri bills, making Maine
admission a condition for Missouri entering the Union as a slave
state. Senator Jesse B. Thomas of Illinois added a compromise
proviso that excluded slavery from all remaining lands of the
Louisiana Purchase north of the 36dg 30min parallel. The combined
measures passed the Senate, only to be voted down in the House by
Northern representatives who held out for a free Missouri. Speaker
of the House Henry Clay of Kentucky, in a desperate bid to break
the deadlock, divided the Senate bills. Clay and his
pro-compromise allies succeeded in pressuring half of the
anti-restrictionist Southerners in the House to submit to the
passage of the Thomas proviso and maneuvered a number of
restrictionist northerners in the House to acquiesce in supporting
Missouri as a slave state. While the Missouri question in the 15th
Congress ended in stalemate on March 4, 1819, with the House
sustaining its northern anti-slavery position and the Senate
blocking a state that restricted slavery, it succeeded in the 16th
Congress. The Missouri Compromise was very controversial, and many
worried that the country had become lawfully divided along
sectarian lines. The Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively repealed the
bill in 1854, and the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional
in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), both of which increased tensions
over slavery and contributed to the American Civil War. The
compromise both delayed the Civil War and sowed its seeds; Thomas
Jefferson writing contemporaneously predicted the line it had
drawn would someday tear the Union apart. 40 years later, the
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March 6, 1831: #BOTD: Philip Sheridan,
career United States Army officer, Union general in the American
Civil War, and United States general during The Indian Wars (d.
August 5, 1888) is #born Philip Henry Sheridan in Albany, New
York, the third child of six of John and Mary Meenagh Sheridan,
Irish Catholic immigrants from the parish of Killinkere in County
Cavan, Ireland; there has been long-time speculation that he may
have been born at sea on the ship his parents emigrated to the
United States aboard. His career was noted for his rapid rise to
major general and his close association with General-in-chief
Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an
infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps
of the Army of the Potomac in the East. In 1864, he defeated
Confederate forces under General Jubal Early in the Shenandoah
Valley and his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the
Valley, called "The Burning" by residents, was one of
the first uses of scorched-earth tactics in the war. In 1865, his
cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in forcing
his surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Sheridan waged total war
on the Native American inhabitants of The United States during The
Indian Wars of the Great Plains. He was also instrumental in the
development and protection of Yellowstone National Park, both as a
soldier and a private citizen. In 1883, Sheridan was appointed
General-In-Chief Of The U.S. Army. In 1888 Sheridan suffered a
series of massive heart attacks two months after sending his
memoirs to his publisher. After his first heart attack, the U.S.
Congress during the term of President Grover Cleveland quickly
passed legislation to promote him to General Of The Army on June
1, 1888, and he received the news from a congressional delegation
with joy, despite his pain. His family moved him from the heat of
Washington to his summer cottage in the Nonquitt enclave of
Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where he died of heart failure on August
5, 1888. His body was returned to Washington and he was buried on
a hillside facing the capital city near Arlington House in
Arlington National Cemetery. The sculpture on the marker was
executed by English sculptor Samuel James Kitson. The burial
helped elevate Arlington to national prominence. His wife Irene
never remarried, saying, "I would rather be the widow of Phil
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March 6, 1857: Slavery: Slavery In The
United States: Landmark Court Decisions In The United States:
Landmark Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) Decisions:
Dred Scott v. Sandford: -- The Supreme Court Of The United States
rules that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the
U.S.], and sold as slaves", whether enslaved or free, could
not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in
federal court, and that the federal government had no power to
regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the
creation of the United States. This decision is unanimously
denounced by modern scholars. Many contemporary lawyers, and most
modern legal scholars, consider the ruling regarding slavery in
the territories to be obiter dictum, a ruling "said in
passing", and not a binding precedent. Bernard Schwartz says
it "stands first in any list of the worst Supreme Court
decisions - Chief Justice C.E. Hughes called it the Court's
greatest self-inflicted wound". Junius P. Rodriguez says it
is "universally condemned as the U.S. Supreme Court's worst
decision". Historian David Thomas Konig says it was
"unquestionably, our court's worst decision ever". The
decision immediately spurred vehement dissent from anti-slavery
elements in the North, and proved to be an indirect catalyst for
the American Civil War. It was functionally superseded by the
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1906: #BOTD: #HBD! Lou Costello,
American actor of radio, stage, television and film and burlesque
comedian (d. March 3, 1959) is #born Louis Francis Cristillo in
Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Helen Rege and Sebastiano
Cristillo, a silk weaver and insurance sales agent. His father was
Italian from Caserta in Campania, Italy, and his mother was an
American of Italian, French and Irish ancestry. Lou Costello, is
best remembered for the comedy double act of Abbott and Costello,
with Bud Abbott. They started in burlesque (a literary, dramatic
or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the
manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of
their subjects) before showcasing their routines on radio, on
Broadway, and in Hollywood films between 1940-1956. Costello
played a bumbling character opposite Abbott's straight man. He was
known for the catchphrases "Heeeeyyy, Abbott!" and "I'm
a baaaaad boy!". Lou Costello died of a heart attackat
Doctors Hospital in Beverly Hills, California, three days before
his 53rd birthday. Sources conflict on the circumstances of his
last day and final words. According to some accounts, he told
visitors that the strawberry ice cream soda that he had just
finished was "the best I ever tasted" and then died. By
other reports, including those of several contemporaneous
obituaries, the ice-cream soda exchange occurred earlier in the
day; later, after his wife and friends had departed, he asked his
nurse to adjust his position in bed just before suffering a fatal
cardiac arrest. After a funeral Mass at his Catholic parish, St.
Francis de Sales in Sherman Oaks, California Costello was interred
at the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles on March 8. His wife
Anne died from an apparent heart attack nine months later on
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! Ed McMahon,
American combat Naval aviator, announcer, game show host,
comedian, actor, singer, sidekick and second banana (d. June 23,
2009) is #born Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. in Detroit, Michigan.
He earned his carrier landing qualifications and was designated as
a Naval Aviator, and became a Marine Corps flight instructor in
F4U Corsair fighters for two years, finally being ordered to the
Pacific Fleet in 1945. However, his orders were canceled after the
atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing Japan's
unconditional surrender. McMahon and Johnny Carson began their
association in their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You
Trust?, running from 1957 to 1962. McMahon then made his famous
thirty-year mark as Carson's sidekick, announcer and second banana
on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to
1992. McMahon also hosted the original Star Search from 1983 to
1995, co-hosted TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes with Dick
Clark from 1982 to 1998, presented sweepstakes for American Family
Publishers), annually co-hosted the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon from
1973 to 2008 and anchored the team of NBC personalities conducting
the network's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
during the 1970s and 80s. McMahon appeared in several films,
including The Incident, Fun With Dick and Jane, Full Moon High and
Butterfly, as well as briefly in the film version of the TV sitcom
Bewitched and has also performed in numerous television
commercials. According to Entertainment Weekly, McMahon is
considered one of the greatest "sidekicks". Ed McMahon
died shortly after midnight at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical
Center in Los Angeles, California, aged 86 years. His nurse, Julie
Koehne, RN, stated he went peacefully. No formal cause of death
was given, but McMahon's publicist attributed his death to the
many health problems he had suffered over his final months. On
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! Gordon
Cooper, nicknamed Gordo, American colonel, aerospace engineer,
test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and one of the seven
original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space
program of the United States, ufologist and cutup (d. October 4,
2004) is #born Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Cooper's accomplishments, along with his widely noted and
appealing personality, were depicted in the 1983 film The Right
Stuff in which he was portrayed by actor Dennis Quaid. Cooper
worked closely with the production company on this project and
reportedly, every line uttered by Quaid is attributable to
Cooper's recollection. Quaid met with Cooper before the casting
call and rapidly learned his mannerisms. Quaid also had his hair
cut and dyed to match how the former astronaut's hair looked
during the 1950s and 1960s. Cooper was later depicted in the 1998
HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, in which his character
was played by Robert C. Treveiler. Cooper appeared as himself in
an episode of the television series CHiPs and during the early
1980s made regular call-in appearances on Late Night with David
Letterman. The Thunderbirds character Gordon Tracy was named after
him. Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in
1963. He was the first American to sleep in space during that
34-hour mission and was the last American to be launched alone to
conduct an entirely solo orbital mission. In 1965, Cooper flew as
Command Pilot of Gemini 5. Cooper was outspoken in his belief in
the existence of UFOs, and admitted to having had a number of UFO
sightings. Cooper claimed to have seen his first UFO while flying
over West Germany in 1951, although he denied reports he had seen
a UFO during his Mercury flight. In 1957, when Cooper was 30 and a
Captain, he was assigned to Fighter Section of the Experimental
Flight Test Engineering Division at Edwards AFB in California. On
May 3 of that year, he had a crew setting up an Askania
Cinetheodolite precision landing system on a dry lake bed.
