TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Monday, March 6, the 65th day of 2023. There are 300 days left in the year. On this date in:

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

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.

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.

1912: Oreo sandwich cookies were first introduced by the National Biscuit Co. 1933: A national bank holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, aimed at calming panicked depositors, went into effect.

1944: U.S. heavy bombers staged the first full-scale American raid on Berlin during World War II.

1964: Heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay officially changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

1970: A bomb being built inside a Greenwich Village townhouse in New York by the radical Weathermen accidentally went off, destroying the house and killing three group members.

1973: Nobel Prize-winning author

Pearl S. Buck, 80, died in Danby, Vermont.

1981: Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as principal anchorman of “The CBS Evening News.”

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