March 6

My mouth will tell of your righteousness,
of your salvation all day long, 



Psalm 71:15 NIV

March is:

American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month

March 6 is:

Michelangelo's Birthday - Michelangelo, who painted the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David and the Pfeta, was born in Caprese, Italy, in 1475. He was perhaps the world's greatest artist.

Toronto's Birthday - Toronto was incorporated as a city in 1834.

Born on this Day

• 1405: John II,King of Castile
  

• 1475: Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo
  

• 1619: Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac.
  

• 1756: Aaron Burr, dualist
  

• 1806: Poet Elizabeth Barrett (Moulton) Browning born in Durham, England.
  

• 1812: Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking.
  

• 1831: Union Army Gen. Philip Sheridan
  

• 1844: Composer Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov (Flight of the Bumble Bee)
  

• 1885: Sports reporter and humorist Ring Lardner
  

• 1905: Bandleader, composer and fiddler Bob Wills
  

• 1906: Comedian and actor Lou (Cristillo) Costello (Abbott & Costello "Who's on First?")
  

• 1927: Mercury astronaut L. Gordon Cooper
  

• 1923: TV personality Ed McMahon (The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson)
  

• 1924: Conductor Sarah Caldwell
  

• 1924: Former FBI and CIA director William Webster
  

• 1926: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan
  

• 1927: U.S. astronaut Leroy Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper
  

• 1927: Jazz guitarist Wes (John Leslie) Montgomery (Windy, Goin' Out of My Head, Wes' Tune, Sunny)
  

• 1936: Washington DC Mayor Marion S. Barry Junior
  

• 1937: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut
  

• 1937: Country singer Doug Dillard
  

• 1940: Actress-writer Joanna Miles
  

• 1941: Baseball Hall of Famer Willie 'Pops' Stargell
  

• 1942: Actor Ben Murphy (The Winds of War, The Chisholms, Time Walker)
  

• 1944: Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
  

• 1944: Singer Mary Wilson (The Supremes)
  

• 1947: Actor-director Rob Reiner
  

• 1947: Singer (Pauline Matthews) Kiki Dee (Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Amoureuse, (You Don't Know)How Glad I Am, Star)
  

• 1947: Olympic Gold Medalist Dick Fosbury (Record holder: high jump 7', 4 1/4", 1968)
  

• 1959: Actor Tom Arnold
  

• 1964: Country songwriter Skip Ewing
  

• 1968: Actress Moira Kelly
  

• 1969: Actress Amy Pietz ("Caroline in the City")
  

• 1972: Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal Taylor
  

• 1974: Country musician Shan Farmer (Ricochet)
  

• 1986: Actor Jimmy Galeota ("Michael Hays")
  

• 1986: Actor Eli Marienthal 
      
     

Events in History on this day
  

• 0203 Martyrdom of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity
  

• 0766 Death of St. Chrodegang
  

• 1204 Phillip Augustus of France captures Chateau Galliard
  

• 1428 Joan of Arc arrives at the Chateau de Chinon
  

• 1447: Death of St. Colette
  

• 1447: Election of Pope Nicholas V
  

• 1454: Casimir IV takes parts of Prussia into Poland
  

• 1480: Treaty of Alcacovas gives the Canary Islands to Spain
  

• 1515: Christian II, King of Norway and Denmark, becomes King of Sweden
  

• 1521: Magellan arrives on Guam
  

• 1531: Eugenio Torralba found guilty of sorcery, but not executed
  

• 1604: Coronation of Charles IX, King of Sweden
  

• 1612: A Tournament was held in Paris to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII, King of France
  

• 1616: Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan dramatist, dies at about 32
  

• 1622: John Mason chartered to found New Hampshire
  

• 1629: Edict of Restitution restored the property of the Catholic Church
  

• 1665: "The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" was 1st published, and is still published today.
  

• 1836: The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
  

• 1808: The first college orchestra was founded at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
  

• 1825: This may qualify as the date of the birth of what music writers like to call "Late Beethoven." On this day Beethoven's E-flat Quartet, Opus 127, was first performed.
  