According to his accounts, Cooper realized that these men, who on
a regular basis have seen experimental aircraft flying and landing
around them as part of their job of filming those aircraft, were
clearly worked up and unnerved. They explained how a saucer
hovered over them, landed 50 yards away from them using three
extended landing gears and then took off as they approached for a
closer look. They took photographs and film. There was a special
Pentagon number to call to report such incidents: called and soon
was reported up the chain of command until he was instructed by a
general to have the film developed, but to make no prints of it,
and send it right away in a locked courier pouch. As he had not
been instructed to not look at the negatives before sending them,
he did. He said the quality of the photography was excellent as
would be expected from the experienced photographers who took
them. What he saw was exactly what they had described to him. He
expected that there would be a follow up investigation since an
aircraft of unknown origin had landed in a highly classified
military installation, but nothing was ever said of the incident
again. He was never able to track down what happened to those
photos. He held claim until his death that the U.S. government was
indeed covering up information about UFOs. In his memoirs, Cooper
wrote he had seen other unexplained aircraft several times during
his career, and also said hundreds of similar reports had been
made. He further claimed these sightings had been "swept
under the rug" by the U.S. government. Throughout his later
life Cooper expressed repeatedly in interviews he had seen UFOs
and described his recollections for the documentary Out of the
Blue. Gordon Cooper died at age 77 from heart failure at his home
in Ventura, California. His remains were cremated, and the ashes
were given to his widow Suzan Taylor. A portion of Cooper's ashes
(along with those of Star Trek actor James Doohan and 206 others)
was launched from New Mexico on April 29, 2007, on a sub-orbital
memorial flight by a privately owned UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL
sounding rocket. The capsule carrying the ashes fell back toward
Earth as planned; it was lost in mountainous landscape. The search
was obstructed by bad weather, but after a few weeks the capsule
was found, and the ashes it carried were returned to the families.
The ashes were then launched on the Explorers orbital mission on
August 3, 2008, but were lost when the Falcon 1 rocket failed two
minutes into the flight. On May 22, 2012, another portion of
Cooper's ashes was among those of 308 people included on the
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 that was bound for the International
Space Station. This flight, using the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and
the Dragon capsule, was uncrewed. The second stage and the burial
canister remained in the initial orbit that the Dragon C2+ was
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1943: Art: Art History: The
Cultural History Of The United States: Visual Art Of The United
States (American Art): First Publications: The Four Freedoms
(Rockwell): -- Norman Rockwell publishes Freedom from Want, also
known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas,
the third of the four oil paintings of the Four Freedoms, in The
Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as
part of the Four Freedoms series. This painting created an
enduring niche in the social fabric of America, emblematic of what
is now known as the "Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving". The
Four Freedoms is a series of four 1943 oil paintings by the
American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings - Freedom of
Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from
Fear - are each approximately 45.75 inches (116.2 cm) x 35.5
inches (90 cm), and are now in the Norman Rockwell Museum in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The four freedoms refer to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt's January 1941 Four Freedoms State Of The
Union Address in which he identified essential human rights that
should be universally protected. The theme was incorporated into
the Atlantic Charter, and became part of the charter of the United
Nations. The paintings were reproduced in The Saturday Evening
Post for over four consecutive weeks in 1943, alongside essays by
prominent thinkers of the day. They became the highlight of a
touring exhibition sponsored by The Post and the U.S. Department
of the Treasury. The exhibition and accompanying sales drives of
war bonds raised over 132M USD. This series has been the
cornerstone of retrospective art exhibits presenting the career of
Rockwell, who was the most widely known and popular commercial
artist of the mid-20th century, but did not achieve critical
acclaim. These are his best-known works, and by some accounts
became the most widely distributed paintings. At one time they
were commonly displayed in post offices, schools, clubs, railroad
stations, and a variety of public and semi-public buildings. On
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Today, March 6, 2026
( #JCKaelin here: When I first saw Mary
Wilson, one of my earliest and most vivid memories, she was on the
TV show #Shindig with The Supremes in 1965, when I was just 4
years old. I was transfixed gazing down upon her at a 45 degree
angle standing beside our vintage TV set, thinking she looked so
pretty and so graceful - but even at that young age, I knew my
fascination was much more than just that. My aunt became keenly
aware of my motionless and stunned fascination, and she shouted to
the rest of her many siblings "Wow! Looks like Jimmy likes
black girls!" Well, what's for a white guy not to love about
black girls?!?!? It was not until many years later, when I became
a historical media publisher of some note, that I discovered most
certainly why I was transfixed gazing at her way back then: she
was to become for all of us, and for me particularly, the
unofficial, but very certain, historian of Motown! So much of what
we know know about Motown and all the people involved with the
most successful black music label in history comes from her quiet
as a pretty wise owl self - not only the history of it all, but
even more importantly, her fine insights into what it all meant.
What a woman! God bless you & keep you in the celestial choir,
Mary Wilson, and I'll see you again, day after day, as I have done
for many years, whenever I happily deal with the history of Motown
you bequethed us! :D ) ========= March 6, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Mary
Wilson, African American singer and both founding member and
longest member of The Supremes (d. February 8, 2021) is #born to
Sam, a butcher, and Johnnie Mae Wilson in Greenville, Mississippi.
Mary Wilson remained with the group following the departures of
other original members, Florence Ballard in 1967 and Diana Ross in
1970. Following Wilson's own departure in 1977, the group
disbanded. Wilson has since released three solo albums, five
singles and two best-selling autobiographies, Dreamgirl: My Life
As a Supreme, a record setter for sales in its genre, and Supreme
Faith: Someday We'll Be Together; both books later were released
as an updated combination. Continuing a successful career as a
concert performer, Wilson also became a musicians' rights activist
as well as a musical theater performer and organizer of various
museum displays of the Supremes' famed costumes. Wilson was
inducted along with Ross and Ballard (as members of the Supremes)
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Mary Wilson died in
her sleep from hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
at her home in Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, at the
age of 76. Motown founder Berry Gordy said he was "extremely
shocked and saddened" by the news of her death and said
Wilson was "quite a star in her own right and over the years
continued to work hard to boost the legacy of the Supremes."
Diana Ross reflected on Wilson's death, posting on Twitter: "I
am reminded that each day is a gift. I have so many wonderful
memories of our time together. 'The Supremes' will live on in our
hearts." Wilson was interred next to her son Rafael on March
16, 2021, at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. On
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! David
Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist is #born David
Jon Gilmour in Cambridge, England. David Jon Gilmour CBE is best
known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink
Floyd. He joined the group as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in
1968, effectively as a replacement for founder member Syd Barrett,
who was dismissed from the band shortly afterwards. Pink Floyd
subsequently achieved international success with the concept
albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and
The Wall. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most
critically acclaimed and best-selling acts in the history of
popular music; it was estimated that by 2012 the band had sold
over 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million units
sold in the United States. Following the departure of another
founding member, Roger Waters, Gilmour assumed leadership of Pink
Floyd in 1985. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour
has produced a variety of artists, for example The Dream Academy,
and has had a solo career which has included four studio albums:
David Gilmour, About Face, On an Island, and Rattle That Lock.
Gilmour was responsible for bringing singer/songwriter Kate Bush
to public attention. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted
into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and the UK Music
Hall of Fame in 2005. In 2005, Gilmour was made a Commander of the
Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to music. He
was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution title at the 2008 Q
Awards. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 14 in
their list of the greatest guitarists of all time. Additionally,
Gilmour was voted number 36 in the greatest voices in rock by
Planet Rock listeners in 2009. He has taken part in projects to
promote international charities related to such subjects as animal
rights, homelessness, poverty, environmentalism, wildlife
conservation, human rights, and music therapy. He has married
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March 6, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Kiki Dee,
English pop singer singer and songwriter is #born Pauline Matthews
in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Known for her
blue-eyed soul vocals, she was the first female singer from the UK
to sign with Motown's Tamla Records. Dee is best known for her
1973 hit "Amoureuse", her 1974 hit "I've Got the
Music in Me" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", her
1976 duet with Elton John, which went to number 1 on both the UK
Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her 1981 single
"Star" became the theme song for the talent show
Opportunity Knocks when it was revived by the BBC in 1987. In
1993, she performed another duet with John for his Duets album, a
cover version of Cole Porter's "True Love", which
reached number 2 in the UK. During her career, she has released 40
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March 6, 1953: #BOTD: #HBD! Carolyn
Porco, reverently nicknamed "The Saturn Lady", American
planetary scientist, academic and beauty, best known for her work
in the exploration of the outer solar system, is #born Carolyn C.
