TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS TUESDAY, MARCH 6, the 65th day of 2018. There are 300 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell as Mexican forces led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna stormed the fortress after a 13-day siege; the battle claimed the lives of all the Texan defenders, nearly 200 strong, including William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
In 1475, Italian artist and poet Michelangelo was born in Caprese in the Republic of Florence.
In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, ruled 7-2 that Scott, a slave, was not an American citizen and therefore could not sue for his freedom in federal court.
In 1933, a national bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed at calming panicked depositors went into effect.
In 1944, U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.
In 1967, the daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, appeared at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi and declared her intention to defect to the West. Singer-actor Nelson Eddy, 65, died in Palm Beach, Fla.
In 1970, a bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village townhouse by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.
In 2016, former first lady Nancy Reagan died in Los Angeles at age 94.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Former FBI and CIA director William Webster is 94. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is 92. Dancer-actress Carmen de Lavallade is 87. Actresswriter Joanna Miles is 78. Actor Ben Murphy is 76. Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and singer Mary Wilson (The Supremes) are 74. Rock musician Hugh Grundy (The Zombies) is 73. Rock singer-musician David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) is 72. Actress Anna Maria Horsford, actor-director Rob Reiner, singer Kiki Dee and Fox News reporter John Stossel are 71. Rock singermusician Phil Alvin (The Blasters) and sports correspondent Armen Keteyian are 65. Actor Tom Arnold is 59. Actor D.L. Hughley and country songwriter Skip Ewing are 54. Actor Shuler Hensley and actress Connie Britton are 51. Actress Moira Kelly is 50. Actress Amy Pietz is 49. Rock musician Chris Broderick (Megadeth) is 48. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Shaquille O’Neal is 46. Rapper Bubba Sparxxx is 41. Rapper/ producer Tyler, the Creator is 27. Actress Millicent Simmonds (Film: “Wonderstruck”) is 15.