• 1886: The first magazine published for nurses debuted in New York City. Tthe new publication was called "The Nightingale".
  

• 1932: John Philip Sousa died. Sousa was en route to a concert in Reading, Pennsylvania. Sousa was one of the few composers to become rich. The amount of money he earned from "The Stars and Stripes Forever" alone was equivalent to someone making Millions today.
  

• 1834: The city of York in Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.
  

• 1836: Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, killing the last of 187 defenders who had held out in the fortified mission for 13 days.
  

• 1853: Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiered in Venice, Italy.
  

• 1857: The U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling that black slave Dred Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court, even though his white master had died in a "free" state.
  

• 1933: A nationwide bank holiday declared by President Roosevelt went into effect.
  

• 1935: Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior died in Washington.
  

• 1944: U-S heavy bombers staged the first American raid on Berlin during World War Two. (A second raid took place two days later.)
  

• 1947: The ship, "The Newport News" was launched from a shipbuilding yard at Newport News, Virginia. It was the first air-conditioned naval ship.
  

• 1957: The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
  

• 1967: The daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva , appeared at the US Embassy in India and announced her intention to defect to the West.
  

• 1981: Walter Cronkite, the dean of American television newscasters, said "And that's the way it is" for the final time, as he closed the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite". An audience estimated at 17,000,000 viewers saw "the most trusted man in America" sign-off.
  

• 1982: The most points ever scored by two teams in the National Basketball Association made history this night. San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the mark.
  

• 1991: Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told a cheering joint session of Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over."
  

• 1987: 189 people died when water rushed through the open bow doors of the "Herald of Free Enterprise," causing the British ferry to capsize off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
  

• 1988: The board of trustees at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, a liberal arts college for the deaf, selected a hearing woman to be school president. (Outraged students shut down the campus, forcing the selection of a deaf president instead.)
  

• 1989: With nearly 90 percent of its pilots honoring the picket lines of striking machinists, Eastern Airlines shut down operations on all but three routes.
  

• 1990: The Soviet parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation allowing people to own factories and hire workers for the first time in nearly seven decades.
  

• 1991: Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told a cheering joint session of Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over." 
  

• 1992: Personal computer users braced for a "virus" known as "Michelangelo," set to trigger on March sixth, but only scattered cases of lost files were reported.
  

• 1993: As a standoff at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended its first week, authorities appealed publicly to David Koresh and his followers to give themselves up.
  

• 1994: Two top Clinton administration officials, Vice President Al Gore and White House adviser George Stephanopoulos, appeared on the Sunday TV talk shows to blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater.
  

• 1994: Greek actress-turned-politician Melina Mercouri died in New York.
  

• 1995: The Republican-controlled House took up business-backed legislation to alter the civil legal system over White House objections that some of the proposals were too extreme (the House passed the measure the following day).
  

• 1996: A federal appeals court struck down Washington state's ban on doctor-assisted suicide. 
  

• 1996: Lamar Alexander and Dick Lugar announced they were dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
  

• 1997: A gunman stole a million-dollar Picasso portrait ("Tete de Femme") from a London gallery. (The painting was recovered and two suspects arrested a week later.)
  

• 1997: Britain's Queen Elizabeth the Second launched the first official royal Web site.
  

• 1997: China introduced new laws to bolster its campaigns against dissent, ethnic separatism and subversive Western ideals.
  

• 1998: The Army honored three Americans who risked their lives and turned their weapons on fellow soldiers to stop the slaughter of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.
  

• 1998: A Connecticut state lottery accountant shot to death three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.  
  

• 1999:  The emir of Bahrain (Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa), a key Western ally who had ruled for nearly four decades, died shortly after a meeting with Defense Secretary William Cohen; he was 65.
  

• 2000: Three white New York City officers were convicted of a cover-up in a brutal police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. 
  

  2000: Eric Clapton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time; among the newest honorees were James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Earth, Wind and Fire. 
  
  

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