Porco in the Bronx, New York City. Carolyn Porco began her imaging
work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging science team on the
Cassini mission in orbit around Saturn and September 15, 2017 when
Cassini was de-orbited to burn up in Saturn's upper atmosphere.
She is an expert on planetary rings and the Saturnian moon,
Enceladus. She has co-authored more than 110 scientific papers on
subjects ranging from the spectroscopy of Uranus and Neptune, the
interstellar medium, the photometry of planetary rings,
satellite/ring interactions, computer simulations of planetary
rings, the thermal balance of Triton's polar caps, heat flow in
the interior of Jupiter, and a suite of results on the atmosphere,
satellites, and rings of Saturn from the Cassini imaging
experiment. In 2013, Cassini data confirmed a 1993 prediction by
Porco and Mark Marley that acoustic oscillations within the body
of Saturn are responsible for creating particular features in the
rings of Saturn. Porco was founder of The Day the Earth Smiled,
the July 19, 2013 date on which the Cassini spacecraft turned to
image Saturn, its entire ring system, and the Earth, during an
eclipse of the Sun. She was also responsible for the epitaph and
proposal to honor the late renowned planetary geologist Eugene
Shoemaker by sending his cremains to the Moon aboard the Lunar
Prospector spacecraft in 1998. A frequent public speaker, Porco
has given two popular lectures at TED as well as the opening
speech for Pangea Day, a May 2008 global broadcast coordinated
from six cities around the world, in which she described the
cosmic context for human existence. Porco has also won a number of
awards and honors for her contributions to science and the public
sphere; for instance, in 2009, New Statesman named her as one of
'The 50 People Who Matter Today.' In 2010 she was awarded the Carl
Sagan Medal, presented by the American Astronomical Society for
Excellence in the Communication of Science to the Public. And in
2012, she was named one of the 25 most influential people in space
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1961: The American Civil Rights
Movement: Affirmative Action: Affirmative Action In The United
States: Executive Orders: Executive Order 10925: -- The policy of
Affirmative Action is legally instituted for the first time in
American history with Executive Order 10925, signed by President
John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961, requiring government
contractors, except in special circumstances, to "take
affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that
employees are treated during employment without regard to their
race, creed, color, or national origin". It further
established the President's Committee on Equal Employment
Opportunity (PCEEO), which was chaired by then Vice President
Lyndon Johnson, the same man who as President signed 11246.
Executive Order 11246 established requirements for
non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part
of U.S. government contractors. It "prohibits federal
contractors and federally assisted construction contractors and
subcontractors, who do over 10K USD in Government business in one
year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." It also
requires contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure
that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated
during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion,
sex or national origin." On October 13, 1967 Executive Order
11375 amended Executive Order 11246 adding the category "sex"
to the anti-discrimination provisions; on July 21, 2014, Executive
Order 13672 amended Executive Order 11246 and Executive Order
11478 to change "sexual orientation" to "sexual
orientation, gender identity". On September 24, 1965,
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246,
requiring government contractors to "take affirmative action"
toward prospective minority employees in all aspects of hiring and
employment. Contractors were required to take specific measures to
ensure equality in hiring, and had to document these efforts. On
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1964: The History Of Sports: The
History Of Sports In The United States: The History Of Boxing: The
History Of Heavyweight Boxing: -- Nation Of Islam (NOI) leader
Elijah Muhammad officially announces in a radio address his giving
boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali, stating "This
Clay name has no meaning... Muhammad Ali is what I will give him
as long as he believes in Allah and follows me", naming him
after the Ottoman founder of modern Egypt who ruled from 1805 to
1848 and founder of The Muhammad Ali Dynasty that ruled Egypt
until the revolution of 1952 when King Farouk was overthrown by
the Free Officers Movement led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel
Nasser, establishing the Republic of Egypt. On February 26, 1964,
the day after his victory in the heavyweight boxing match Sonny
Liston vs. Cassius Clay I, Cassius Clay, having coverted to Islam,
changed his name to Cassius X, in accordance with the established
naming protocols of The Nation Of Islam.; the change of name from
Cassius X to Muhammad Ali would be a permanent one. On Sale @ 15%
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1975: United States Presidential
Assassination Attempts And Plots: United States Presidential
Assassinations: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy: The Zapruder
Film: -- The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy
is shown for the first time in motion to a national TV audience on
Good Night America, a late-night TV program hosted by Geraldo
Rivera, by Robert J. Groden, author on the JFK assassination and
the photo-optics technician who worked with the film for Life
magazine, and Dick Gregory, the African American comedian and
activist who was an outspoken critic of the findings of the Warren
Commission. The Zapruder film is a silent, color motion picture
sequence shot by private citizen Abraham Zapruder with a
home-movie camera, as U.S. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade
passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22,
1963. It unexpectedly captured the President's assassination.
Although it is not the only film of the shooting, it has been
called the most complete, giving a relatively clear view from a
somewhat elevated position on the side from which the president's
head wound is visible. It was an important part of the Warren
Commission hearings and all subsequent investigations of the
assassination, and is one of the most studied pieces of film in
history. Of greatest notoriety is the film's capture of the fatal
shot to President Kennedy's head when his presidential limousine
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Today, March 6, 2026
March 6, 1981: Finales: Television
Finales: -- Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time after 19
years as anchorman presenting the CBS Evening News. Walter Leland
Cronkite Jr., American print and broadcast journalist, news
anchor, documentary host and actor (1916-2009) was often cited
during the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s as "the
most trusted man in America" after being so named in an
opinion poll. He was a leading correspondent for United Press
International during World War II. He reported many events from
1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg
trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings;
Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of
President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King
Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his
extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury
to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only
non-NASA recipient of an Ambassador of Exploration award. Cronkite
is well known for his departing catchphrase "And that's the
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March 6: National White Chocolate
Cheesecake Day: -- A day dedicated to a unique version of
everyone's favorite dessert. Cheesecake is a sweet dessert made
with soft fresh, cream, or cottage cheese, eggs, and sugar, on a
crust of crushed graham crackers, cookies, pastry, or sponge cake.
Cheesecakes can either be baked or frozen until the cheese and
other components settle into a solid piece. The dessert is often
served topped with fruit, chocolate, compote, or whipped cream.
The most common cheesecake flavors are blueberry and strawberry,
but today is about their less popular, most special sibling, the
white chocolate cheesecake. Ancient records show that the early
Aztec and Mayan people consumed chocolate in religious rituals.
Not the chocolate we are familiar with today, but the cocoa bean.
Once the early Europeans were introduced to chocolate, many
consumed it as a beverage, and after gaining popularity, people
started experimenting with many recipes. Soon after, chocolate
cake enjoyed unparalleled popularity in the 19th century, and
people started using chocolate in more baked goods. Confectioners
realized that chocolate in desserts had an immense marketing
value. White chocolate, on the other hand, appeared much later.
The Nestle company began making white chocolate in the 1930s.
Meanwhile, in North America, Kuno Baedeker developed white
chocolate in 1945. In the strictest sense of the term, white
chocolate isn't chocolate at all. It is made from cocoa butter,
sugar, milk solids, and sometimes, vanilla. It does not contain
cocoa solids, which are found in milk chocolate and dark
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restaurant called Lindy's, combining cream cheese and cake into
one delicious treat. While the restaurant shut down in the 1960s,
the owner of the restaurant released the recipe to the public
through the magazine Duncan Hines which acclaimed restaurants
consult for their food innovations. Since then, the recipe has
traveled far and wide, and today almost every restaurant serves
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6: National Dress Day: -- An annual
day of reflection on memorable events when we recall dearest
memories by what we were wearing. Dresses have been worn for
hundreds of years. Today, they come in a variety of shapes and
designs. From long, mini, fit, and flare to the ball gown and
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6: Day Of Memorial And Respect For
Veterans (Kosovo): -- An annual holiday that seeks to immortalize
those who died fighting for the nation's independence and honor
veterans who continue to serve the country. The event urges
citizens of Kosovo to show their respect for active army personnel
who are still serving and those who have served their due. Day Of
Memorial And Respect For Veterans is celebrated widely in Kosovo,
although it is not a public holiday. Businesses and schools still
have regular opening hours. People go to the cemetery and place
flowers on the graves of their loved ones. Parades and fireworks
displays add to the festive atmosphere. Officially the Republic of
Kosovo, Kosovo is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. The
Ottomans ruled Kosovo for over four centuries until Serbia gained
control of the region during the First Balkan War from 1912 to
1913. During World War II, Nazi Germany temporarily assumed
control over Kosovo until the end of the war. After World War II,
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Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (S.F.R.Y.), having closely equal
rights as the six constituent Socialist Republics of the S.F.R.Y.
In the late 1980s, a fierce dictator came into power. By 1989, he
removed Kosovo's autonomy and imposed direct control. The forced
government initiated the Kosovo war that started on February 28,
1998, until June 11, 1999. The "Kosovo Liberation Army,"
a Kosovo Albanian rebel group, fought back against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia soldiers, which controlled Kosovo before
the war. The war ended when the U.N. Security Council intervened
and adopted Resolution 1244, which halted Belgrade's governance
over Kosovo in 1999. Subsequently, Kosovo was placed under the
administration of the United Nations Interim Administration
Mission in Kosovo (U.N.M.I.K.), and a NATO peacekeeping force was
authorized. On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence
from Serbia. Although 110 countries recognize Kosovo as a
sovereign, some like Serbia, Russia, China, Brazil, India, and
Spain do not. In the central town of Morine, Kosovo, a war
memorial was dedicated to memorialize those who died in the
1998-99 conflict with Serbia. The origin date of this Kosovo
holiday is unclear. However, its purpose remains to immortalize
the veterans who died defending their country and those still
serving the nation.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1935: #DOTD: #RIP: Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Captain and Brevet Colonel of the
20th Massachusetts Infantry, American Civil War veteran, lawyer,
and jurist (b. March 8, 1841) #dies of pneumonia in Washington,
D.C., two days short of his 94th birthday. He was the last living
justice of the Fuller Court, the Supreme Court of the United
States from 1888 to 1910 when Melville Fuller served as the eighth
Chief Justice of the United States; he had been between 1925 and
1932 the last justice of that Court to remain on the bench. He is
buried in Arlington National Cemetery in the same tomb as his wife
Fanny, who died six years earlier. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.,
known as "Wendell" in his youth, was born in Boston,
Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver
Wendell Holmes Sr. and Amelia Lee Jackson Holmes. Both his parents
were of English descent, and all his ancestors had come to North
America from England during the early colonial period as part of
the Puritan migration to New England.[9] His mother opposed
slavery and fulfilled her domestic role as traditionally
understood.[10] Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston
intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to
the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
other transcendentalists were family friends. Holmes became
lifelong friends with the brothers William James and Henry James
Jr. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmosphere of intellectual
achievement and early on formed the ambition to be a man of
letters like Emerson. He retained an interest in writing poetry
throughout his life. He became a legal scholar who served as an
associate justice of the Supreme Court Of The United States from
1902 to 1932. He is one of the most widely cited U.S. Supreme
Court justices and most influential American common law judges in
history, noted for his long service, pithy opinions-particularly
those on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy-and
deference to the decisions of elected legislatures. Holmes retired
from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest
justice on the Supreme Court. He previously served as a Brevet
Colonel in the American Civil War, in which he was wounded three
times, as an associate justice and chief justice of the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and as Weld Professor of Law
at his alma mater, Harvard Law School. His positions, distinctive
personality, and writing style made him a popular figure,
especially with American progressives. During his tenure on the
U.S. Supreme Court, to which he was appointed by President
Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, he supported the constitutionality of
state economic regulation and came to advocate broad freedom of
speech under the First Amendment, after, in Schenck v. United
States (1919), having upheld for a unanimous court criminal
sanctions against draft protestors with the memorable maxim that
"free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire
in a theatre and causing a panic" and formulating the
groundbreaking "clear and present danger" test. Later
that same year, in his famous dissent in Abrams v. United States
(1919), he wrote that "the best test of truth is the power of
the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the
market. ... That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution.
It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment." He added
that "we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to
check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be
fraught with death...." The University of Chicago Law Review
has identified Holmes as the sixth-most-cited American legal
scholar of all time. Holmes was a legal realist, as summed up in
his maxim, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has
been experience". He was also a moral skeptic and an opponent
of the doctrine of natural law. His jurisprudence and academic
writing influenced much subsequent American legal thinking,
including the judicial consensus upholding New Deal regulatory
law, "sociological jurisprudence in the early twentieth
century, and ... much of Legal Realism a generation later".
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1900: #DOTD: #RIP: Gottlieb
Daimler, German engineer, industrial designer, businessman,
industrialist and pioneer of internal-combustion engines and
automobile development, co-founder of
Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, inventor of the high-speed liquid
petroleum-fueled engine, conidered by many as "the father of
the motorcycle" (b. March 17, 1834) #dies aged 65 in
Cannstatt, an outer city borough of Stuttgart in Wurttemberg,
German Empire (now Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany). He is buried at
the Uff-Kirchhof in Cannstatt. Gottlieb Daimler was born Gottlieb
Wilhelm Daimler in Schorndorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, German
Confederation; the town is also sometimes referred to as Die
Daimlerstadt (German: "The Daimler Town") in his honor.
Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two
inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be
mounted in any kind of locomotion device. In 1883 they designed a
horizontal cylinder layout compressed charge liquid petroleum
engine that fulfilled Daimler's desire for a high speed engine
which could be throttled, making it useful in transportation
applications. This engine was called Daimler's Dream. In 1885 they
designed a vertical cylinder version of this engine which they
subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the first internal
combustion motorcycle which was named the Petroleum Reitwagen
(Riding Car) and, in the next year, to a coach, and a boat.
Daimler called this engine the grandfather clock engine (Standuhr)
because of its resemblance to a large pendulum clock. In 1890,
they converted their partnership into a stock company Daimler
Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, in English - the Daimler Motors
Corporation). They sold their first automobile in 1892. Daimler
fell ill and took a break from the business. Upon his return he
experienced difficulty with the other stockholders that led to his
resignation in 1893. This was reversed in 1894. Maybach resigned
at the same time, and also returned. Daimler died in 1900 and
Wilhelm Maybach quit DMG in 1907.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 2021: #DOTD: #RIP: Lou Ottens,
Dutch engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, known best for
inventing the compact cassette tape and for his work in helping to
develop the compact disc (CD) (b. June 21, 1926) #dies in Duizel,
Netherlands aged 94; no cause of death was provided. Lou Ottens
was born Lodewijk Frederik Ottens in Bellingwolde, a village with
a population of 2,655 people in the municipality Westerwolde in
the Netherlands. Ottens showed an interest in technology and
tinkering from an early age. While in his teens, during World War
II, he constructed a radio that he would use to secretly listen to
broadcasts of Radio Oranje, a Dutch radio programme on the BBC
European Service broadcast to the German-occupied Netherlands. In
order to avoid Nazi jammers, Ottens constructed the radio with a
primitive directional antenna. After the war, Ottens began
attending the Delft University of Technology, where he studied
mechanical engineering. In 1952, Ottens was hired by Philips, a
Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation founded in Eindhoven
that was to becume during Ottn's career-long tenure with the
company a leader in audio equipment, including turntables, tape
recorders, loudspeakers, and the originators of the compact
cassette tape system and the compact disc known popularly as CDs.
In 1960, Ottens became the head of the new product development
department in Hasselt. While in this position, he led the
development of Philips' first portable tape recorder, the EL 3585.
This project proved to be quite successful, with over 1 million
units being sold. Building on the success of the EL 3585, Philips
Hasselt started working on plans to develop a portable cassette
recorder. The goal for this "pocket recorder," as it was
nicknamed, was to be inexpensive and small, with low battery
consumption but reasonable sound quality. Originally, Philips
planned on working with RCA and using their RCA tape cartridge
system cassette, but Ottens found that the dimensions and tape
speed of the set made it not suitable for their desired product.
Philips eventually decided to develop their own cassette, with
RCA's cassette as a starting point. Ottens started the design of
the cassette by cutting a block of wood to fit into his jacket
pocket. This wood block would become the model for what became the
first portable cassette recorder, the EL 3300. Ottens managed a
team of ten or twelve workers who had experience in designing
gramophones and tape recorders to develop the cassette and its
equipment. While developing the cassette, the group often utilized
resources and knowledge from the nearby Eindhoven location. In
1963, Philips decided to publicly introduce the cassette system at
IFA Berlin. This introduction was not immediately very widely
received and did not spark much interest among those in the audio
world. However, some photos were taken of the system, which would
later be used in the production of Japanese copies of Ottens'
system, which were notably larger in size than the original. WFA
Heylands, a Dutch civil engineer and inventor in Ottens' team at
Philips Hasselt, who graduated from TH Aachen (Germany), often
explained that the reason for Philips' break through with the
Compact Cassette, was the fact that they offered this patent and
invention for free to other manufacturers of similar hardware such
as National and Sony. Without this, the Compact Cassette, would
have never become the world standard. In 1969, Ottens became
Director of Philips Hasselt. Under his directions, the Hasselt
factory would focus primarily on producing Philips cassette
systems, with the popularity of general compact cassettes growing.
With a growing demand for compact cassettes, Philips Hasselts grew
larger, reaching an employee count of over 5000. In 1972, Ottens
became technical director of Philips Main Industry Group Audio.
While in this position, Ottens realized that laser technology
being researched in the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NatLab)
for video records could also be used to make improvements in the
field of audio. With contactless laser readout for audio, the
issue of wear and tear that was common with vinyl records and
tapes would no longer be a problem. The requirements and
implementation of this technology to audio differed greatly from
video, and research for this technology was split into two
projects: Video Long Play and Audio Long Play. The development of
the Audio Long Play, or ALP, required major changes in design when
compared to the Video Long Play. The VLP, being the size of an LP,
had space for 48 hours of music. However, Ottens recognized that
this was not a practical amount of playing time, and in 1972, he
commissioned technicians to start testing with smaller discs. The
technicians originally experimented with 17.8 cm plates, and when
those proved successful, reduced the size even further, to 11.5
cm, so that the discs would be compatible with existing car radio
systems. The laser for the ALP also had to be modified from what
was used in VLP's, as the VLP laser was too large for the design
that Ottens envisioned. Using resources from the NatLab, a new
solid state laser was developed that was smaller and more suitable
for Ottens design. However, after years of experimentation, Ottens
and his team determined that analog technology would cause too
much background noise and would not be able to compete with
gramophone records. They subsequently decided to start development
on new digital technology. As Philips' audio division did not have
adequate in-house knowledge for developing this technology, Ottens
formed a seven-person team of technicians with experience in
digital technology, two of whom came from the Natlab. In 1977,
this team developed the first test model of the digital disc. This
prompted enthusiasm from Ottens and led to his formation of a
dedicated development lab for the project, which he called the
Compact Disc Development lab. A small production facility for test
discs was created for the development lab. The first full model
was finalized by March 1979. It was presented by project lead Joop
Sinjou at a two-day press conference in Eindhoven to over 300
journalists. Immediately after the conference, Ottens and Sinjou
traveled to Japan, wanting to gain support for the compact disc
and make it a world standard. While on the trip, they reached an
agreement with Sony, who was ahead of Philips in digital
development and optical recording, but had not yet found a way to
reduce the size of their device. The companies agreed on joint
development and set a universal standard. American defense
contractors came to appreciate the compact disc's capacity to
store data, and it became integral to the fly-by-wire systems of a
majority of American fighter aircraft of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1991: March 6, 1991: The
Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Gulf War (The Persian
Gulf War, Gulf War I): The Aftermath Of The Gulf War: The 1991
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close quarters. Most of Basra had been retaken by mid March, but
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April. After Ba'athist forces had regained control, they engaged
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1930: #DOTD: Alfred von Tirpitz,
Polish-German grand admiral, Secretary Of State of the German
Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the
German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916 (b. March 19, 1849)
#dies of undisclosed causes in Ebenhausen, Bavaria, near Munich,
aged 80. He is buried in The Munich Waldfriedhof, considered the
first woodland cemetery (a cemetery where the original landscape,
with existing trees, is given much influence on the landscape
architecture of the cemetery) one of the largest and most famous
of the 29 cemeteries of Munich, known for its park-like design and
tombs of notable personalities. Alfred von Tirpitz was born Alfred
Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz, Kustrin, Province of Brandenburg,
Prussia (today Kostrzyn, Poland). Prussia never had a major navy,
nor did the other German states before the German Empire was
formed in 1871. Tirpitz took the modest Imperial Navy (German:
Kaiserliche Marine) and, starting in the 1890s, turned it into a
world-class force that could threaten Britain's Royal Navy.
However, during World War I, his High Seas Fleet proved unable to
end Britain's command of the sea and its chokehold on Germany's
economy. The one great engagement at sea, the Battle Of Jutland,
ended in a narrow German tactical victory but a strategic failure.
As the High Seas Fleet's limitations became increasingly apparent
during the war, Tirpitz became an outspoken advocate for
unrestricted submarine warfare, a policy which would ultimately
bring Germany into conflict with the United States. By the
beginning of 1916, he was dismissed from office and never regained
power. The German battleship Tirpitz, the second of two
Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine
(navy) prior to and during the Second World War, was named after
Grand Admiral Tirpitz.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1983: #DOTD: Donald Maclean,
British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five spy ring which
conveyed government secrets to the Soviet Union (b. May 25, 1913)
#dies in Moscow, USSR at the age of 69. Maclean was reported
seriously ill with pneumonia by Lucy Hodges in the December 6,
1982 edition of The Times, and was housebound after his recovery.
The Institute of World Economy and International Relations, a
Soviet government think-tank where Maclean worked as a foreign
policy analyst, reported his death to have occured on March 6
1983. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered on his parents'
grave in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Penn,
Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom (twenty years previously, Guy
Burgess's ashes had also been scattered on his family grave in
England). Donald Maclean was born Donald Duart Maclean in
Marylebone, London, the son of Sir Donald Maclean and Gwendolen
Margaret Devitt. He was a member of the Cambride Five, also know
as The Cambridge Spy Ring, a ring of spies in the United Kingdom
that passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II
and was active from the 1930s until at least into the early 1950s,
which included Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony
Blunt and, possibly, John Cairncross. The term "Cambridge"
refers to the recruitment of the group during their education at
the University of Cambridge in the 1930s. Debate surrounds the
exact timing of their recruitment by Soviet intelligence. Blunt
claimed that they were not recruited as agents until after they
had graduated. None of the known members was ever prosecuted for
spying. As an undergraduate, Maclean openly proclaimed his
left-wing views, and was recruited into the Soviet intelligence
service, then known as the NKVD. However, he gained entry to the
Civil Service by claiming to have foresworn Marxism. In 1938, he
was made Third Secretary at the Paris embassy, where he kept the
Soviets informed about Anglo-German diplomacy. He then served in
Washington, D.C. from 1944 to 1948, achieving promotion to First
Secretary. Here he became Moscow's main source of information
about US thermonuclear policy, greatly helping the Soviets to
evaluate the relative strength of their own nuclear arsenal. By
the time he was appointed head of the American Department in the
Foreign Office, Maclean was widely suspected of being a spy. The
Soviets ordered Maclean to defect in 1951, and escaped along with
Guy Burgess. In much later declassified reports, British
Intelligence denied to the heads of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) any knowledge of Maclean's activities or
whereabouts.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1904: #BOTD: #HBD! Hugh
Williams, nicknamed "Tam", British actor, playwright and
dramatist of Welsh descent (d. December 7, 1969) is #born Hugh
Anthony Glanmor Williams at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex to Hugh Dafydd
Anthony Williams (1869-1905) and Hilda (nee Lewis). Trained at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was a popular film and stage
actor, who became a major film star in the British cinema of the
1930s. In 1930 he toured America in the cast of the R.C. Sheriff
play "Journey's End" and appeared in his first film
"Charley's Aunt" during a spell in Hollywood. He then
returned to Britain and became a mainstay of the British film
industry. Made 68 film and television appearances between 1930 and
1969. Credits include "Rome Express" (1932), "Elinor
Norton" (1934), "The Man Behind the Mask" (1936),
"Gypsy" (1937), "The Dark Eyes of London"
(1939), "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" (1942), "Secret
Mission" (1942), "The Romantic Age" (1949) and
"Khartoum" (1966). During the Second World War, he
served as a Captain in "Phantom" GHQ Liaison Regiment.
He collaborated with his second wife Margarete Vyner (December 3,
1914 - October 30, 1993) on several plays, such as "The Grass
is Greener" and the screenplay for the subsequent film
(1960), starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Hugh Williams died
from an aortic aneurysm (some sources say throat cancer, aged 65,
in London, England. He is buried at Golders Green Crematorium in
Golders Green, Greater London, England.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1987: #DOTD: #RIP: Eddie Durham,
African American pioneer of the electric guitar in jazz, the first
to record an electically amplified guitar, "the most
overlooked musical genius of American music" according to
Jazz musicologist Phil Schaap, whose most indelible imprint on
popular American culture is likely as the arranger of Glenn
Miller's "In The Mood", trombonist, composer, and
arranger for the orchestras of Bennie Moten, Jimmie Lunceford,
Count Basie Glenn Miller and other top-line acts (b. August 19,
1906) #dies as a result of a fall at his daughter's house in
Brooklyn. He was 80 years old and lived in Manhattan. His burial
details are not publicly disclosed. His hometown of San Marcos
declared August 19 as "Eddie Durham Day" and in 2003
began an annual Eddie Durham Day Musical Tribute and Festival with
the long-term goal to establish a Durham Family Archival Museum
and Memorial Park. Eddie Durham Park was dedicated on August 13,
2013, in San Marcos, Texas. Eddie Durham was born in San Marcos,
Texas. With Edgar Battle he composed "Topsy", which was
recorded by Count Basie and became a hit for Benny Goodman. In
1938 Durham co-wrote "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire",
with Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus and Eddie Seiler. During the
1940s, Durham created Eddie Durham's All-Star Girl Orchestra, an
African American all female swing band that toured the United
States and Canada. From 1929, Durham started experimenting to
enhance the sound of his guitar using resonators and megaphones.
In 1935 he was the first to record an electrically amplified
guitar with Jimmie Lunceford in 'Hittin' The Bottle' that was
recorded in New York for the Decca label.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Howard
McGhee, African American jazz trumpeter (d. July 17, 1987) is
#born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, he was one
of the first bebop jazz trumpeters, along with Dizzy Gillespie,
Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for his fast
fingering and high notes. He had an influence on younger bebop
trumpeters such as Fats Navarro. During his career, he played in
bands led by Lionel Hampton, Andy Kirk, Count Basie and Charlie
Barnet. He was in a club listening to the radio when he first
heard Charlie Parker and was one of the earliest adopters of the
new style, a fact that was disapproved by older musicians like Kid
Ory. In 1946-1947, some record sessions for the new label Dial
were organized in Hollywood, with Charlie Parker and McGhee. The
first was held on July 29, 1946. The musicians were Charlie
Parker, Howard McGhee, Jimmy Bunn, Bob Kesterson, and Roy Porter.
With Parker's health near to collapse, he played "Max is
Making Wax", "Lover Man", and "The Gypsy".
McGhee continued to work as a sideman with Parker. He played on
such titles as "Cheers", "Carvin the Bird",
"Stupendous", and the landmark recording that jazz
historian Phil Schapp said was the most important and exemplary
bebop title, "Relaxin' at Camarillo". Around this time,
McGhee was a leading musician in the Los Angeles bebop scene,
participating in many concerts, recording, and even managing a
night club for a period. His stay in California ended because of
racial prejudice, particularly vicious towards McGhee as half of a
mixed-race couple. Drug problems sidelined McGhee for much of the
1950s, but he resurfaced in the 1960s, appearing in many George
Wein productions. His career sputtered again in the mid-1960s and
he did not record again until 1976. He led one of three big jazz
bands trying to succeed in New York in the late 1960s. While the
band did not survive, a recording was released in the mid-1970s.
He taught music through the 1970s, both in classrooms and at his
apartment in midtown Manhattan and instructed musicians like
Charlie Rouse in music theory. He was as much an accomplished
composer-arranger as he was a performer. McGhee died of
non-communicable disease at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City
at the age of 69. A memorial service was held for him on July 24,
1987.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1923: #BOTD: #HBD! Wes
Montgomery, African American guitarist and songwriter (d. June 15,
1968) is #born John Leslie Montgomery in Indianapolis, Indiana;
according to NPR, the nickname "Wes" was a child's
abbreviation of his middle name, Leslie. Wes Montgomery is widely
considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such
seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and
influencing countless others. Montgomery was known for an unusual
technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb which
granted him a distinctive sound. He often worked with his brothers
Buddy (piano and vibes) and Monk (bass guitar), and with organist
Jimmy Smith. Montgomery's recordings up to 1965 were generally
oriented towards hard bop, soul jazz, and post bop, while circa
1965 he began recording more pop-oriented instrumental albums that
featured less improvisation but found mainstream success. His
later-career guitar style is a major influence on fusion and
smooth jazz. Wes Montgomery died of a heart attack at his home in
the city of his birth, Indianapolis, Indiana, aged 45 years. He is
buried at New Crown Cemetery And Mausoleum in Indianapolis.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1932: #DOTD: #RIP: John Philip
Sousa, American conductor and composer of the late Romantic era
known primarily for American military marches, and Freemason (b.
November 6, 1854) #dies of heart failure at age 77 in his room at
the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was the
most famous musician in the world in his day, when he was known as
"The March King" or the "American March King"
(to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J.
Alford, who is also known as "The March King"). His many
popular marches include "The Stars And Stripes Forever",
"Semper Fidelis", "The Liberty Bell", "El
Capitan And "The Washington Post". Sousa began his
career playing violin and studying music theory and composition
under John Esputa and George Felix Benkert. His father enlisted
him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice in 1868. He
left the band in 1875 and learned to conduct. From 1880 until his
death, he focused exclusively on conducting and writing music. He
eventually rejoined the Marine Band and served there for 12 years
as director, after which he organized his own band. Sousa aided in
the development of the sousaphone, a large brass instrument
similar to the helicon and tuba. Upon the outbreak of World War I,
Sousa was awarded a wartime commission of lieutenant commander to
lead the Naval Reserve Band in Illinois. He then returned to
conduct the Sousa Band until his death in 1932. On March 15, 1881,
the "March King" was initiated to the Scottish Rite
Freemasonry in the Hiram Lodge No. 10, Washington, DC and later
became Master Mason for 51 years.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1961: #DOTD: #RIP: George
Formby, English singer, songwriter, comedian and actor who became
known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and
1940s (b. May 26, 1904) #dies of a heart attack at the age of 56
in Preston, Lancashire, three weeks after after he surprised
people by announcing his engagement to a school teacher, Pat
Howson, seven weeks after the funeral of his wife Beryl Ingham's
funeral, and two days before he was to wed Howson. He is buried in
Warrington, Cheshire, England alongside his father. Formby's
biographer, Jeffrey Richards, considers that the actor "had
been able to embody simultaneously Lancashire, the working
classes, the people, and the nation". Formby was considered
Britain's first properly home-grown screen comedian. He was an
influence on future comedians-particularly Charlie Drake and
Norman Wisdom-and, culturally, on entertainers such as the
Beatles, who referred to him in their music (their penultimate
song, "Free as a Bird", ends with a slight coda
including a strummed ukulele by Harrison and the voice of John
Lennon played backwards, saying "Turned out nice again",
the name of Formby's 1941 comedy film that became his catch
phrase). Since his death Formby has been the subject of five
biographies, two television specials and two works of public
sculpture. George Formby was born George Hoy Booth at 3
Westminster Street, Wigan, Lancashire. On stage, screen and record
he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or
banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer. George
Formby, OBE was the son of George Formby Sr, from whom he later
took his stage name. After an early career as a stable boy and
jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death
of his father in 1921. His early performances were taken
exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes
and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions - he
purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer
who became his manager and transformed his act. She insisted that
he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to
his performance. He started his recording career in 1926 and, from
1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star
by the late 1930s and 1940s, and became the UK's most popular
entertainer during those decades. The media historian Brian
McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless (lacking
sense or initiative; foolish) Lancastrian innocents who would win
through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an
attractive middle-class girl in the process. During the Second
World War Formby worked extensively for the Entertainments
National Service Association (ENSA), and entertained civilians and
troops, and by 1946 it was estimated that he had performed in
front of three million service personnel. After the war his career
declined, although he toured the Commonwealth, and continued to
appear in variety and pantomime. His last television appearance
was in December 1960, two weeks before the death of Beryl. He
surprised people by announcing his engagement to a school teacher,
Pat Howson, seven weeks after Beryl's funeral, but he died in
Preston three weeks later.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 2013: #DOTD: #RIP: Alvin Lee,
English singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known as the lead
vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After
(b. December 19, 1944) #dies from "unforeseen complications
following a routine surgical procedure" to correct an atrial
arrhythmia in Estepona, Spain, aged 68. Alvin Lee was born Graham
Anthony Barnes in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands,
England. Lee, along with bassist Leo Lyons, formed the core of the
band Ten Years After. Lee's performance at the Woodstock Festival
was captured on film in the documentary of the event, and his
'lightning-fast' playing helped catapult him to stardom. The film
brought Lee's music to a worldwide audience. Lee was named "the
Fastest guitarist in the West", and considered a precursor to
shred-style playing that would develop in the 1980s. Ten Years
After had success, releasing ten albums together, but by 1973, Lee
was feeling limited by the band's style. Moving to Columbia
Records had resulted in a radio hit song, "I'd Love to Change
the World", but Lee preferred blues-rock to the pop to which
the label steered them. He left the group after their second
Columbia LP. With American Christian rock pioneer Mylon LeFevre,
along with guests George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and
Mick Fleetwood, he recorded and released On the Road to Freedom,
an acclaimed album that was at the forefront of country rock. Also
in 1973, he sat in on the Jerry Lee Lewis double album The
Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists recorded in
London, featuring many other guest stars including Albert Lee,
Peter Frampton and Rory Gallagher. A year later, in response to a
dare, Lee formed Alvin Lee & Company to play a show at the
Rainbow Theatre in London and released it as a double live album,
In Flight. Various members of the band continued on with Lee for
his next two albums, Pump Iron! and Let It Rock. In late 1975, he
played guitar for a couple of tracks on Bo Diddley's The 20th
Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll all-star album. He finished the 1970s
with an outfit called Ten Years Later, with Tom Compton on drums
and Mick Hawksworth on bass, which released two albums, Rocket
Fuel (1978) and Ride On (1979), and toured extensively throughout
Europe and the United States. The 1980s brought another change in
Lee's direction, with two albums that were collaborations with
Rare Bird's Steve Gould, and a tour for which the former John
Mayall and Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor joined his band.
Lee's overall musical output includes more than twenty albums,
including 1987's Detroit Diesel, 1989's About Time (the reunion
album he did with Ten Years After) recorded in Memphis with
producer Terry Manning, and the back to back 1990s collections of
Zoom and Nineteen Ninety-Four (US title I Hear You Rockin'). Guest
artists on both albums included George Harrison. In Tennessee,
recorded with Scotty Moore and D. J. Fontana of Elvis Presley's
1954-1968 backing band The Blue Moon Boys, was released in 2004.
Lee's last album, Still on the Road to Freedom, was released in
September 2012.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1979: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The
Sino-Vietnamese War (The Third Indochina War): The Battle Of Lang
Son (1979): -- Communist China's People's Liberation Army (PLA)
wins a costly victory after three days of bloody house-to-house
fighting when it captures Lang Son, the capital city of Lang Son
Province in far Northern Vietnam and the northernmost point of
Vietnam's National Route 1 that leads into the heart of Vietnam's
capital of Hanoi. The PLA then took the southern heights above
Lang Son. Although the PLA managed to capture and briefly occupy
Lang Son and its nearby vicinities, the campaign was slower and
more costly than the Chinese leadership had anticipated, with the
PLA's regular units suffering heavy casualties against the
guerilla tactics of Vietnamese militia and irregular units.
According to the Washington Post, analysts described the battle as
being an important Chinese victory for capturing the Vietnamese
capital of Lang Son. "They beat the hell out of the
Vietnamese," stated one analyst in describing the battle
around Lang Son. "The Vietnamese know that; the Russians know
that. That is all the Chinese are interested in." Vietnamese
resistance being too heavily preoccupied elsewhere near Lao Cai
and Cao Bang in the middle of the front was highlighted as a
contributing factor to the Vietnamese defeat in Lang Son. Some
Bangkok analysts stated Vietnam was at least successful in keeping
their losses low by avoiding direct battles between its Hanoi
based main-force units with the Chinese forces. The
Sino-Vietnamese War ended on March 16, 1979 when Communist China's
People's Liberation Army cross back over the Vietnamese border and
returns to China after their costly victory in The Battle Of Lang
Son, the capital city of Lang Son Province in far Northern Vietnam
and the northernmost point of Vietnam's National Route 1 that
leads into the heart of Vietnam's capital of Hanoi. This Chinese
withdrawal took place days after the Chinese People's Liberation
Army (PLA) advanced 15 to 20 kilometres (9.3 to 12.4 mi) deep into
the northern provinces of Vietnam. After capturing the northern
heights above Lang Son, the Chinese surrounded and paused in front
of the city in order to lure the Vietnamese into reinforcing it
with units from Cambodia. This had been the main strategic ploy in
the Chinese war plan as Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping did not want
to risk an escalation potentially involving the Soviet Union. The
Vietnam People's Army (VPA) high command, after a tip-off from
Soviet satellite intelligence, was able to see through the trap,
however, and committed reserves only to Hanoi. Once this became
clear to the PLA, the war was practically over. An assault was
still mounted, but the Vietnamese only committed one VPA regiment
defending the city. The Sino-Vietnamese War (February 17 - March
16, 1979) began when Red China launched a surprise invasion of
northern Vietnam in response to Vietnam's successful invasion and
occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the
Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge. China quickly captured several cities
near the border, and after the fall of Lang Son on March 6, China
declared that the "gate to Hanoi" had been opened, and
that its punitive mission had been accomplished. Chinese troops
then withdrew from Vietnam. However, Vietnam continued to occupy
Cambodia until 1989, which means that China did not achieve its
goal of dissuading Vietnam from involvement in Cambodia. However,
China's operation at least successfully forced Vietnam to withdraw
some units, namely the 2nd Corps, from the invasion forces of
Cambodia to reinforce the defense of Hanoi. The conflict had a
lasting impact on the relationship between China and Vietnam, and
diplomatic relations between the two countries were not fully
restored until 1991. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union
in 1991, the Sino-Vietnamese border was finalized. Although unable
to deter Vietnam from ousting Pol Pot from Cambodia, China
demonstrated that the Soviet Union, its Cold War communist
adversary, was unable to protect its Vietnamese ally.
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Roger Price,
American humorist, author and publisher, who created Droodles in
the 1950s, followed by his collaborations with Leonard B. Stern on
the Mad Libs series who both became partners with Larry Sloan in
the publishing firm Price Stern Sloan (d. October 31, 1990) is
#born in Charleston, West Virginia, and grew up in the mining town
of Widen, West Virginia. He graduated from Greenbrier Military
School in 1934, then attended the University of Michigan
(1934-1936) and the American Academy of Art in Chicago
(1936-1938). During the 1940s, he wrote for The Bob Hope Show and
worked with Hope on a newspaper humor column. On Broadway he
performed in Arthur Klein's musical revue Tickets, Please! (1950),
and he contributed sketch material to Leonard Sillman's New Faces
of 1952. Price hosted the television panel show How To (1951), and
he was a panelist on other game shows of the early 1950s: Who's
There? What Happened? That Reminds Me, The Name's the Same and
What's My Line? In 1953, Price invented Droodles, a syndicated
feature which he described as "a borkley-looking sort of
drawing that doesn't make any sense until you know the correct
title." When Simon & Schuster published Price's Droodles
in 1953, the book launched a Droodle craze that was fueled by a
series of ads in college newspapers offering cash prizes for
Droodles created by college students. In order to promote
Droodles, Price appeared on The Steve Allen Show on December 30,
1953, just before NBC changed it the name of the show to The
Tonight Show. In 1954, Price hosted a Droodles television game
show with panelists Marc Connelly, Denise Lor and Carl Reiner.
More Droodles were gathered in follow-up books, The Rich Sardine
(1954) and Oodles of Droodles (1955). Over the years, many of the
drawings (minus the author's droll commentary) have been reprinted
in collections such as Classic Droodles. One of Price's original
Droodles serves as the cover art for Frank Zappa's 1982 album Ship
Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Price's other captions
for that drawing include "Mother pyramid feeding her baby."
In 2000, after Stern and Sloan launched another publishing
company, Tallfellow Press, they acquired the rights to Droodles
and reissued it as Droodles: The Classic Collection. Price had
four articles in Harvey Kurtzman's Mad in 1955-1956 and later
contributed to Kurtzman's 1960s magazine Help!. The same year the
Droodle was born, Price and Stern invented Mad Libs (although the
first book in the series was not published until 1958). The title
came about when the two were in Sardi's and overheard an actor
arguing with his agent. The actor wanted to "ad-lib" an
interview, but his agent thought such an approach was "mad".
According to Stern, the concept was hatched accidentally. Stern
was scripting an episode for The Honeymooners in 1953 when Price
came by. Stern recalled, "I was trying to find the right word
to describe the nose of Ralph Kramden's new boss. So I asked Roger
for an idea for an adjective and before I could tell him what it
was describing, he threw out 'clumsy' and 'naked'. We both started
laughing. We sat down and wrote a bunch of stories with blanks in
them. That night we took them to a cocktail party and they were a
great success ... We were turned down by every publisher in the
New York area. Publishers told us it wasn't a book and suggested
we approach game manufacturers, but they also rejected us and
advised us to talk to publishers. It became a well-worn path."
During the 1960s, Price opened the first New York art gallery
devoted solely to cartoons. In 1965-1967 he published and edited
the short-lived humor publication, Grump, which featured such
contributors as Isaac Asimov, Christopher Cerf, Derek Robinson,
Susan Sands, Jean Shepherd, and cartoonists Don Silverstein and
David C. K. McClelland. He was the co-creator with Stanley Ralph
Ross of the short-lived 1977 NBC situation comedy The Kallikaks,
and he also wrote for the show. Price was married four times; all
the marriages ended in divorce. He had two children with his
second wife, Bettina Lerfield. In One Head and Out the Other
(Ballantine, 1951), which popularized the catchphrase "I had
one grunch, but the eggplant over there." The nonsense non
sequitur was immediately adopted by science fiction fandom,
appearing occasionally in science fiction fanzines, as noted in
Fancyclopedia II (1959). Using the 18th-century historian Edward
Gibbon's book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a
comparison to America's upheaval in the 60's, this satirical book
compares Roman decline to America's woes. In Price's In One Head
and Out the Other, the "bible of Avoidism", his
character Clayton Slope "had a clever trick of saying any
conceivable sentence so that it sounded like 'I had one grunch but
the eggplant over there.' Fans find the expression useful, too ...
"Avoidism: Not originally fannish at all, but a philosophy
devised in a rather stomach-turning book, In One Head and Out the
Other, this doctrine became confused/associated with the
Gandhi-following folk of Eric Frank Russell's "And Then There
Were None." It inspired an APA, MYOB and an Avoidist Movement
which avoided amounting to anything. Tenets are those implied by
the root word. Lee Hoffman explains that three types of avoidism
are distinguished: 1) pure; 2) applied; and 3) active (or
Activist). In pure avoiding, one avoids everything except eating,
breathing and metabolizing. In applied avoiding, one avoids as
many things as possible. (Bus drivers are good at this sort of
thing, like avoiding people waiting at bus stops.) Active avoidism
isn't true avoidism and is practiced to Publicize the Cause, or as
an exercise in Avoiding. Under active avoidism there is the
subgroup Counteravoiding; to counteravoid vegetarianism, for
instance, one eats meat. Leeh concluded: "A last word on
Avoidism: I had one grunch but the eggplant over there." An
annoying Price dissident in In One Head and Out the Other who
crops up from time to time to object forlornly to Avoidist
doctrine in many of its guises is one Dr. Carl Gassoway, whom
Price promptly and heartlessly dismisses every time as a
troublemaker; a refreshing Price ingenue who similarly appears and
reappears is Miss Patricia Delray. In a key chapter, Price advised
mothers to encourage their offspring to adopt Avoidist habits and
responses to the tribulations of real life is to have them read,
as a nightly bedtime story, his adaptation of Prokofiev's Peter
and the Wolf (which he first wanted to use in its original form
until the composer demanded too many rubles' royalty), namely
Milton and the Rhinoceros, in which the latter triumphs by
overcoming and eating the former, whose final blunder was to
mistake the FIERCE RHINOCEROS!! (as Price instructed the mother to
shout loudly at key points in the narrative), when he first came
upon the beast, for a Studebaker. Moral: Don't go into deep
woodses! Or anywhere!" Roger Price died aged 72 in Los
Angeles, California; at the time of his death in 1990, Price lived
in Studio City, California.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1965: #DOTD: #RIP: Margaret
Dumont, American stage and screen actress (b. October 20, 1889)
#dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Hollywood, California.
She was cremated and her ashes were interred in the vault at the
Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles. Born Daisy Juliette
Baker in Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Dumont is best remembered as
the comic foil to the Marx Brothers in seven of their films.
Groucho Marx called her "practically the fifth Marx brother."
Dumont spent many years of her childhood being raised at Wren's
Nest, a National Historic Landmark Queen Anne house in Atlanta,
Georgia owned by her godfather, Joel Chandler Harris, the American
journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his
collection of Uncle Remus stories. Dumont trained as an operatic
singer and actress in her teens, and began performing on stage in
the U.S. and in Europe, at first under the name Daisy Dumont and
later as Margaret (or Marguerite) Dumont. Her theatrical debut was
in Sleeping Beauty and the Beast at the Chestnut Theater in
Philadelphia, and in August 1902, two months before her 20th
birthday, she appeared as a singer/comedian in a vaudeville act in
Atlantic City. The dark-haired soubrette, described by a theater
reviewer as a "statuesque beauty", attracted notice
later that decade for her vocal and comedic talents in The Girl
Behind the Counter (1908), The Belle of Brittany (1909) and The
Summer Widower (1910). In 1910, she married millionaire sugar heir
and industrialist John Moller Jr. and retired from stage work,
although she had a small uncredited role as an aristocrat in a
1917 film adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities. The marriage was
childless. After her husband's sudden death during the 1918
influenza pandemic, Dumont reluctantly returned to the Broadway
stage, and soon gained a strong reputation in musical comedies.
She never remarried. Her Broadway career included roles in the
musical comedies and plays The Fan (1921), Go Easy, Mabel (1922),
The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly (1923/24) and The Fourflusher (1925),
and she had an uncredited role in the 1923 film Enemies of Women.
In 1925, Dumont came to the attention of theatrical producer Sam
H. Harris who recommended her to the Marx Brothers and writer
George S. Kaufman for the role of the wealthy dowager Mrs. Potter
alongside the Marxes in their Broadway production of The
Cocoanuts. In the Marxes' next Broadway show Animal Crackers,
which opened in October 1928, Dumont again was cast as foil and
straight woman Mrs. Rittenhouse, another rich, society dowager.
She appeared with the Marxes in the screen versions of both The
Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1930). With the Marx
Brothers, Dumont played wealthy, high-society widows whom Groucho
alternately insulted and romanced for their money. Dumont's
character would often give a short, startled or confused reaction
to these insults, but appeared to forget them quickly. Dumont was
so important to the success of the Marx Brothers films, she was
one of the few people Groucho mentioned in his short acceptance
speech for an honorary Oscar in 1974. Dumont appeared in 57 films,
including some minor silent work beginning with A Tale of Two
Cities (1917). Her first feature was the Marx Brothers' The
Cocoanuts (1929), in which she played Mrs. Potter, the role she
played in the stage version from which the film was adapted. She
also made some television appearances, including a guest-starring
role with Estelle Winwood on The Donna Reed Show in the episode
"Miss Lovelace Comes to Tea" (1959). Dumont, usually
playing her dignified dowager character, appeared with other film
comedians and actors, including Wheeler and Woolsey and George
"Spanky" McFarland (Kentucky Kernels, 1934); Joe Penner
(Here, Prince 1932, and The Life of the Party 1937); Lupe Velez
(High Flyers, 1937); W.C. Fields (Never Give a Sucker an Even
Break, 1941, and Tales of Manhattan 1942); Laurel and Hardy (The
Dancing Masters, 1943); Red Skelton (Bathing Beauty, 1944); Danny
Kaye (Up in Arms, 1944); Jack Benny (The Horn Blows at Midnight,
1945); George "Gabby" Hayes (Sunset in El Dorado, 1945);
Abbott and Costello (Little Giant, 1946); and Tom Poston (Zotz!,
1962).
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Today, March 6, 2026March 6, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Pearl Buck,
also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, American novelist,
essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. June 26,
1892) #dies of lung cancer in Danby, Vermont, aged 80. After her
death, Pearl S. Buck's children contested the will and accused
Theodore Harris, to whose foundation, Creativity Inc., Buck signed
over her foreign royalties and her personal possessions to, of
exerting "undue influence" on Buck during her final few
years. Harris failed to appear at the trial, and the court ruled
in the family's favor. She is interred in Green Hills Farm in
Perkasie, Pennsylvania. She designed her own tombstone; her name
is not inscribed in English on it, instead the grave marker is
inscribed with Chinese characters representing her maiden name,
Pearl Sydenstricker. Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was born
Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia, the daughter of
missionaries. Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries,
travelled to China soon after their marriage on July 8, 1880, but
returned to the United States for Pearl's birth. When Pearl was
five months old, the family arrived in China, living first in
Huai'an and then in 1896 moving to Zhenjiang (then often known as
Chingkiang in the Chinese postal romanization system), near the
major city of Nanjing. Pearl Buck spent most of her life before
1934 in Zhenjiang. She became a noted authority on China and wrote
books which revealed the mysterious Chinese culture to Western
readers. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction
book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of
peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces".
She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature. After returning to the United States in 1935, she
continued writing prolifically, became a prominent advocate of the
rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Chinese
and Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her
efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption.
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